SEC recruiting battle ends as lineman William Griffin-Parker announces his commitment
Go to Alabama and work to try and keep the dynasty rolling or stay home and help Tennessee build toward taking down the Tide?
That’s the decision Nashville native William Griffin-Parker faced as his recruitment came to a head and the big lineman has made his decision — he’s headed to Rocky Top to play for Jeremy Pruitt.
He announced his decision Friday live during an appearance on CBS Sports HQ.
“At the end point, it was more about the relationship with the coaches,” Griffin-Parker said of his decision.
The 6-foot-5, 325-pound Griffin-Parker plays at Pearl-Cohn in Nashville and is rated as a three-star prospect, the No. 34 offensive tackle prospect and a top 450 overall prospect in the 2021 recruiting cycle according to 247Sports Composite Rankings.
While his current ranking may not blow you away, the Nashville native holds scholarship offers from Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Louisville, Ohio State and Oklahoma, among many others.
The Pearl-Cohn standout was one of the highest-rated uncommitted prospects remaining in the Volunteer State heading into the high school football season as 247Sports Composite Rankings list Griffin-Parker as the No. 13 overall player from Tennessee.
To get an idea of what Tennessee is getting in Griffin-Parker, check out his junior season highlight reel:
Tennessee’s 2021 Recruiting Class
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UH-OH bring on corch and toadthenotsogreat. Our 3 star recruiting machine is on a roll.
Well, you have 14 3-star commitments in this class alone, over half.
That’s like more than UGA, Alabama, Clemson or Ohio State have had in their last 3 recruiting classes combined.
You could of just said Corch, they’re the same person.
So is the 25 limit a thing of the past, or is someone about to get processed before signing day?
yeah Ive been saying this ever since we got hammered by everyone about our recruiting ranking and the amount of 3 stars we have. It barely September. Pruitt went out like most coaches and offered hundreds and got a bunch of unexpected early commits. Now he has a bit of a luxury to concentrate on some higher caliber players and if/when they commit, at some point, you will see some lower quality players de-commit. I don’t think he would have taken another 3* if it wasn’t a lineman. hes only our 3rd OL commit. We are still in the hunt for 4-5 other highly rated players. if we get 2-3 of them then you will see 4-5 de-commit. Just the way it works these days.
Most of these kids have never taken an official visit, so there will be decommits everywhere. I have to question a kid’s willingness to compete if he passes on the opportunity to play for Nick Saban. It is the NFL equivalent of saying,”nah, I’d rather not play for Lombardi.”
Some hillbilly was babbling earlier about UT possibly landing 5-star OT Mims out of Georgia.
Looks like that ain’t happening!
please tell us toad, why? Did you hear it on The View?
Funny how you knew to react to that.
Why I heard it from you just today – “PS: I am hearing there is a little crack in the door to getting a commit from Mims away for Georgia. That would be sweet!”
lol
Come on toad try to keep up. you said “it looks like that aint happening” and I said why? Understand? oh never mind
yep that’s what you said, no misunderstanding
If you can’t read between the lines – UT picking up a 3-Star OT means Mims is 0.0 probability for UT – then maybe you should quit trying to sound like Rusty Mansell or some type of recruiting insider.
Even before UT’s latest 3-star coup your comment was preposterous
Tell us – where were you “hearing” that insider info, this ought to be good
You two are hilarious. Keep it up. SDS is usually mundane but every once in a while you get a gem.
I still can’t believe that of Negan, Corch and TDOW, TDOW was the one to get his SDS account zapped first. My money would have been on Negan.
Dude will be a nice starting interior lineman. Looks to develop into a devastating pulling guard. Has virtually nothing to do with the recruitment of A Mims though. Georgia is clearly ahead there and Tennessee still has a chance.