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It has been hard not to notice all of the buzz around the message boards and on the recruiting camp circuit regarding 2025 Lewisville OT Michael Fasusi, who is scheduled to visit Texas later this week.
Fasusi won the OL MVP award at last weekend's Rivals camp in Dallas, and judging on the amount of social media coverage he got from @Suchomel and others covering the event, it appears he looks every bit as good in person as he appears to be on camera:
When I first watched 2025 OT Lamont Rogers' highlights (Mesquite Horn), you would have had a hard time convincing me that there would be another offensive tackle in the state of Texas for that class that could be in a similar tier based on the highlights and the information publicly known to us as followers of recruiting. And that point is worth expanding on -- high school evaluations are among the toughest of any for a lot of reasons and it's well-known that evaluating offensive linemen at the high school-level is even more of a task.
Much of the time, we don't even know things we COULD technically find out like the content of the player's character or what their grades are like. It's hard to get coaches film on high school prospects which certainly would give a cleaner look at the overall body of work than the highlight reels we depend on from HUDL. We often don't even get to see them live and in-person to truly verify claims of size measurements and whether or not they simply pass the old eyeball test. But those are at least things we CAN do if we put the time and effort in ... anyone with a car and a media and/or university affiliation of some sort can drive to Dallas to talk to Michael Fasusi's coach and ask for some game film, meet the young man in person, maybe see him work out, and find out about his grades. That's where guys like Cole Patterson become so valuable.
But what no one can do with absolute certainty is project the future. We can be good at it, and confident in our methods. But we can't ever be CERTAIN in our evals -- even given the existence of all this helpful background intel. That's because we're trying to predict what is going to happen with a growing human. At a very basic level, one longtime Texas football evaluator named Randy Rodgers once told me that offensive line evals are the toughest among high school prospects simply because you have to project how physically big they are going to become and how their bodies are going to fill out -- on top of all the other uncertainties.
Still, there are players every day -- literally every day -- who get D1 offers from universities across the country based on their 5-minute HUDL reels of highlights, background details be damned.
Why? Well, because sometimes coaches see something in that reel of highlights that they know with certainty that they can work with, and "if the player has done it once," they tell themselves, "he can do it again." Bill Belichick is the greatest living football coach and he has reportedly expressed a similar sentiment in NFL draft rooms when getting frustrated with his scouts. The scout will be talking about a receiver, for example, the Patriots are considering, and the scout will say that he plays a little weak off the line of scrimmage with his stems, he's not really a big yards-after-catch guy, not the best open-field vision -- and Belichick will stop them and reset the tone: "Tell me what he CAN DO." Belichick wants to know what the player has shown he can do more than what the evaluator believes he cannot.
It's like the first time I watched highlights on 2024 star edge-rusher Colin Simmons (Duncanville). I thought to myself at the time that those were literally some of the best highlights I'd ever seen. I wondered if they were sped up or doctored. Some kinda newfangled AI program called HudlGPT or some such.
The bend around the edge, the elite quickness and lateral agility, the twitch and connection from the upper body to the lower body to be tricky with punches and moves, pivots and stabs -- and to do it all so damn fast with an economy of motion and the jungle-cat closing speed that seems too good to be true. Of course anyone with two brain cells to rub together would offer that guy based on his HUDL reel. Because, then you've seen it. Someone says he's too small? Don't care. They worry about how he'll stand up against the run? Get out of here. Meaningless. You've seen what he CAN DO.
With these two 2025 in-state offensive tackles in Michael Fasusi and Lamont Rogers, it feels like we are starting to have a couple of players who are elevating firmly into that "nothing else matters because we've seen what he CAN DO" territory.
Lamont Rogers has really good feet and spatial awareness to engage players in open space with play-side leverage that is probably aided by his dual-sport participation in basketball. He's a natural athlete, very easy to see. He has a great-looking frame that will have no problem adding solid mass, and he could stand to gain some through the lower body. The fact that he's already about as strong as you would expect before looking like his lower power base is fully filled-out bodes extremely well for how he might look after a short period of time in a college S&C program. His balance is excellent for a player so tall and he doesn't tend to get his weight out over the balls of his feet. He is not only a lynchpin of what the scheme is trying to do in the run game, which is obvious, but also has shown nifty feet in pass protection.
Michael Fasusi is clearly a player who is impressive to see live, as we established earlier on. Just from the camp 1v1 reps (which are always harder for the OL than the DL) you see a guy with impeccable balance who keeps his elbows inside, doesn't cheat and simply wins with perfectly mirrored hips to the opposition's pass-rush moves and counters, even given no help or benefit of closer-quarters to teammates that he would have in a real game setting to play off of or use to his advantage. Like Rogers, and like all high school offensive linemen, his eventual strength/power is a projection, but there is zero in the highlights that make you feel like it should be any cause for concern. Fasusi is well-put-together and slender. He lines up in a crisp, clean stance. Nothing about his game even makes hints of "sloppy" that you can sometimes feel when watching OL cutups. You can see on certain double-teams, he's lightning quick to realize when his blocking partner has established leverage to allow him to climb to the next level, and he does so with intentionality and excellent technique.
Based on the early looks at these two players from the Texas 2025 class, it appears the Longhorns will have an in-state crop of offensive linemen to target for that cycle that will be more top-heavy than the 2024 group considering headliners like Rogers and Fasusi. And not going after both of these players with a vengeance would be a dereliction of duty and malpractice barring unknown and disastrous off-field concerns. Given Fasusi's upcoming visit, we can feel assured that Kyle Flood isn't dropping the ball here. Even at this early stage, we can feel pretty confident that we truly are starting to get that ever-important, absolute idea of what they CAN do. What they are capable of at the very least. The Colin Simmons Corollary.
Will either of them be a Colin Simmons-level freak? Well, to be fair, we're not even sure that Colin Simmons himself is going to be a Colin Simmons-level freak at the next level yet.
We can have a pretty damn good feeling about all of the above, though.
