Take Two: Are the Sooners primed to add five-star CB Daxton Hill?

Take Two returns with a daily offering tackling a handful of issues in the college football landscape. Rivals.com National Recruiting Analyst Adam Gorney lays out the situation and then receives takes from Rivals.com National Recruiting Director Mike Farrell and a local expert from the Rivals.com network of team sites.

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Daxton Hill has moved up to become the top-rated safety in this recruiting class and a five-star prospect.

The Tulsa (Okla.) Booker T. Washington standout is phenomenally athletic and special in many ways and he has the impressive offer list to back it up.

Whether it’s Hill breaking on a pass, making a big tackle, intercepting a pass and running it back showing off outlandish speed or even showing his special abilities at receiver, the new five-star definitely has earned his ranking.

But who’s going to earn his commitment? Alabama and Ohio State along with Oklahoma State seem like players, but is Hill’s recruitment setting up big for Oklahoma to land another five-star in this class?

The Sooners already have one of the best recruiting classes nationally. Can they land a local five-star prospect and keep other big names like Alabama and Ohio State from getting the state’s best player?

"Through recent years the state of Oklahoma has had plenty of safeties that were recruited to an elite level, Steven Parker, Josh Proctor, Will Sunderland, and the list goes on, but unlike each that seemed to have a glaring question, there just isn’t a hole to be found in Hill’s game.

"Size and length he has had since he was a freshman and was offered by Oklahoma following a spring practice. Speed and agility he has shown off the last two years at Nike camps; notably this spring posting the fastest 40 time at the Dallas event, edging out national No. 1 overall player Derek Stingley Jr. in a head-to-head race.

"Hill could be a proficient recruit as a wide receiver, and a fairly high-level one as just a cornerback, but when you take in all of those traits and put them into a safety whose frame hasn’t even begun to truly fill out, you’ve got an absurd athlete.

"But then you turn on the tape and see Hill making 90-yard defensive touchdowns in the state semifinals or game-changing interceptions for an eventual Oklahoma state champion team and you just find a player that, again, has no question the he hasn’t answered.

"I think his top six are all viable options though the more I talk to people the more it seems that Oklahoma, Alabama, and Ohio State have caught his attention in particular. Hill plays things very close to the vest, so none of the six being his eventual choice should come as any huge surprise but at this moment, I might lean ever so slightly toward Alabama as it’s a place that has impressed him as of late."

"He’s a freak athlete. He doesn’t play corner as much, so he’s not playing the sexy position like Derek Stingley but he’s a guy who could play corner at the next level with his ability or be that Jalen Ramsey-type who starts at safety and moves to corner and works at nickel.

"He has so much speed and so much talent, a super-explosive kid. He has make-up speed, closes on the football really well, plays against the run and runs things down as well. His catch-up speed is elite and if he does make a mistake, he has the quickness to make up for it. You just don’t find too many explosive defensive backs with that combination.

“I think he stays home at Oklahoma, although Ohio State and Alabama are options. The Sooners are too hot on the recruiting trail to lose such an important in-state target."

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