TCU Horned Frogs football recruiting 2014 updates

The 5-9, 185-pound all-purpose back committed to A&M in November of 2012, never appearing to waver until taking a surprise official visit to Fort Worth over the weekend to visit with head coach Gary Patterson and his staff, fueling speculation that Nixon would flip his commitment, which happened late Tuesday morning.

A consensus four-star prospect, Nixon is rated as the No. 5 all-purpose back nationally, the No. 22 player in the state of Texas, and the No. 182 player in the country by the 247Sports Composite rankings. He also held offers from Clemson, SMU, and Texas Tech and likely would have had many more had he not originally shut down his recruitment so early.

The 2014 and 2014 recruiting classes for the Red Raiders received additions over the weekend, with the pledge of 2015 Port Arthur (Texas) Memorial running back Corey Dauphine the first in that cycle.

Walnut (Calif.) Mt. San Antonio Community College offensive lineman Shaquille Davis was the addition to the 2014 class. A left tackle in junior college, the 6’4, 320-pounder may be destined for the guard position in Lubbock, in the estimation of Viva the Matadors’ Seth C. Rivals is the only service that has Davis ranked, listing him as a three-star prospect. Other contenders for his services included Cal, Louisiana Tech, Purdue, and Cincinnati.

The 6’4, 300-pounder had taken a visit to see the Arizona State Sun Devils over the weekend and has a planned trip to Central Florida for next weekend.

A consensus three-star prospect, Barrett is ranked as the No. 36 offensive tackle nationally, the No. 51 player in the state of Texas, and the No. 423 player in the country. Prior to his commitment to TCU, he held offers from Baylor, Duke, Houston, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisiana-Lafayette, North Carolina State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Oregon State, Rice, SMU, Texas Tech, Washington State, and West Virginia.

The biggest pledge of the weekend in the Big 12 came in for a school that is known for taking under recruited prospects and turning them into excellent collegiate players. So the commitment of Dodge City CC (Kansas) defensive tackle Terrell Clinkscales was unusual because Clinkscale is a consensus four-star prospect and the top junior college defensive tackle in the country according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, though it is certainly quite familiar to see head coach Bill Snyder tap into the junior college ranks.

Clinkscale took to Twitter over the weekend to announce that he was decommitting from the Nebraska Cornhuskers and committing to the Wildcats, a big recruiting win for Kansas State over their former Big Eight and Big 12 rival:

A consensus three-star prospect on the verge of a four-star rating from 247Sports, Porter had committed to TCU in August of 2012 before decommitting on June 10, 2013 and committing to Texas five days later.

The decision not to retain wide receivers coach Darrell Wyatt may have played a role in Porter switching his pledge back to TCU on the day that the recruiting dead period ended and Horned Frogs coaches visited with him. That visit from the TCU staff apparently had a greater impact than a similar visit from the new Texas coaches.

Henderson said that his plan is to take some visits, presumably official, before making his decision, then listed Florida, Ole Miss, Texas, and Baylor as schools that might receive them, which would likely leave TCU and South Carolina battling for the other official visit, assuming that no other schools seriously enter his recruitment.

Of Henderson’s top six, Florida and South Carolina are not listed as having offered Henderson to this point. The frontrunner, according to his 247Sports page, is Texas, though Henderson obviously did note that there is no order to his top six. All of the 247Sports Crystal Ball predictions currently have the nation’s No. 24 defensive tackle heading to Austin to play his college football, where he would join a class that currently has two defensive tackle commits in San Antonio (Texas) Warren’s Trey Lealaimatafao and New Orleans (La.) St. Augustin’s Courtney Garnett.

The 247Sports Texas site first broke the news that Henderson had decommitted and Inside Texas reported a short while later that Henderson had flipped to the Longhorns. However, reports from 247Sports and ESPN indicated that the Horns are merely the frontrunner for Henderson and that he has not yet committed to Texas. It may only be a matter of time before Henderson joins the Texas class.

There was also a report that Henderson has not decommitted from TCU, per a source, but 247Sports is standing by their report, citing multiple sources. Another report from the TCU Rivals site also holds that Henderson has not yet ended his commitment to the Horned Frogs.

One way to demonstrate where each school stands in recruiting is to put together an all-conference recruiting team.

The format is simple. Using the 247 Sports Composite of the four major recruiting rankings (Scout, Rivals, ESPN and 247), we’ll assemble the top QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, TE, 5 OL, 4 DL, 4 LB, 5 DB.

LEANDER, Texas -- The recruiting process is about to come to an end for Arlington (Texas) Bowie safety/outside linebacker Edwin Freeman, who has a top three of Texas, Texas A&M, and TCU (in that order), as well as a pending trip to visit LSU before he makes his decision in August.

The 6’1, 215-pounder told SB Nation Recruiting at Texas State 7on7 that the ‘Horns are at the top of his list because they were his favorite growing up and because of his strong relationship with defensive back coach Duane Akina and recruiting coordinator Bruce Chambers.

LEANDER, Texas -- It’s been a busy spring and summer for Fort Worth All Saints quarterback Foster Sawyer after committing to TCU, competing in the Dallas Elite 11 camp, and participating in the Texas 7on7 State Championship.

SB Nation Recruiting caught up with the 6’5, 215-pound quarterback while he was in Leander with All Saints and spoke with him about why he decided to follow so many members of his family to TCU, how he feels about the Horned Frogs taking two quarterbacks in the class, and what he’s been doing to improve for his senior season.

The news came on the heels of Orangebloods reporting that a source had told them the same thing earlier in the day.

A 6’5, 190-pounder, Porter is a consensus three-star prospect, the no. 70 player in the state of Texas by 247Sports, and the no. 69 wide receiver nationally by the same service. The offer from the Longhorns is the only offer other than TCU currently held by the Lincoln wide receiver.

The 6’5, 215-pound pro-style quarterback is ranked as a consensus three-star prospect by the services. Among pro-style passers, the All Saints product is ranked in the 247Sports Composite as the No. 20 player at this position in the country and the No. 40 player in Texas.

Prior to his commitment, Sawyer held offers from Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma State, SMU, and UCLA, but opted to stay close to home at the same school that multiple members of his family have attended.