SEC Recruiting: Who Is Filling Up Their 2025 Class Already, and Who Has the Most Catching Up To Do?

On today's show, we're talking all things SEC recruiting with our Locked On Recruiting Insider Brian Smith, as we discuss the recent trends in recruiting, including players getting paid NIL dollars just for a VISIT, as opposed to an actual commitment.
We also touch on some of the schools filling up their classes like Alabama as they have 17 commitments already after adding 4-star OL Jackson Lloyd and 4-star CB Chuck McDonald, while Georgia added to their class with 5-star LB Zayden Walker and 4-star WR Taylyn Taylor.
Can Auburn steal stud QB Julian Lewis away from USC? We get Brian's thoughts on that. Is WR Dakorien Moore still in play for LSU? And which programs in the SEC have the most work to do still in recruiting their Class of 2025? How does Florida and Billy Napier only have FIVE commits currently?
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[@lynksys]

Not mentioning the Sooners and what they’re building early in this class is criminal…

[@LockedOnSEC]

Will definitely get to them next time. Had them on our list, but ran out of time. Venables is crushing it

[@packersauburneric3625]

I'll take freeze over Venables ​@@LockedOnSEC

[@stoopstified7376]

Thanks for the heads up...I'm out

[@doniphan72ify]

November 9th the Sooners will get embarrassed by their former little brother.

[@johnberger8817]

​@doniphan72ify MIZ!

[@knoxcleveland3151]

War Eagle!

[@johnlee4763]

War Buzzards only good at throwing toilet paper not football 1 championship in a 100 years 😂😂😂

[@tonyrobinson1636]

Coaches really are the last people who should complain about others following the money!

[@user-ef6ud9xx5g]

war eagle....

[@johnlee4763]

War Buzzards are trash and fans are dillusional,gotta be hard to be a buzzard fan,like being a Tennessee fan,you coy put both teams together and still couldn’t win,but Tennessee is a better team than the Buzzards

[@Tim_ToolMayne_Taylor]

Having a kid tell you “He’s gonna get fired” about Billy Napier is wild lmao

[@AuburnMan]

🦅

[@johnlee4763]

All those boys that got paid will hit the transfer portal after this season and they suck,no one wants to play for a looser

[@johnmanuel7640]

War Eagle 🦅

[@johnberger8817]

So... no mention of MIZ. You should change the name of the channel to Locked on ALA/UGA/TEX/FLA.

[@johnlee4763]

Aww must be an Auburn fan,no body wants to talk about losers

[@johnberger8817]

@johnlee4763 Ummm MIZ?!?

[@rynebozzell]

Analogy: Would you take 3 interviews for a job which you didn't know what they would pay you? No you wouldn't. Lay it all out on the table and I'll let you if I feel it's worth my time to interview.

[@LockedOnSEC]

Is this in response to paying players for a visit?

[@rynebozzell]

@@LockedOnSEC well, I know that I don’t consider a potential job is a real job until I know what their pay range is. And I don’t pay for my own travel expense when I go out there to interview. If I were to equate that scenario to today’s college athlete, then the answer to your question is, yes.

[@rynebozzell]

@@LockedOnSEC And, if the job requires me to relocate to California, I won't even interview - at any salary - period...

[@packersauburneric3625]

War eagle lets get nakeem offord and zion grady and jared smith !!!

[@johnlee4763]

Not getting any of those,they aren’t got to a nobody school,war buzzards will be lucky to win 7 games

[@user-nc9iy8ls1y]

Let’s get four more high rank players war eagle

[@johnlee4763]

Y’all ain’t got 1 high ranked player yet,war ducks suck quackers

[@johnlee4763]

Alabama is Crooting top tier Bama croots itself Bama is the brand

[@brandonb9468]

Nick left because he couldn’t pay players while everyone else couldn’t

[@Tim_ToolMayne_Taylor]

Don’t forget, charger and challengers are off the table now

[@markjones8041]

Who has the most money to buy players ?

[@johnlee4763]

Texas,they got that oil money

[@calvinbarnes8689]

Didn’t hear M-I-Z not once 😤😊

[@LockedOnSEC]

ran out of time. Will definitely have Mizzou recruiting talk next time with Brian

[@Tim_ToolMayne_Taylor]

War Damn Juju

[@ROUGHNECK75]

SOONERS!

[@rynebozzell]

Lincoln Riley to Florida after this year..... Billy Napier is a good coach, despite how dumb Florida fans are.... Southern Cal fans are full of themselves; living in the past.

[@paulshears5202]

Lincoln Riley don’t want to coach SEC. Don’t know if he’s scared or what but that’s why he left Oklahoma to start with

[@rynebozzell]

@@paulshears5202 Lincoln Riley knows that he has no chance of winning the Big Ten or ever being in the playoff while at USC. It would have been so much better if USC had stayed in the PAC 12.

[@johnlee4763]

Lincoln Riley is trash,he couldn’t win shit in the Sec

[@rynebozzell]

@@johnlee4763 well, I don’t know about that. Lincoln Riley is known as the best quarterback coach in college football. Certainly, someone will pay a dollar for that.

[@kennethheidelberg5384]

This show sucks

[@johnberger8817]

Locked on ALA/UGA/TEX/FLA. Need to change the name.

[@johnlee4763]

War Buzzards suck big ol taters

[@michaelrose7572]

Boomer Sooners Baby