On Monday, Rutgers football offered Elias Coke, a class of 2026 recruit. The offer for Coke came while he was on campus for a visit with the Big Ten program.
Rutgers is now the third Big Ten offer for Coke, an impressive 6-foot-2, 190-pound athlete from Harrisburg High School (Harrisburg, PA). Last season in 14 games for Harrisburg as a wide receiver, he had 24 catches for 409 receiving yards and six touchdowns.
He currently holds Power Five offers from Boston College, Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Syracuse, Virginia Tech and West Virginia.
The offer from Rutgers to Coke detailed how the running back could potentially fit into the program’s rebuild under head coach Greg Schiano.
“They took me into the room with the head coach and I talked to him about the team, the coaching, the culture and etc. then after that he offered me,” Cook told Rutgers Wire.
“What stuck out was that the head coach and the wide receivers coach both have the same mind set and they are 100 percent staying here because they said this is their home.”
Despite his position versatility, Coke was offered by Rutgers as a wide receiver.
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He is planning over the next weeks to visit Maryland, Central Florida, TCU, Texas and Texas A&M. Coke said he is open to returning to Rutgers again.
The message and commitment from the staff, he said, stood out during the visit.
“The fact that this group of coaches made this program successful in the past, and they’re back again looking to make it even more successful than it was before,” Coke said.
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