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Friday, January 30, 2009

Recruiting rundown: The final weekend

With six days until National Signing Day, Auburn is hoping for one final home run recruiting weekend. The Tigers are at 24 commitments for 2009 and will host a handful of big-name recruits this weekend.

(Yes, that's Uncle Sam to the right. We like to keep a pro-American slant to War Eagle Extra, unlike some other blogs we can think of.)

The fine folks at AuburnSports.com have been all over the weekend visitor list and really put us newspapers in our place when it comes to this recruiting business.

Here's a sampling of some of the players they say will be here. I'll throw them into star categories:

5-star
  • WR Rueben Randle, 6-3, 195, Bastrop, La.: The top wide receiver recruit in the country will visit, but he's already told Rivals that he's narrowed his list to Alabama, LSU and Oklahoma.
4-star
  • DT Corey Gaines, 6-0, 274, Tallahassee, Fla.: Rivals says Ole Miss is the frontrunner for Gaines, but he's also visisted Arkansas and will now try Auburn.
  • RB David Oku, 5-10, 186, Midwest City, Okla: A Tennessee commit who is looking at all his options. Rated as the No. 1 all-purpose back in the country by Rivals.
  • CB Taikwon Paige, 5-10, 175, Aiken, S.C.: Has spent the last two years at Georgia Military College. Originally committed to Minnesota when Auburn defensive coordinator Ted Roof was there.
  • OL Aubrey Phillips, 6-6, 310, Olive Branch, Miss.: Another Tennessee commit. He's high school teammate with Auburn's most recent commit, safety Daren Bates.
3-star
  • DT Nick Fairley, 6-4, 295, Mobile, Ala.: The junior college transfer has already signed a letter of intent, but according to the Press-Register, he is not currently enrolled because he didn't meet the deadline for completing a course.
  • LB Greg King, 6-3, 200, Memphis, Tenn.: Had to postpone his trip from last weekend. He's drawn interest from Tennessee and Texas Tech recently.
  • QB Clint Moseley, 6-4, 200, Leroy, Ala: Alabama's Mr. Football committed Jan. 18. It'll be interesting to hear his thoughts now that Auburn also added four-star Sulphur Springs, Texas, QB Tyrik Rollison to its class.
2-star
  • DB Daren Bates, 5-11, 195, Olive Branch, Miss.: As mentioned before, he committed yesterday.

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