Recent history suggests Mississippi's five-star RB Cam Akers will stay close to home
While several of the nation’s elite football programs anxiously await Cam Akers’ college decision, recent history suggests Florida State will be pulling off a small miracle if it can pray the five-star running back away from home.
If you go by 247Sports’ Mississippi state high school player recruiting rankings, Mississippi or a neighboring state has not lost a four or five-star prospect to an outside football program since 2007 – when four-star running back Lee Chambers left the Magnolia State for Miami.
During that span, 69 players have chosen to stay in-state or play at a neighboring SEC program:
Mississippi has produced 69 4/5star recruits from 2007-2016. Just 1 has gone to school outside of Miss or a neighboring state. 0 since 2008.
— Brendan Sonnone (@BSonnone) December 22, 2016
Akers recently announced he would be committing Dec. 27 between Ole Miss, Florida State, LSU, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. While the Rebels and the Seminoles are the perceived favorites to land his services, Akers and those closest to him have kept nearly everyone in the dark on his recruitment.
If history repeats itself, the real players in Akers recruitment would be Ole Miss, LSU, Tennessee and Alabama. By this time next week, we’ll know if Akers has become the latest elite prospect to stay close to home, or if he’s decided to buck the trend and leave his home state for the next few years.
Mississippi is your HOUSE and it needs PROTECTING! Keep your natural-born, southern hellraising here at home! HYDR
And miss bowl games for the next two to three years while playing with walk ons.
You mean possibly miss a bowl game, and play with Shea Patterson and stud WRs. He would be the missing piece to an already elite offense.
We will all know more after the start of the new year or atleast that’s what Bjork said.
As per his Twitter, Akers said he will announce his decision on Dec. 27th.
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For some reason I seriously doubt he picks Ole Miss. He originally committed to Alabama so I’m thinking he wants to win titles. Though, when Najee Harris committed, he broke that commitment with Bama probably because he didn’t want to be a no.2 RB in the same class. It’ll probably be FSU, but for some reason I think he pulls a stunner and picks UT. Maybe Ole Miss will get him, who knows. He and Shea Patterson would be hard to stop running the ball, and with Ole Miss getting better o-linemen and having some good WR’s it’ll be a hard offense to stop. Should’ve left that red shirt on Shea with them not getting to a bowl game. Won the Sugar last year, and despite losing to FSU and Alabama early, looked like they’d be Sugar bound again. Weird season for Ole Miss. There’s gonna be some good Egg Bowls when these two QB’s for both teams are only gonna get better.
If he goes to Ole Miss, it’s probably because money talks. Laremy Tunsil ended all doubt there.
So what? Money’s awesome.
Ole miss problems aren’t with their offense. It is about the very bad defense. They will as equally bad next year.
I don’t disagree with you, but for the life of me I can’t understand what happened our offense when halftime hit. There are kinks to work out on both sides, though I agree they are mainly defensive.
He has a very interesting choice to make. He can choose Ol Miss but the very big question for him will be – Does he want to be another LF. He stayed at home and lost any chance at a Heisman and had a mediocre career. No rings, Championships, but only the memory of his 30 and 40 yd games against Bama. Y’all may be missing the boat with all this homer BS. Remember when Henry was not even considered a good RB talent and Fournette was going to walk on water and win Championships and multiple Heismans at LSU. That staying home and being a failure in college doesn’t look very good without those rose colored glasses Les used to sell that load of BS.
There is always a Cinderella story. Maybe it’s Ole Miss. he may choose Bama but he’s looking at waiting Awhile for his turn. He has said he wants to play early. He’s all but gaurented a starting spot right away at Ole Miss
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