If you don’t have a blue-chip QB commit yet, you’re probably not getting one

Quarterbacks tend to commit earlier than players at other positions. Coaches sell them on the idea of leading a school’s class, and once one of them commits to a school, that school’s essentially crossed off every other QB’s list. Some schools do end up taking multiple QBs in a class, but one per class is much more common.

And in the 2016 class, the dominos are falling.

Wednesday alone saw three four-star commits: Jarrett Guarantano to Tennessee over Ohio State and Rutgers, Devon Modster to Arizona over UCLA and Boise State and Tristen Wallace to Ohio State over most of Texas.

Yeeeeeesh. Kentucky quarterback Drew Barker gets sucker-punched by an EKU player, part of a night full of confrontations between the two teams. They play this season.

Will last year’s breakout fall off? Bill C’s preview series moves on to Colorado State, which is starting over in a sense with Mike Bobo at the helm after Jim McElwain left for Florida. Will the Rams take a step back in 2015? Maybe not, actually.

The country’s spread-iest spread offense is ... For the second year in a row, one Bill C metric names Kansas State. Surprised?

YOU ARE OLD. Brian Dawkins Jr., son of the NFL player who retired in 2011, is already a college football commit. He’s headed to Clemson, though our Clemson site worries he’s too small.

Think he looks like his pops?

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Elsewhere in CROOTIN: Four-star offensive linemen commit to USC and to Washington.

Heating up in Austin. Tyrone Swoopes has been getting the majority of the first string snaps this spring for Texas, but head coach Charlie Strong said Wednesday that Jerrod Heard has “closed the gap” on him.

Penn State’s offense might be good! Penn State fans are pretty excited about their wide receiving corps, which returns literally all of Christian Hackenberg’s weapons. If the offensive line play can improve, the Nittany Lions could score in bunches.

Soldier scholar. California Golden Blogs has a long read on a former Cal football player who wound up in Afghanistan.

Imagine that. Reports seem to indicate Washington State’s defense looks ... good? Even a move toward average would be massive.

In more important Wazzu news, the first Mike Leach quotes of spring continue to trickle out: