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Rice Football Recruiting: 2023 National Signing Day Live Blog

January 31, 2023 By Matthew Bartlett

The 2023 Rice Football Recruiting class wraps up on National Signing Day. Follow all the action here as the Owls close out the class.

Like in years past, Rice football recruiting looks to close out another successful class on National Signing Day. This live tracker will follow all the latest news and updates throughout the day, with further updates on the class as its finalized. If you’re not a subscriber yet, here’s your chance.

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As we did during the Early Signing Period, we’ll have a Live Blog up and running with updates throughout the day. (Not a subscriber, we’ve unlocked this post to give you a flavor of what to expect — live updates, when we get them).

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Which newcomers are program-changing talents? Who is the diamond in the rough? More to come. For the time being, let’s dig into the latest from National Signing Day, below.

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Rice Football Recruiting: What to expect from 2022 National Signing Day

January 31, 2022 By Matthew Bartlett

The 2022 Rice Football recruiting class will be nearly complete on Wednesday. Here’s what we’re watching on National Signing Day and beyond.

National Signing Day is on Wednesday, February 2. As we did during the Early Signing Period, we’ll have a Live Blog up and running with updates throughout the day. (Not a subscriber, we’ve unlocked this post to give you a flavor of what to expect — live updates, when we get them).

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After the dust settles, there will be more. Make sure you’re subscribed to The Roost Podcast wherever you listen to your podcast and stay locked in here for further recruiting notes in the coming weeks. Our subscribers will get breakdowns of both sides of the balls well as details on how the new Owls will fit into the existing roster and who could make an immediate impact on the field this fall.

For those checking in for the first time, or those returning, a quick programming note. Recruiting updates like this are reserved for our subscribers. Get access to all practice notes, special features and more like this one when you subscribe on Patreon today.

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Rice Football Recruiting: What to expect from 2021 National Signing Day

February 1, 2021 By Matthew Bartlett

The 2021 Rice Football recruiting class will be nearly complete on Wednesday. Here’s what we’re watching on National Signing Day and beyond.

National Signing Day is on Wednesday, February 3. As we did during the Early Signing Period, we’ll have a Live Blog. (Not a subscriber, we’ve unlocked this post to give you a flavor of what to expect — live updates, when we get them).

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After the dust settles, there will be more. Make sure you’re subscribed to The Roost Podcast wherever you listen to your shows and stay tuned here for further recruiting notes in the coming weeks. Our subscribers will get breakdowns of both sides of the ball, class superlatives, details on how the new Owls will fit into the existing roster and more.

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Rice Football Recruiting: Breaking down the 2021 signees – Defense

December 18, 2020 By Matthew Bartlett

The 2021 Rice Football Recruiting class has stocked with defensive talent at all three levels from a rangy secondary to powerful additions in the front seven.

Rice signed 18 players on the first day of the Early Signing Period. Of their new additions, 16 are current high school seniors. 11 of them play on the defensive side of the ball, the focal point of this update. Subscribers can check out this position by position breakdown of the 2021 Rice Football recruiting class.

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Defensive Line (4) – Cal Varner, Jalen Hargrove, Elroyal Morris, Blake Boenisch
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Rice Football Recruiting: Owls move from “needs” to “wants” with 2021 class

December 16, 2020 By Matthew Bartlett

The 2021 Rice Football recruiting class is stocked with talent, giving the Owls the luxury to fill some “wants” instead of scrambling for “needs”.

When Mike Bloomgren took the job, he had less than a week to get as many to assemble his first pass at a recruiting class. As a result, Rice ended its first Early Signing Period with six players in the 2018 Rice Football recruiting class. That class would fill out by the time National Signing Day arrived in February, but the chief priority in those classes was bodies first, flash second.

Rice found several impact players in that first class. Treshawn Chamberlain, Clay Servin, Antonio Montero … the list of multi-year starters goes on and on. Many of those guys are still here, still contributing vital roles to this team. Because of the strong foundations they started, the Owls were able to address other needs in their 2019 and 2020 classes.

Finally, with a fresh season ahead and pandemic (hopefully soon) behind them, Rice was able to do something with its 2021 class they hadn’t had the luxury to do in some time. Move past “needs”, to “wants”.

Rice signed five players that weigh 300 or more pounds on Wednesday. They have five players that large on their roster right now. Bloomgren referred to those new additions as “great pieces of clay” that he and his staff were willing to take the time to mold. This class wasn’t about filling urgent needs right now. It was truly focused on what Rice will look like on the field in 2022 and beyond.

More: 2020 Early Signing Period Live Tracker

“There’s no guarantees in this business that just because somebody’s strong they’re going to be better. But if everything is constant and I lift 100 pounds or 200 pounds more than you, and I have 20 pounds of good weight better than you, I should win. It’s just that simple,” Bloomgren said.

He’s not wrong.

In what will forever go down as the most pivotal game of Bloomgren’s tenure to date, Rice inserted 314-pound Izeya Floyd into the starting offensive line. The converted defender helped turn a line that caved inward the game prior into a unit that produced more than 100 rushing yards against a Marshall defense that hadn’t allowed an opponent to surpass the century mark on the ground all season.

One big body doesn’t win a football game on his own. But the more chances you can take to unearth that next key cog, the better. The 2021 Rice Football recruiting class has the kind of top end talent that could play a massive role for this team quickly. The additions at linebacker are impressive. The wide receivers are going to be difference makers here.

But having the luxury to do both, to meet your current needs and expand your horizons to “wants” and “hopes”, that’s the mark of a program that’s established the baseline of talent it needs to compete. The Owls want these next pieces can raise the floor, and with it, the ceiling, too


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