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Ducks picked up a commitment tonight, per multiple twitter accounts, from Evan Baylis, a 4* TE out of Colorado. A great second commitment!

http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p= ... id=5106307

Damn! I like this a lot, and he could be one helluva weapon in the redzone at that height.

Those are his measurements as a junior in High School.

Offers from Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Stanford, and UCLA.

top recruit in the state of Colorado, likely to be 1st team all-state and a potential all-american.

Great pick up. Could be David Paulson part 2. Holds offers from elite academic schools like Stanford, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt. Supposedly has great hands. Sounds like Paulson on and off the field.

As Dan Rubenstein just pointed out, welcome to the Pac 12 Buffs!

uostudent wrote:Great pick up. Could be David Paulson part 2. Holds offers from elite academic schools like Stanford, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt. Supposedly has great hands. Sounds like Paulson on and off the field.

Sounds good to me! We have been pumping out great tight ends, so it doesn't surprise me that a talented tight end wants to come here.

Love this commit as well. Sort of a name that we haven't heard about. Oregon always seems like they pull in any top TE and make them an NFL player. I think every one of our starting TEs from the past 2 decades has played some type of pro football.

Awesome pic up he's a top 100 recruit on 247 and has offers from most of the Pac-10.

I think your right GY just about every TE has played in the NFL a few years from Oregon, but wonder if Paulson will make it in the NFL or not, he he's not exactly fast and not real big, but he has great hands and is fundamentally sound.

buckmarkduck wrote:Awesome pic up he's a top 100 recruit on 247 and has offers from most of the Pac-10.

I think your right GY just about every TE has played in the NFL a few years from Oregon, but wonder if Paulson will make it in the NFL or not, he he's not exactly fast and not real big, but he has great hands and is fundamentally sound.

He may not be spectacular, but he is reliable. He could easily find a team, since he'd probably be a good ST player as well.

I always worry about a kid committing this early sticking with it, especially if he takes visits. It seems as though Baylis has done his due diligence, taking unofficial visits to Michigan, Stanford and Oregon. Hopefully with him on board he can some recruiting of his own.

http://mgoblog.com/diaries/interview-te-evan-baylis

Haha this is incredible, what a great early commit. Nice pick up for the Ducks. I love his speed at TE, watch his highlights.

The war on Colorado has started
I hope we can get a pipeline set up in East Texas (Houston), SoCal, and Denver for the next decade or so. It looks like we got two of the three and I hope Colorado or Florida is our new target.

It's really interesting to see a pattern emerge here.

Kelly picked up White the year before, plus Lyerla and French last year, and now Baylis.

That's four TEs in three years (at least) that are very tall, very athletic with good receiving skills.

It makes me think that Kelly will be aiming for lots of two TE sets, and using the TEs more like WRs. It's been said that Lavasier Tunei is basically a TE in the Ducks system. So I think we'll see a lot of H-back, and the mismatches that will result in big play oppurtunities.

I know a lot of us were skeptical when Kelly brought Lyerla in as a TE, considering that French was also coming in. But it looks like he knows what he's doing!

Hell yeah! Nice commit.

Welcome aboard, Evan!