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How 2023 Husker football commits are faring so far

If the Huskers can hang onto this group of commits, the future looks bright.

Despite the loss of former head coach Scott Frost, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have 13 commits in their upcoming recruiting class. That bunch have been putting up strong numbers so far with most states’ high school football seasons just past the midway point.

Leading the way in Nebraska’s class of 2023 are 4-star recruits Omarion Miller, a 6-foot-2 wide receiver out of North Caddo (Vivian, LA) High School and Riley van Poppel, a 6-foot-4, 270-pound interior offensive lineman from Argyle (Argyle, TX) High School.

Both are ranked in the top 30 nationally at their position, according to 247 Sports, but they are far from the only future Huskers making an impact. Obviously, the world of recruiting is never 100% stable, especially after the firing of a head coach, so Mickey Joseph and the rest of the Huskers coaching staff will need to have good conversations with their commits to ensure they plan to stay.

Each recruit’s highlights and stats (if applicable and available), are listed below:

Marquee Performance for Nebraska Recruit on Friday Night

The wide receiver put huge numbers under the Friday Night Lights!

One of the top prospects in the Nebraska recruiting class of 2023 had a dominant high school football performance on Friday night. Wide Receiver Omarion Miller of North Caddo High out of Vivian, Louisiana, put up a performance that ended with seven catches, 243 yards, and three touchdowns. He also added a 99 kickoff return for a touchdown. Miller is currently one of Nebraska’s only four-star prospects in the class of 2023. He initially committed to Nebraska on July 5th and recently reaffirmed his commitment in a tweet sent on September 14th. Miller picked a great night for a marquee performance as Nebraska Interim Head Coach Mickey Joseph was in attendance for the big game on Friday night.

Let’s Talk About It: How is ‘Recruiting the Boot’ going for LSU?

Coach Brian Kelly has silenced much of the criticism surrounding his in-state recruiting.

For the past few months, there have been many posts on social media and football message boards about how LSU coach [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] was not doing a great job recruiting the best players from Louisiana. So, we’re going to take a look into how well the Tigers are doing when it comes to ‘Recruiting the Boot’.

Of the top 15 recruits in Louisiana for the class of 2023, LSU currently has five commits ([autotag]Shelton Sampson Jr.[/autotag], [autotag]Kaleb Jackson[/autotag], [autotag]Kylin Jackson[/autotag], [autotag]Rickie Collins[/autotag] and [autotag]Tyree Adams[/autotag]) and they have  Crystal Ball projections for two more ([autotag]Zalance Heard[/autotag] and [autotag]Khai Prean[/autotag]).

If you go back one more spot, LSU could possibly land eight out of the top 16 players in the state — [autotag]Trey Holly[/autotag], another LSU commit, is No. 16 on the list.

Sure, Kelly missed out on some of the top prospects like [autotag]Arch Manning[/autotag], [autotag]Derek Williams[/autotag], [autotag]Eli Holstein[/autotag] and [autotag]Tackett Curtis[/autotag], but this isn’t Pokémon.

You aren’t going to catch them all.

Landing 50% of the top 16 players in the state is a very high clip. It’s also a lot more than anyone else has in your state. Out of the top 16 players, LSU could land eight while Texas has two (Manning and Williams). Alabama ([autotag]Eli Holstein[/autotag]), USC ([autotag]Tackett Curtis[/autotag]), Notre Dame ([autotag]Jaiden Ausberry[/autotag]), Nebraska ([autotag]Omarion Miller[/autotag]), Tennessee ([autotag]Jordan Matthews[/autotag]), and Washington ([autotag]Curley Reed[/autotag]) each have one.

No, it has not been a perfect recruiting cycle, but, in my opinion, it has been pretty successful.

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Opinion: Brian Kelly’s Louisiana recruiting earns stamp of approval

With Shelton Sampson Jr. on board, Kelly has eased concerns about in-state recruiting.

