Another Peak At Cal's Commits

Cal has received nine verbal commits since the start of June. For that reason alone the list of commits deserve another look. Here are the 15 future Golden Bears.

Zahran Manley, Upland (Upland, CA), CB, 6-2 176
Elijah Mojarro, Orange Lutheran (Orange, CA), TE, 6-4 225
Braxten Croteau, Liberty (Peoria, AZ), DE, 6-5 240
Brett Johnson, Desert Vista (Phoenix, AZ), DT, 6-4.5 273
Ryan Puskas, Liberty (Peoria, AZ), OLB, 6-3 210
Bradley Archer, Livermore (livermore, CA), TE, 6-4 240
Blake Antzoulatos, Chaminade (West Hills, CA), ILB, 6-2 225
Brian Driscoll, Torrey Pines (Encinitas, CA), OT, 6'4" 278
Spencer Brasch, Higley (Gilbert, AZ), QB, 6'4" 190
Ben Coleman, Linfield Christian School (Temecula, CA), OT, 6'3" 300
McCade Mettauer, St. Pius X (Houston, TX), OG, 6'4" 287
Orin Patu, Rainier Beach (Seattle, WA), OLB, 6'4" 200
Miles Williams, Mansfield (Mansfield, TX), CB, 6'0" 170
Malik Bradford, Millikan Senior (Long Beach, CA), WR, 6'2" 210
DeCarlos Brooks, Chandler (Chandler, AZ), RB, 5'9" 188

All fifteen of Cal's commits are tagged with three stars.

A third of Cal's commits have come from the state of Arizona. Special teams coordinator Charlie Ragle was one of Arizona's top recruiters when he was on that school's staff. It looks like he's maintained his Arizona contacts since his move to Berkeley.

It must be pointed out that none of the commits are official. Until they sign a letter-of-intent, each can pull a JT Shrout and flip to another school at any time.

Current Pac-12 Recruiting Rankings (by 247Sports)
1.   Oregon
2.   Washington
3.   California
4.   Stanford
5.   USC
6.   Colorado
7.   Oregon State
8.   Arizona State
9.   Arizona
10. UCLA
11. Washington State
12. Utah

That's a fine showing by Cal. The rankings are strongly influenced by the number of commits. With 15 commits each, Cal has the most in the conference. Stanford has only seven but four of them are four-star recruits. The remaining three are three-star. It's still early.

Speaking of four-star recruits:
Oregon: 9
Stanford 4
Washington 3
USC 3
Colorado 1
Arizona 1

No Pac-12 team has one of those elusive five-star recruits. I wonder if the star rankings are kept low at this point so that it gives the graders room to move the players during the season.