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Dec. 20—MORGANTOWN — There was clear intention present in West Virginia’s 2024 recruiting class that signed with the Mountaineers on National Signing Day Wednesday morning. In the 22-man class, four signees are wide receivers, five are defensive backs and two are linebackers.
It is no coincidence that those signings match up with WVU’s weakest position groups.
Head coach Neal Brown was previously deliberate in building up the offensive and defensive lines and with those positions now in a good spot, he has turned his attention elsewhere.
“To get to where we’re at offensive line-wise, we had to be really intentional with high school recruiting and being really specific with the transfers we added to there, ” Brown said. “We did the same from a defensive line standpoint. We really had very few transfers, that was all high school and banking on the developmental process.”
Wanting to follow a similar plan for other positions, Brown began the reconstruction of the wide receiver room last year.
“It’s been a process that we’re been remaking this receiver room since we underperformed in that bowl game two years ago in Arizona, ” he said. “It wasn’t a great room, the comradery wasn’t great, the chemistry wasn’t great.”
Last year, WVU added two freshmen who played large roles this season, Rodney Gallagher and Traylon Ray, and a couple of veteran transfers, Devin Carter and EJ Horton.
The key signee Wednesday was four-star receiver Ric’Darious “Day Day ” Farmer from Melbourne, Fl. Farmer originally committed to Pitt before flipping to UCF in August. Wednesday, he flipped again, signing with the Mountaineers.
“A lot of credit to (assistant coaches) Chad (Scott) and Bilal (Marshall), they just kept on him, ‘ Brown said. “He’s got to gain weight, but he’ll play early for us.”
The other receivers signed Wednesday were Brandon Rehmann…
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Author : The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.
Publish date : 2023-12-21 03:32:00
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