I have never been Brian Kelly’s biggest defender nor his biggest critic.

I’ve always said he is a competent coach who will win a handful of football games wherever he is. He isn’t Nick Saban, but then again, who is?

I think too much was made about how Kelly fit at LSU. Lincoln Riley is from Lubbock, Texas, and nobody made a fuss when he ended up in Southern California.

We also watched Saban and Les Miles win championships at LSU. Neither one of those guys screams Louisiana. If you win football games, people don’t really care about where you’re from, and Kelly has won a lot of football games.

There were questions on how he’d fare recruiting Louisiana. Some of that was because there was all that noise about the culture fit, and some of it was because he’s never been seen as an ace recruiter.

The first few months were iffy. It was a challenge to gain momentum with recruits during the transition. LSU watched as other schools made progress with top recruits like [autotag]Derek Williams[/autotag] and [autotag]Tackett Curtis[/autotag]. Longtime commit [autotag]Omarion Miller[/autotag] flipped and followed [autotag]Mickey Joseph[/autotag] to Nebraska.

LSU was having success nationally, but I wanted to see more success in Louisiana. Over the last month or so, Kelly has eased any criticism I had on that front.

LSU pulled in commitments from Louisiana prospects OT [autotag]Tyree Adams[/autotag] and RB [autotag]Kaleb Jackson[/autotag].

The big one came on Saturday when WR [autotag]Shelton Sampson Jr.[/autotag] gave his pledge and LSU got one of it’s biggest targets.

Sampson was a guy LSU could not miss on. A five-star receiver from Baton Rouge. If Kelly couldn’t seal the deal here, his critics were going to have a field day.

LSU has been building steam with OT [autotag]Zalance Heard[/autotag]. A big-time prospect from Monroe, Louisiana, who On3 has as a five-star.

Baton Rouge quarterback [autotag]Rickie Collins[/autotag] recently decommitted from Purdue and looks destined to end up a Tiger. Safety [autotag]Kylin Jackson[/autotag] received a 247Sports Crystal Ball to LSU earlier this month.

When it’s all said and done, LSU is going to have a solid class of Louisiana recruits. The Tigers still need to show improvement on the field, but Kelly has done a lot with less talent than he has now.

A decent season should have LSU in a good position to run the state in 2024.

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Huskers land 4-star receiver from Louisiana

Scott Frost and company received a big commitment on Tuesday afternoon.

Nebraska made huge waves on Tuesday afternoon when the Cornhuskers received the commitment from 4-star prospect Omarion Miller. The receiver from Vivian, Louisiana, is the third wideout to commit to the Huskers for the class of 2023 and will join Jaidyn Doss and Barry Jackson in Lincoln next season. When looking deeper at the 2023 recruiting class, five of the 12 recruits are in-state, with eight of the twelve playing on the offensive side of the ball. 

It was just one month ago that Miller de-committed from the LSU Tigers and reopened his commitment. He was initially recruited to LSU by current Husker’s receiver coach Mickey Joseph. Miller chose Nebraska over other power five programs such as LSU, Arkansas, and Miami. 

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Nebraska target returning to Baton Rouge for a visit

Nebraska target WR is heading back to the Bayou for a visit.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers recently hosted and offered former LSU commit Omarion Miller.

Mickey Joseph could land a commitment from the North Caddo wide receiver but they are battling with his old team. Originally Miller committed to the LSU Tigers on Aug. 2, 2021, but then backed off his pledge. Currently, the Huskers are trending for Miller but that isn’t going to slow down the efforts of the Tigers.

Per Sam Spiegelman of On3Sports, Miller is heading back to the Bayou for another visit with Brian Kelly’s staff. The four-star wide receiver from Louisiana decommitted from LSU on May 30. Three days after his visit to Omaha on Jun. 3, he received an offer from Scott Frost and Mickey Joseph.

