TCU football adds some major speed to its 2022 recruiting class
Speed, baby.
Nobody likes it more than TCU football coach Gary Patterson and he added some to his 2022 recruiting class on Thursday.
Major Everhart, a three-star running back prospect out of Amarillo Tascosa, announced his intention to join the Frogs during a school pep rally. Everhart is ranked as the 70th-best prospect in Texas by 247Sports, but possesses the elite-level speed that could make him an impact player at the next level.
Notre Dame ranked among the most notable schools competing with TCU during Everhart’s recruitment.
“Everhart is one of the fastest players in the nation,” said Jeremy Clark, recruiting expert and publisher of 247Sports’ Horned Frog Blitz.
“He’s fast enough that he’ll also run track for the Frogs. As a football player, Everhart is dynamic in every aspect when he has the football.”
Everhart has the times to back up the speed hype. He’s run a 10.38-second in the 100 meters, and a 21.42-second in the 200 meters.
Everhart could be used in a variety of roles with the Frogs’ football team. He’s currently averaging almost 20 yards per carry and almost 30 yards per reception for Tascosa.
With TCU losing three slot receivers at the end of the season — Taye Barber, Derius Davis and JD Spielman — Everhart could compete for snaps at that position given his explosiveness. He’ll also have an opportunity to compete for running back reps.
“Regardless of how he gets the football, he’ll be a threat every time on the perimeter,” Clark said.
Everhart is the 11th commitment for TCU’s 2022 class. It’s ranked 54th in the nation, per 247Sports.
Duggan on committee
TCU junior quarterback Max Duggan has been selected as one of two Big 12 student-athletes to represent the conference on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee Student-Athlete Connection Group.
Duggan will represent “the interests of Big 12 football players and college football as a whole.”
Duggan, who is a marketing major in the Neeley School of Business, has started 23 of TCU’s last 24 games and has been a team captain in the last 13 games.
This season, Duggan has thrown for 899 yards with eight touchdowns and two interceptions. He’s also rushed for 143 yards and two touchdowns.
Donati weighs in
The Big 12 announced Thursday that its board of directors approved for members to provide education-based benefits for student-athletes in all sports of up to $5,980 per academic year resulting from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Alston v. NCAA case decided in June.
The Big 12 is following what the SEC had already announced it would do last month. It’s expected that most conferences will take similar measures.
“Following the Court’s decision in Alston, the Board wanted to take time to assess the national landscape before determining how best to activate in this space,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a statement. “Today’s action allows each Big 12 member institution the latitude to decide at the campus level the degree to which it provides education-related benefits and/or academic achievement awards or incentives to its scholarship student-athletes.”
TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati said the school is “considering a variety of models that fall under the conference’s guidelines.”
This story was originally published October 7, 2021 at 3:00 PM.
