The Reload: OSU Staff Makes Heavy Wave of Offers in Texas

Oklahoma State’s coaching staff has been hard at it on the recruiting trail this week, particularly at QB where the staff is heavily involved in filling the hole for 2020.

But QB isn’t the only position of need and the staff made a number of new offers elsewhere worth noting. Let’s recap real quick with everything you need to know in the week that was.

A three-star defensive end from Aledo, Colt Ellison is a fast riser in the Lone Star State that OSU has latched onto. But OSU isn’t the only school.

Ellison has picked up six offers in January alone to add to his running total of 10. At 6-4, 235-pounds, he’s an explosive edge rusher who earned first-team all district honors as a junior last season.

Another new offer this week landed in the hands of 2020 safety prospect Chris Thompson Jr., a sophomore at Duncanville High in Texas. He’s got five offers and a rising profile after being named the the District 7-6A Defensive Sophomore of the Year in 2017.

OSU extended an offer on Jan. 30 — just one day after the in-state Longhorns, the favorite to win out in his recruitment, offered the 6-2 talent.

The coaching staff made two offers at tight end for 2020 this weekend — the first to Bishop Dunne’s Elijah Yelverton, a jumbo receiver who has been forced to play inside.

Yelverton is a 6-foot-5 talent who has wheels to boot and produced at a high level in 2017, earning first-team all-district honors at WR as a sophomore at Royse City HS. At Bishop Dunne, his profile should be raised tenfold and Purdue, Kansas, Nebraska and Indiana interest should be just the start of what will likely be an intense recruitment process. So kudos to OSU for getting in the mix early.

Blessed and excited to receive a football scholarship offer from Oklahoma State University! #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/s34nKdKE8j

— Brandon Frazier (@BKFraz) February 2, 2018

The second TE offer this week — Brandon Frazier — is among the more interesting. Frazier is a dual-sport standout in both hoops and football at McKinney High School in Texas, and OSU is first in the mix to get in on him on the gridiron.

Count me in on this one. What OSU needs is a dynamic talent at TE who can catch passes, jump balls, and block, and Frazier’s athletic enough to do it all in a way similar to Collinsville TE and OSU pledge Grayson Boomer.

The last offer to note is to four-star offensive lineman Javonne Shepherd of North Forest High School in the greater Houston area.

Shepherd is a 6-7, 305-pound prospect ranked as a top-300 national recruit.

With offers from A&M, Alabama, Texas, TCU and Georgia (among the 20), this one is …. a long shot. But Henson’s shooting his shot, which, for now, is all you can ask. Better to try and get denied than to have not efforted at all.