 It's a day football fans coaches and players wait for every year. National signing day is finally here and after a nine and three season along with a mineral water bowl victory the BSU football team was looking to add for the future. This is like Christmas for us baby. Like Christmas it was indeed. Today the BSU football team officially welcomed 27 new players to their team. It's an exciting day and I think overall what the class were pretty excited like I like I mentioned I think you're always gonna be excited when you add as many people as we we've added back to the program. With three seniors graduating this year one area of need the Beavers felt they needed to address was their offensive line and while they don't expect this group to make an impact immediately they say the added depth is much needed. You talk about offensive line and you don't necessarily talk about athletes but there's some really gifted athletes in that group so that group overall was I don't know if that's the headliner of the group but I'd say it's one of the better recruiting groups that we've had on the offensive line for a while. Another area of need included the running back position. BSU added four athletes with this year's class and are very high on the entire group. A couple of our running backs I think probably most of them you'll see here a little bit on the smaller side you know five eight five nine guys that have some twitch. We're really excited about his Jalen Fry he's from Montimedi we haven't had a lot of kids from Montimedi up over the years but he should be able to come in and compete I don't know if he'd play as an underclassman but he's certainly not going to close the door on him. Rochette Greys joining us from my task in community college was only down from Tennessee area he should be able to provide us some depth hopefully be able to take over a larger role as he gets on board. They hit what they call their quote own back yard especially securing 21 commitments from players in Minnesota and Wisconsin. You have to start with Minnesota guys and I look at our roster you know 70 80 percent of our guys should be from what we classify as local from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota kids. That included Park quarterback Brandon Ault who led the state of Minnesota in passing guards with 2021 passing guards per game at a 252 per game clip and finished tied for fourth in the state with 22 passing touchdowns. Brandon was a big one he was a kid that we targeted early in the process and anytime you have somebody that gifted in your program and you gotta have a guy in our offense that can pull the trigger and run and throw the ball so he can certainly do that and we expect big things for him. And while they expect their returning players to contribute the most this season BSU is excited about where they believe this class can take them. We think we had a lot of our needs with quality young men and players that can help take us to the next step. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.