Recruiting Blast: USC's 2021 National Signing Day
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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In this special edition of the Peristyle Podcast, host Ryan Abraham is joined USCFootball.com national recruiting analyst Gerard Martinez to talk about USC's 2021 National Signing Day.
The Trojans bounced back with this recruiting class, jumping from a disappointing No. 64 national ranking all the way up to No. 8 in the country and No. 2 in the conference. The class was finished off in positive fashion with the signing of Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei four-star linebacker Raesjon Davis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Instant Analysis, a special edition of Instant Analysis. It's |
| 0:11.8 | National Signing Day 2021. I'm your host, Ryan Abraham, joined by Gerard Martinez. We're |
| 0:17.3 | trying to do a live show today with Gerard and Chris Trevino. We had some technical difficulties, |
| 0:22.4 | so shotgun and I end up doing a live show. You can find that on USC football.com, but we wanted |
| 0:26.6 | to talk to Gerard. Obviously, he's our national recruiting analyst. No, so much of what's going |
| 0:30.4 | on about USC football recruiting has been covering it for a very long time. Almost two decades now, |
| 0:35.9 | Gerard. Has it been that long? Yeah, 20 years. 20 years. Wow. That's a long time. But yes, |
| 0:40.8 | we've been together a long time. Very interesting class because this is the first time we didn't get |
| 0:46.7 | to see California players even play their senior year of high school. I got wet from a class rank |
| 0:52.7 | 64th in the country last year. The worst we've ever seen to number eight in the country as of |
| 0:57.7 | right now. We're going to get into what Clay Hilton said in his press conference. But overall, |
| 1:02.5 | this kind of gets your thoughts on USC's recruiting class of 2021. Yeah, I think it's a class |
| 1:09.0 | it's really built on the defense. Looking at the playmakers and the guys that you're excited |
| 1:13.5 | about seeing next year, the ones that have the potential to have contributions early on in the |
| 1:19.3 | year, I think it's mostly on the defensive side of the ball. Obviously, they do a great job, |
| 1:23.2 | Dante Williams and Craig Niver. With the defensive back class, you get six defensive backs. |
| 1:28.2 | You get five of those guys on campus earlier. Actually, four of those guys on campus, |
| 1:32.4 | early, is Amirian Gordon, who is the 6295 pound safety from Downey High School. He's going to be |
| 1:38.6 | able to come in play that strong safety position. He's going to get a run at Teleno, |
| 1:42.3 | Teleno, who fungus spot. That's going to be the big spot that's open. I think we thought coming |
| 1:47.2 | into the off season that we were going to see both of those safety spots open, but Isaiah |
| 1:51.9 | Pullamal actually comes back. It's going to be interesting to see how they shift around those |
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