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Boston College Football 2024: Freshman on Defense Preview

Quality over quantity. That’s the mantra of this recruiting class. With all the turmoil of BC’s late stage coaching transition and the college football transfer portal writ large, we have ourselves a class primarily composed of kids that the current coach didn’t initially recruit. All of them, however, have stuck by and bought into what Bill O’Brien had to say to them. There is an opportunity here. It’s a big jump from high school to college, so as always there may not be much playing time this year (although there have been a number of exceptions for the Eagles these past few seasons), but glass half full the incoming freshmen may have more attention given and room to grow.