The nation’s top wide receiver recruit Easton Royal turns 17 on Wednesday. The Brother Martin pass-catcher has been committed to Texas since late November, and he has spent most of the eight months since then taking visits, talking to other staffs and leaving the rest of the sport to guess.
On3 and Rivals vice president of national college football recruiting Steve Wiltfong put a number on the guessing. On July 17, Wiltfong logged an expert prediction for the New Orleans native to flip from Texas to LSU. The Rivals Recruiting Prediction Machine gives LSU an 86 percent chance to sign him.
Why LSU has closed the gap on Texas for Easton Royal
The calendar set this up somehow after Royal announced for Texas on a Saturday. Head coach Lane Kiffin was introduced at LSU the very next day and reached out to him almost right away.
“Coach Kiffin was going to hit him up and said that they’re going to be putting up video game-type numbers on the offensive side of the ball,” Wiltfong said of a December conversation with the receiver at the Under Armour All-American Game…