Friday Night Notes: Michigan’s 5-Star Visitors & Colorado’s QB Targets
Greg Biggins, 247 Sports
No program has made more gains in the past six months than Colorado. Since hiring Deion Sanders as their head coach, the Buffaloes have been on a historic hot streak of recruiting and transfer portals. As a result, tickets to their regular season home games are sold out for the first time in decadesand expectations for the team are sure to rise dramatically in 2023.
However, this program had a deep hole to climb out of and still has a lot of work to do before they are ready to compete with true Power 5 contenders. At the top of the list, they will need to recruit more firepower and depth at the – the critical position in the game.
For the foreseeable future, the Buffs will start Coach Prime’s son, Shedeur Sanders, at quarterback. He is a four-star recruit in the 2021 class who is one of several players following Prime from Jackson State.
After Sanders, however, there is no clear line of succession at QB.
With a view to changing this, Colorado offered two of the top quarterbacks in the 2025 class.
First, there’s Orange Lutheran (Calif.) four-star quarterback TJ Lateef. He is listed at 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds and is ranked ninth among QBs in his class. Lateef is also ranked #17 in California and #148 nationally in his class.
Lateef also has offers from Georgia, Miami, Arizona, Arizona State, Boston College, Cincinnati, Florida State, Texas A&Mand Indiana. There seems to be no clear favorite, as an On3 prediction model has Arizona State as a very slight favorite at just 12.1%, followed by Arizona at 10.6%. Oregon State is next at 9.1% and Colorado is currently at 7.6%.
The other sophomore they offered is Murrieta Valley (Calif.) four-star quarterback Bear Bachmeier. Bachmeier (6-foot-1, 205 pounds) is ranked just one spot lower than Lateef at his position, No. 19 in the state and No. 165 in the nation.
Thirteen other programs have made offersincluding Purdue, Oregon, Miami, Kansas and Stanford. There’s no real leader here either, with On3 projecting San Diego State as the 11.3% favorite.
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