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Alabama lost a commitment from three-star kicker Brandon Ruiz over the weekend. Within minutes of that news, word began to surface on the BOL Round Table that Cairo (Ga.) standout Cole Phillips had been offered a preferred walk-on spot for 2017.
I did some checking around Sunday night with those familiar with Phillips and was told that prior to getting the PWO bid from UA, Phillips looked to be headed to Marshall on a blueshirt offer. He also had PWOs from Georgia Southern and Georgia.
The fact that Phillips appears headed to UA is interesting because he apparently had Hope Scholarship money coming from both GSU and UGA. Obviously, that won't be the case at Alabama, although the possibility of Phillips landing on scholarship with the Crimson Tide as early as 2018 is believed to be high.
rbr opInteresting note here about Phillips. Reier generally knows what he is talking about and wouldn’t write that the young man “appears” headed to UA unless he believed it. He may very well be a blueshirt at Alabama as well - meaning that he shows up on campus as a walk-on, has not been recruited, signs grant-in-aid paperwork before fall semester and counts toward the following year’s class rather than this one. There has been some speculation that the staff decided that they needed Ruiz’s slot in this year’s class for another position. Since he had been publicly recruited, a greyshirt would have been the only other option for him at Alabama.
In general, kickers are simply a tough position to project. Both Cade Foster and Adam Griffithwere highly regarded scholarship players while Jeremy Shelley was a walk-on, and Shelley had the best career of the three. The vast majority of the kickers in FBS are walk-ons, at least initially.
 
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