Not only is Nebraska the favorite according to On3, but Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports also put in a crystal ball prediction for the Huskers. The relationships that Joseph built in Louisiana during his stint with the Tigers could surely pay off.

The Cornhuskers have seen success lately with winning battles on the recruiting trail, perhaps this could be another one in the favor of Frost and Nebraska.

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Four-star wide receiver decommits from LSU

LSU’s 2023 class took a hit on Monday afternoon.

LSU’s 2023 recruiting class suffered a hit on Monday when four-star receiver prospect [autotag]Omarion Miller[/autotag] announced that he’d be re-opening his recruitment.

Miller stuck with LSU through the coaching change, and at one point, he was the only commit LSU had in its 2023 class. He committed when [autotag]Mickey Joseph[/autotag] was the wide receiver’s coach. Joseph is now at Nebraska, where Miller is soon visiting.

According to 247Sports, Miller is the seventh-best player in Louisiana. In his announcement on Twitter, Miller wrote that he remains interested in LSU but is using this time to check out some other programs. Miller is one of three 2023 blue-chip wide receivers in the state of Louisiana.

[autotag]Shelton Sampson Jr.[/autotag], who attends Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, is a five-star and one of the top pass catchers in the country. Then there’s [autotag]Khai Prean[/autotag], who is listed as an athlete on recruiting sites but refers to himself as a wide receiver in his Twitter bio.

LSU has been gaining momentum on the recruiting trail lately, and Miller’s decommitment is a small setback. Brian Kelly’s staff will still need to respond considering that wide receiver is expected to be a need in next year’s class.

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Brian Kelly will make LSU more competive on the recruiting trail for 2023

Can LSU get back to a top-five class in the 2023 cycle?

After the dust had settled on the 2022 recruiting class, LSU head coach Brian Kelly had secured a top-six class in the overall rankings. As far as the class itself, Kelly was able to get as high as No. 12 according to On3’s team rankings.

The top signees include a late get from Harold Perkins, as he returns to his home state to play for the Tigers. The No. 2 rated linebacker could see some early playing time in Baton Rouge. The team lost their defensive captain in Damone Clark to the NFL as well as Bug Strong to the transfer portal. Can Perkins pass up Mike Jones Jr on the two-deep is the real question?

Plenty of time before we get too far into those discussions, let’s focus on the task at hand, shall we?

Tiger fans couldn’t have asked for much better with the transition class under Brian Kelly. Yes, missing on TreVonte’ Citizen, Jacoby Mathews, Caleb Douglas, and Danny Lewis Jr isn’t great. However, the team did secure a very good class considering that the new head coach has been on the job less than three months.

Let’s reset with the upcoming 2023 class. Currently, the Tigers have just one commitment with four-star wide receiver Omarion Miller of Vivian. Plenty of work still to be done. Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports expects Kelly to be a major player for the Tigers with this next class.

While new LSU coach Brian Kelly doesn’t have the reputation of being a nine-inning guy on the trail, he is certainly embracing the role at the helm in Baton Rouge and has always been considered one of college football’s best living room guys. Landing five-star linebacker Harold Perkins on National Signing Day was as big a win any program had Wednesday. The Tigers had three-straight top five recruiting classes prior to coming in at No. 12 in 2022.

Of course, you can’t mention the 2023 cycle without bringing up Louisiana’s crown jewel, Arch Manning. Everyone seems to be trying to get into the ear of the Manning family scion. He is the No. 1 overall recruit of the class and the top schools chasing Manning are widely known.

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The New Orleans (La.) Isidore Newman blue-chipper has Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss and Texas near the top of his list. Manning visited both in the summer and returned to each campus for a game during the fall. The next step in his process will be trying to get out and see some of his teams participate in spring practice and get a feel for what that looks like.

Beyond the programs mentioned, new LSU coach Brian Kelly went into the school as the Tigers try and gain ground. Ohio State quarterback coach Corey Dennis has been in touch for awhile.

Buckle up folk, this could get wild on the trails.