Colorado recruiting OL from transfer portal instead of high school

Coach Prime will be protecting his son, Shedeur Sanders, also known as the most-sacked quarterback in the country, with Colorado football transfer portal offensive linemen; choosing to go after veterans instead of 2024 high school recruits according to Denver Sports’ Jake Shapiro.

“Repeatedly Coach Prime has said the team and staff know what they need, and they’re looking to address it,” Shapiro wrote. “The most sacked team in the country, Colorado, clearly needs offensive line help. In fact, they need help on both lines and likely a defensive back to play opposite Hunter. All this help may not be coming from high school but from the transfer portal, which opens Dec. 4.”

Shapiro’s comments come in the wake of Colorado losing Talan Chandler to his home-state Mizzou Tigers and the de-commitment of Winston Watkins Jr.

Coach Prime’s message to prospective Colorado football recruits after de-commitments

Coach Prime laid it out to prospective Buffs recruits: he and his coaching staff aren’t begging a soul, and are only looking for players willing to make sacrifices to play at the University of Colorado.

“One thing about it is, we’re not an ATM,” Coach Prime prefaced on November 21 before saying, “That’s not gonna happen here. If you come to Colorado to play football for me and the Colorado Buffaloes, it’s because you really want to play football and receive a wonderful education, and all the business stuff will be handled on the back end if that’s the case. But we are not an ATM. You’re not coming here to get rich unless you’re really coming here with a plan to go to the NFL and get your degree. Not to come here and be Moneybagg Yo. That’s a rapper, right?”

That strategy isn’t going to end up with the highest caliber recruits, so it’ll be on Deion Sanders to coach up a fired-up group looking to overperform under the brightest lights — a formula that has frequently yielded results in this sport.