Texas Tech football adds 3-star WR Quin Bright to 2020 class

Quin Bright, a 3-star receiver from Cedar Hill, Texas has verbally committed to the Texas Tech football program.

When the weekend began, the Texas Tech football program’s 2020 recruiting class featured no receivers. But after Quin Bright of Cedar Hill verbally committed to Matt Wells and the Red Raiders on Saturday, there are now three excellent receiving prospects on board a rapidly swelling recruiting class.

Bright holds offers from Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Purdue, Utah and Washington State. Rated a 3-star prospect by 247Sports, he is the No. 61 athlete in Texas and the No. 116 overall player in Texas.

But whereas the other two receivers to commit to the Red Raiders on Saturday, J.J. Sparkman and Ja’Lynn Polk, are prototypical outside receivers, the 5-foot-8, 167-pound Bright projects as a slot receiver at the collegiate level. In the last two seasons, he has racked up a combined 710 rushing yards on 125 carries while scoring 12 touchdowns as a running back. In the passing game, he’s caught 36 passes for 446 yards and four touchdowns.

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Running a reported 4.5 40-yard-dash, he could be a true multi-purpose weapon for the Red Raiders in a similar vein as sophomore KeSean Carter was in 2018. Last fall, the 5-foot-11, 165-pound Carter totaled 266 yards (238 receiving) and one touchdown but new offensive coordinator David Yost has said that he wants to find more ways to get the two-sport athlete (he also runs sprints for the national champion Red Raider track team), involved in the offense by utilizing him in a number of different roles.

It will be interesting to see how Yost deploys the inside receivers on his roster this year given that he will be replacing one slot receiver position with a tradition tight end. That means that Carter and Nevada transfer McLane Mannix, a 2017 freshman All-American, will be competing for playing time at the same position.

What’s more, Tech added another intriguing all-purpose athlete, Alonte Brown, a high school QB that could either play inning back or inside receiver for the Red Raiders. Regardless of who the next big-time slot receiver is for the Red Raiders, it will be fascinating to see if the position continues to be as productive in the Wells era as it has been for the last 20 years of the “Air Raid” era.

Three of the program’s top-10 career receiving yardage leaders have played in the slot. That includes No. 1 Jakeem Grant, No. 3 Wes Welker and No. 9 Nehemiah Glover. What’s more, three of the top-10 single season receiving yardage outputs in program history have come from inside receivers. Keke Coutee’s 2017 season ranks No. 2, Jakeem Grant’s 2015 season is No. 6 and Danny Amendola’s 2007 season is No. 8.

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Interestingly, Bright picked up his initial offer from Texas Tech back in October, when Kingsbury was still head coach. While the new coaching staff has rescinded some of the previous staff’s offers, Bright remained a top target throughout the transition and now he’s decided to be a Red Raider. Hopefully he can become another in a long line of star slot receivers at the university that redefined what the position has meant to the game football.

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