One of the top offensive linemen in the nation was offered by Rutgers football on Monday. Owen Strebig, the top recruit in Wisconsin in the 2025 class, saw Rutgers officially join his recruitment.
Strebig is a 6-foot-8, 290-pound offensive lineman from Catholic Memorial (Waukesha, Wisconsin).
He is the No. 135 player in the ESPN 300 and is ranked the No. 17 offensive tackle in the country.
His offer list is impressive and includes Florida, Florida State, Illinois, Miami, Michigan, Notre Dame and Wisconsin among others. This past weekend, he was on an unofficial visit to Notre Dame
Strebig posted about the offer on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. He tagged Rutgers head coach [autotag]Greg Schiano[/autotag] and tight ends coach [autotag]Andrew Aurich[/autotag]:
Thankful to receive an offer from Rutgers! @GregSchiano @Coach_Aurich #CHOP 🪓 pic.twitter.com/C4U2P0b6cQ
— Owen Strebig (@OwenStrebig) January 22, 2024
Rutgers has the benefit of using [autotag]Pat Flaherty[/autotag] as a recruiting weapon in their pursuit of blue-chip offensive linemen.
Flaherty spent over two decades in the NFL as an offensive line coach, most famously reshaping and remaking the New York Giants offensive line into a unit that was dramatically improved and won two Super Bowl titles.
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Now in his second season back at Rutgers, Flaherty did an incredible job in 2023 as he re-made the offensive line into a solid Big Ten unit. Rutgers, as an offense, went from the bottom of the Big Ten in nearly every statistical category into the middle of the conference’s rankings.
The jump was made in large part due to Flaherty’s tremendous job in improving the offensive line.