Vance Spafford

But I mean, this is a kid that I watched make a lot of NFL throws at Mission Viejo.

And, you know, he had a habit of connecting really, really nicely with Vance Spafford on those deep balls.

So, I mean, they're, you know, he, I mean, USC might get beat on some of that.

You know, look, USC's had the ability to make quarterbacks that we consider average look really, really good.

You saw Samori Wingo make some plays.

Vance Spafford got in there as well.

Mueller caught the touchdown.

Briggs caught his first pass, I believe his first pass, or caught a very important pass early in the game.

Right.

So I think he's going to be in the mix next year and, I'll admit Vance Spafford is a little better than I expected.

There's something there, but then there's other guys, right? So I'm just curious, like, what do you like next? It's exciting to think about, and we should always focus on this year, but like next year's the potential of next year's receiving core with potentially those three guys joining the team.

It's crazy to think about what the talent could be at receiver next year compared to what Mario Cristobal inherited.

It's always a scary thing when you have out-of-state guys in the portal.

Here's what I'll say.

If a guy like Vance Spafford, who I think can help us this year – forget next year.

I think he can help us this year, and he's starting to – I hope he's not thinking, oh, Nick Lanier's coming.

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.

And really, I think he was on a lot of people's radar because he's from Mission Viejo, which is down in Orange County.

And not like a wow trades guy or whatever, but he had an elite slot receiver, Vance Spafford, who a lot of people were looking at.

And so they saw him too.

And Ohio State took him.

Boobie Fiester, though he is getting close.

Davian Gross, Vance Spafford, Jermaine Bishop Jr.

Those were all wide receivers in our top 10 who have yet to cross a year one zero theory threshold.

Now again, some of those guys are getting close, not just, not ...

Marlon Perez, another receiver, 54 pa- snaps.

Vance Spafford, one of the fastest dudes that I've ever watched on film.

I've got him doing 4.35 running right at me.

That kid can float.