Georgia soccer commit and signee Ellis Robinson IV has the potential to be an elite participant, with ESPN analyst Tom Luginbill making some fairly sturdy projections for the category of 2024 defensive again.
Robinson is a five-star participant who participated in final week’s Beneath Armour All-America Recreation. ESPN ranks him as the highest recruit within the nation within the 2024 class.
He had a proposal checklist that included Florida State, Kentucky and Miami amongst others.
Luginbill was the analyst for final week’s Beneath Armour All-America sport on ESPN. After watching Robinson in observe, he was impressed with the defensive again, who signed with Georgia in the course of the early signing interval in December.
“If I had been to simply inform you from a bodily attributes standpoint, he’s pretty much as good of a pure cowl nook prospect that we’ve had on this sport during the last 17 years now,” Luginbill instructed USA TODAY Excessive College Sports activities.
“I believe what makes him a bit distinctive is he’s each bit pretty much as good a tackler and run supporter- it’s not all concerning the go breakup, interceptions and restoration. He’s an entire bundle. So we’ve been very excited to see that he has been as marketed.”
Robinson performed his final 12 months of highschool soccer for IMG Academy (Bradenton, Florida). IMG completed the season fifth within the nation within the USA TODAY HSS Tremendous 25.
As for comparisons, Luginbill likened Robinson to a trio of defensive backs who’re at present within the NFL.
“He’s constructed very, similar to Sauce – that’s an amazing comp that I might agree with,” Luginbill stated.
“I believe Eli Apple when he was at Ohio State, that’s one other one? I might say that among the Alabama guys Dre Kirkpatrick, Minkah Fitzpatrick when he first got here to Alabama, he was a nook that bought moved into security. So I believe there’s a variety of good comps on the market.
“You simply don’t discover six one-and-a-half, 190-pound corners which might be simply so fluid and agile and explosive…there’s a variety of guys that look the half and are athletic, however possibly they don’t carry out to that degree on a regular basis. He performs on par along with his talent set.”