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Utah Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham claps with his team after their loss to the TCU Horned Frogs at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. The TCU Horned Frogs defeated the Utah Utes 13-7. | Brice Tucker, Deseret News
A signing-day commitment from four-star running back Raycine Guillory headlined Utah’s 21-player recruiting class on Wednesday.
Guillory chose Utah over Ole Miss and a lengthy offer sheet that included Texas, TCU, Miami, Georgia, Michigan, Notre Dame, Oregon, Ohio State and USC, among others, in a Wednesday evening commitment ceremony in front of friends and family at Aledo High in Texas.
The 5-foot-10, 180-pound running back, who rushed for 1,299 yards and 24 touchdowns this year, certainly has a chance to compete for playing time right away in a running back room that lost the vast majority of its production with Micah Bernard graduating.
Coach Kyle Whittingham and the Utes inked three four-star prospects, including Guillory, to head up their latest class, which currently ranks No. 38 in the nation and is No. 5 in the Big 12 Conference, per 247Sports. That’s a slight improvement from the 2023 class, which ranked No. 40 in the nation. When sorted by average recruit ranking (87.27), Utah ranks third in the conference, per 247Sports, behind only Colorado (89.22) and TCU (87.72).
Aside from Guillory, the other 247Sports composite four-stars that Utah signed are Las Vegas linebacker Christian Thatcher and Desert Hills linebacker Cyrus Polu.
Thatcher, who is ranked by 247Sports as the No. 6 player in Nevada and the No. 41 linebacker in the nation, recently became the state’s all-time tackles leader with 443 career tackles. This season, Thatcher recorded 116 tackles, 13 tackles for loss, a sack, an interception and three forced fumbles for Arbor View High.
The four-star prospect…
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Author : Deseret News
Publish date : 2024-12-05 04:24:00
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