Akylin Expensive — the No. 1 operating again within the nation — has dedicated to Alabama soccer. He reopened his recruitment on June 28 after being dedicated to Ole Miss since March.
The Quitman (MS) prospect took an official go to to Tuscaloosa on June 14-16 and returned for the Champions Cook dinner-Out through the ultimate week of July. He informed Bama247 shortly after the official go to that the brand new employees did a “nice and wonderful job” throughout that multi-day journey and he was “handled like I used to be a participant there already.”
NATIONAL ANALYSIS: Alabama commit Akylin Expensive ‘has the look of basic Nick Saban operating again’
Loads of time was spent with Robert Gillespie, who performed an important position within the choice.
“To inform you the reality if he would have left (Alabama can be out), however since coach G there, that is my man,” he informed Bama247 in January earlier than a shock March dedication to the Rebels.
Alabama soccer coach Kalen DeBoer additionally made a robust impression on the 6-foot-1, 200-pounder earlier this yr when he visited Quitman Excessive Faculty through the open contact interval.
“It meant so much as a result of I believed when coach Saban left, it was going to be (executed). It means so much that coach DeBoer believes in me. “As a result of that is Alabama’s new head coach. You know the way that’s. So, I used to be like ‘it was thoughts blowing. He is a good man.”
The best way the offense featured operating backs whereas at Washington, extra particularly Dillon Johnson, had Expensive’s consideration early additionally.
“I like how he used Dillon Johnson,” stated Expensive earlier this yr. “He is from Mississippi too. I noticed how he developed. Particularly that USC sport. I noticed how the coach gave him the ball, so I like that.”
One other operating again from Mississippi? Freshman Daniel Hill, who was Expensive’s player-host earlier this month.
“Hill is my man. He stated I’m not going anyplace, however ‘Bama.”
That seems to be true and Expensive joins four-star Anthony Rogers because the second operating again commit in Alabama soccer’s 2025 recruiting class.
Expensive is the No. 45 participant within the nation and No. 2 prospect in Mississippi, per the Top247 Participant Rankings. He rushed for two,016 yards and 27 touchdowns in his junior season whereas totaling 21 touchdowns as a sophomore.
Scouting Report by way of Cooper Petagna
“A powerful north south runner with a sturdy body at 200-pounds plus, Expensive possesses the flexibility to play in each a zone or energy scheme on the subsequent stage. The Quitman Excessive Faculty standout shows good endurance and imaginative and prescient on the line of scrimmage whereas demonstrating the brief space burst and explosiveness to vary gears from the primary to second stage to create separation between the tackles. An environment friendly mover that may make defenders miss along with his one reduce elusiveness or contact stability, Expensive excels discovering hidden yardage and accounting for yards after contact using his highly effective decrease half. Though identified for his physicality and craftiness as a runner, the Mississippi product displays the separation quickness and lengthy pace to be a house run menace on the subsequent stage as nicely. Possessing a collegiate affect prepared body along with gaudy statistics and verified measurements, Expensive tasks as an instantaneous affect prospect on the Energy-4 stage with the flexibility to develop right into a Day-2 NFL Draft selection on Sundays.”
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