Tag: Miles Frazier

LSU is closing in on one transfer portal option from FIU

One transfer portal addition could help the offensive line immediately.

Offensive line coach Brad Davis and head coach Brian Kelly have work to do in figuring out who starts next season. The LSU offensive line was one of the worst units a season ago. According to PFF, the Tigers were 70th in run blocking. They allowed 38 sacks in 2021, the second-most allowed in the SEC. Only the Tennessee Volunteers were worse.

LSU hosted Florida International offensive lineman Miles Frazier, who is in the transfer portal. If the Tigers want to improve an offensive line that struggled mightily in 2021, Frazier should be a top priority.

Frazier is down to three schools with Florida State, Ohio State, and the Tigers. He would likely slide right into a starting spot among the offensive line, especially with Austin Deculus exiting after starting 60 games for LSU. His addition would likely be on the right side and put incoming freshman Will Campbell in a battle at left tackle. Being the more experienced tackle, Frazier might slide to the left to protect the blindside since the Tigers won’t have a left-handed quarterback with Max Johnson transferring.

Frazier revealed his top three destinations on Monday evening:

The Tigers have three commitments on the offensive line with Campbell, Bo Bordelon, and guard Emery Jones. Along with Deculus, starting center Liam Shanahan, and guard Ed Ingram will also be leaving the team following the Texas Bowl against Kansas State. Often injured Chasen Hines could return for another year with the extra year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 season in 2020.

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Miles Frazier discusses why he left FIU, what he wants in a new program

Miles Frazier opens up on why he’s leaving FIU and what he is looking for in a program.

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Miles Frazier is one of the hottest names in the transfer portal right now, the former FIU offensive lineman is looking to make an impact immediately for wherever he ends up. He also wants a place that will give him support.

Something, Frazier says, that he didn’t necessarily feel he got at FIU, leading him to transfer.

“So to make a long story short, when I had committed here after prep school when I had signed a National Letter of Intent, my offensive line had left,” Frazier told ‘Rutgers Wire.’

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“At that point, I still had a good relationship – with my head coach and the offensive coordinator, I think but I wasn’t really versed about the issue of my coach leaving so I stayed away. I’ve been here for two years, played 17 games here. I would never regret going here for anything. But I feel as though as a program, the coaches are great coaches. But the administration and university – they don’t give us the tools to succeed at the highest level. So that was the first part of the reason. The second part of the reason: I’m trying to look I’m trying to find a program that would be the best…where I can help them win a championship, bowl games, those games and they can help me develop as a man outside of football…as a person, like as a football player.

“And last but not least, I want a degree that really holds weight in society and in the world.”

As of Tuesday night, Frazier held 25 offers and was expecting at-home visits this week from Arizona State and Florida State. From Camden, N.J., Frazier will take an unofficial visit this weekend at Rutgers.

He is planning on visiting North Carolina and North Carolina State next weekend.

The type of program doesn’t matter too much to Frazier nor does location. Support and environment are very important to him. And it doesn’t matter to him if it is a winning team or a rebuilding program.

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“Either winning programs or helping a team. I like a challenge, but at the same time I’m all about winning in like my mindset,” Frazier said.

“So with different teams and me I’m definitely looking for playing time and perhaps starting on next school, and I don’t want anything given to me. I would like to earn it so basically like either way, like even if the program has losing and I can try to help rebuild, or even if they have been winning, and I can help them continue to have success. I definitely want to definitely start, to compete and start where I can help.”

Miles Frazier talks transfer portal, Rutgers visit this weekend and schools showing interest

Rutgers football will be getting a visit from Miles Frazier this weekend.

 

Miles Frazier is listening to all offers coming his way, the FIU offensive lineman now with 25 offers after entering the transfer portal this week.

The Camden, N.J. prospect, who had just five offers coming out of high school and 13 offers after finishing a post-graduate year, tells ‘Rutgers Wire’ that he will be visiting Rutgers this weekend for an unofficial visit. Frazier was offered by Rutgers on Tuesday afternoon.

He said that within five minutes of entering the portal, a Rutgers assistant coach reached out to him. Talk about efficiency.

In fact, Rutgers was the first school to make contact with him. Then assistant coach Fran Brown made the next contact.

“And then I know coach Fran – he’s from where I’m from. He recruited me at Temple and I know him as well. So I got on the phone with him for the past two days,” Frazier told ‘Rutgers Wire.’

“I got on the phone with the offensive line coach yesterday, coach Fran and the offensive coordinator and today I got on the phone with all three of them and coach Schiano. And then he offered me.”

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Frazier hopes to make a decision in or around Christmas time.

Last season as a redshirt freshman, Frazier made 12 starts for FIU.

 

Of the programs that have offered, Frazier says that Florida State, Rutgers, Arizona State, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Miami, Virginia and Syracuse. He doesn’t have any favorites right now even as things are beginning to heat up for him.

Florida State, Iowa State and Arizona State are planning visits for him at his house. The following weekend, he hopes to make unofficial visits at North Carolina and North Carolina State while down in the area for his brother’s graduation.

The Rutgers offer does have certain appeal for the fact that Frazier is from south Jersey. But location isn’t the only factor for Frazier.

“Right now I’m weighing my a lot because like how much growth I feel like I’ve had coming down south,” Frazier said. “But at the end of the day, I’m a Jersey guy. I got a Jersey tattoo. I look forward to breaks from school to go home, see my family for that so so it is appealing, but I’m still open to going anywhere.”

In terms of what he is looking for, he’s looking for fit as well as support. It doesn’t matter, he says, if a program is established or rebuilding. Location doesn’t matter.

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Fit does.

“Basically, a place that can help me develop as a human being and a player. I love competition, I love working. So, really, I’m ready to work anywhere I go,” Frazier said.

“A lot of schools have told me their o-line situation and I’m just trying to help a team. If they’re not winning yet, then win and get to a bowl game or championship. Because to turn that up, the players on the team as well as myself get noticed by NFL scouts. What we didn’t have at FIU, we’d have the university have the football team’s back.”