Alabama lands commitment from Tuscaloosa native, 4-star 2023 offensive lineman
Alabama had an advantage when it came to recruiting 4-star 2023 offensive lineman Wilkin Formby.
Despite Nick Saban and his staff recruiting well nationally, often pulling in top recruits from California, Florida and everywhere in between, Formby calls Tuscaloosa home.
And, in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Formby took to Twitter to announce he was staying home, revealing his commitment to the hometown Crimson Tide:
Committed! I am staying home! God is undefeated! @FBCoachWolf #RollTide @adamgorney @Velocity_FB @CoachHodges @RWrightRivals @AlabamaFTBL pic.twitter.com/zMaCYstXwi
— Wilkin Formby🦍 (@wilkinformby) June 21, 2022
Per the 247Sports composite rankings, Formby is the No. 10 offensive tackle in the class of 2023 and the No. 10 overall recruit from the state of Alabama.
Alabama now has 5 players in its 2023 recruiting class, which currently ranks No. 35 in the nation, per 247Sports.
Below, check out some of Formby’s high school highlights, courtesy of Hudl:
Looks like a solid football player.
Top 100 overall prospect, great size, local boy…what’s not to love?
Side note: Alabama has a 96.06 overall player rating according to 247 Composite. Highest in CFB by a wide margin
Saban’s average player rating since 2016 (Kirby’s 1st year away) is nothing short of phenomenal. Do you know that Nick has out recruited Kirby by an average of 2.00 per player since 2016 and yet, somehow, Kirby had an overall team talent ranking that was just .10 (1001.89 vs 1001.79) below the Goat. But ol’ Kirby can’t develop talent for sure.
Oh, and I hear that Kirby won a natty with that lower talent average, led by a walk on QB. Silly, yes?
Did you know that Nick is 4-1* against Kirby in that same time frame?
Did you know that even with Jawjuhs 2022 draft class that Nick has had nearly twice as many players (23-12) drafted in the first round as Kirby?
Did you know that Nick has played for and won twice as many National Championships as Kirby during that time?
Kinda looks like there is a pretty profound gap between the two.
But keep telling yourself that one injury default “win” since the Bush Administration changes all of that Hump. I hope it makes that 50 burger Alabama is gonna feed Jawjuh taste better going down.
Bonus fun fact Hump: Kirby has signed more 5 stars at Jawjuh than any other program including Alabama since 2016…..and all it took him was 6 years, 5 games (3 on Jawjuh soil) 2 injured 1000 yard WRs, 4th and 5th string DBs and the 4th youngest team in CFB to grind out that *1-4 record.
Golf….clap
I know…right? Who in their right mind would ever think it would take a few years for a first time head coach to build a program and specifically build a bigger badder championship caliber defense than the one he built for some old guy west of here…silly us. I mean, how is it even feasible that said first time head coach didn’t achieve a better defense in his first few years at a new job calling all the shots, than a defensive machine it took him 10 years under the tutelage of a master mind coach to build into a successful plug and play model that NFL coaches droll over. Crazy huh…15 draft picks in a single season…just say wow with the rest of us Gabe, you know you want to
Besides us and aTm, does Saban have a current one game losing streak to anyone else? Asking for a friend…golf…clap
Yea…what a monumental task it must have been to “build” a program when you inherit a program thay averaged 10 wins per season for 15 years, littered with scrubs like Nick Chubb, Sony Michel, Roquan Smith, Trenton Thompson, Mecole Hardman, DeAndre Baker, Stephon Wynn etc. You know….guys your current coaches predecessor brought in who carried him to an almost-beat-Alabama season?
Yea…..that guy must be the second coming of Vince Lombardi Hump.
At least you finally realized one thing, Gabe.
Yes, Kirby did “almost beat Bama” with Mark Richt’s recruits. And when he finally got his recruits coached up and deep, he “DID” beat Bama…
But of course, I’d rather watch you bang on the Todd Rundgren drum all day that Kirby should have won everything from day 1 of his coaching career, just like Nick did, oh wait……
RE: Arch Manning. I guess Alabama’s Golden Flake money isn’t enough to beat Texas oil money. What a circus this whole college football racket has become.
NIL is closing the gap, for some now. Others will suffer, the more money these rich alum have and are willing to partner up with NIL deals the closer we get to competing with Bama. Who have been doing NIL type deals before there was one.
Way to go!!!
Built By Bama.