The Nebraska football team is adding to their list of verbal commitments for the 2009 recruiting campaign, and they got a big one earlier this week when Jesse Coffey III announced his intentions of signing with the Huskers.
Coffey, a starting right tackle at Guyer High School in Denton, Texas, isn't big on recruiting lists. He is listed as the No. 80 prospect among Texas football players by rivals.com.
But he is big on some numbers that are more important -- he is 6-foot-7 and 290 pounds, scored a 28 on his ACT test and is the top student in his class of 500 students.
And according to the Lincoln Journal-Star, the young man isn't done growing yet.
"I have a lot of room to put on a lot of weight, a lot of muscle," he told the Journal-Star. "As it is, I'm 290 and I'm pretty quick on my feet, and that' simportant for O-lineman in today's college football."
Coffey is the seventh player to verbally commit to the Nebraska football program, and the fourth from the state of Texas. Of course, verbal commitments don't mean anything until signing day in February 2009, but this has the potential to be a huge pick-up -- literally and figuratively -- for coach Bo Pelini and his staff.
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