Jalen Flowers

One of just three true 24-7 five stars at this early stage of the process.

Jalen Flowers, a top 50 talent out of California.

This is another guy who camped for Miami in the summer, returned for the weekend this is a guy who's a high priority target for will harris who is a southern california native miami's always been good for one pool out of the west coast to cycle it seems like they consistently find a guy that they would typically not get that they find a way to get dante right the most recent example out of long beach poly of course you go get eli wood or two miami's done a really good job in previous cycles you got hayden low of course it's not with the program but it was a five star out of southern california that they found a way to land You think about what they've done in the Vegas area with SJLF Atuli, with Elijah Lofton.

Guys like that, getting Vance Spafford, flipping him from Georgia.

So Miami's very familiar with the West Coast.

And Jalen Flowers is one of the top guys in this 2028 class to know.

in the state of California.

Nasir Richards, just while we're talking DBs out of Newark, New Jersey, Miami made a really strong impression.

Malik Muhammad is big time defense and from, from Texas.

Um, Jalen Flowers, a safety we really like from California.

I believe he's visited as well unofficially.

Gabriel Player, a top 100 player from Melbourne, Florida.

the offensive tackle and Jayce Sanders supposed to be there.

I did confirm that Jalen Flowers, the safety from Palos Verdes, there was some question whether he was gonna make it because of the early kickoff.

He told me last night that, you know, he will in fact be in attendance.

And actually, uh, I'll be catching up with him on Friday before he takes off for Oregon, 'cause I'm covering, uh, Inglewood at Palos Verdes.

They recruit me," unlike the previous staff to now, "Hey, I really like the staff," and they're winning and they're putting their guys in a position to win.

So, you know, when you have a guy like a Lincoln Falafi who, you know, still relatively new to football, really falls in love with UCLA early on and then he starts getting all the national attention but now UCLA's winning.

A win with him as a guest of Oregon and Jalen Flowers who proximity certainly helps UCLA but if you're Jalen Flowers and you're walking, you're watching college football, you're seeing what Oregon's doing.

You're seeing what Oregon's doing in the secondary in these last couple of classes.

I actually changed up some of the options a little more, the eight, uh, that I named.

Um, but Troy Bishop was, was the one, you know, outside, like, Jalen Flowers and, um, I think maybe he took Kuron Williams as a cornerback.

I can't remember, uh, what the three were that he kept, but Troy was definitely o- of that list, uh, the, the biggest surprise.

But I think that's a guy that's, you know, rising up, um, the, the, the recruiting board for USC, along with Jalen Flowers.

Um, you know, Gio McKnight is a player that came out here.

We haven't been able to get a hold of him, uh, from, uh, Ohio, Pickerington.

Another one of those guys that you look at and you go, "Okay, this is more of a coverage defensive back." This is not a guy you really want to play near the line of scrimmage to be a force player, to be an edge rusher, to be a guy that, you know, you're gonna depend on in, in the run game.

Um, a free safety.

And I wanted to add two other names to this discussion that Washington is very interested in.

I'm going to talk about one of them here in a second, a little bit more in depth in the Kyle Lambath and Jalen Flowers.

And so I look at that group of guys as some of the names I'm very, very interested in.

to see what happens in this recruiting cycle, because it's very clear that those are the group of guys where Michael Ramos and Jordan Sly are two from the Gourney Report that I would really, really consider watching.

And then another one that, because we talked about Nakia Lambeth on this show a little bit, we haven't necessarily dove as much into Jalen Flowers, who, top 100 guy, put Washington in his top 12 a couple of weeks ago, is someone who, you go and you look at the film, And he's somebody that I think would be a dream addition for Ryan Walters in the secondary because he's got the size, the length, the ball skills, all those buzzwords we talk about, right? To play outside corner, but he also has the range and the athleticism and the physicality necessary to play safety if need be.

And so this is one of those guys where as he narrows down his top 12 even further from a lot of the nation's elite programs, he's someone that I feel Washington is going to be making a sizable push for and to get early in this 2028 class and i apologize for not mentioning earlier that everybody we're talking about here today is a member of the class of 2028 but those are all the sorts of things that i'm very curious about when it comes to just what washington is going to be looking for because a guy like jalen flowers it also just kind of pertains to this discussion as well right of, hey, that's one of these guys where the evaluation is certainly going to be very, very high when you go in and you look at that film and what he's able to do.

And so moving forward, looking at just kind of where some of these guys might be on Washington's board as we get through their junior years and as we get into the offseason.

I'm going to be keeping a very close eye on that because Washington has done such a good job of recruiting in the secondary.

One spot, exactly.

Next on the list, Palos Frutis, four-star safety, Jalen Flowers.

Perhaps.

Perhaps.

But I had it in the back of my mind before we even started this.

If Flowers was on here, I'm taking him.

So I'm using my final spot on Jalen Flowers, which means I'm cutting the last two, whoever they may be.

Indeed you are Chris.

But now I no longer say that with offensive tackles because Ohio State has landed two premier out-of-state offensive tackles in the 27 class with Jim Kalis and with Kayden Moss from Mississippi, obviously.

So I now think it's more fun and exciting to talk about offensive line recruiting when you – Factor all that into the equation, but other West Coast standouts, Jalen Flowers, 6'2", 180 pound, safety from California was also there.

He was very complimentary.

It was his fourth time in Columbus and second time here for a game.