Deion, Buffaloes include 2024 4-star WR from Texas
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Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Personnel WriterDec 10, 2023, 03:57 PM ET
Dre’lon Miller, a four-star pass receiver, dedicated to Colorado on Sunday, adding to the Buffaloes’ rebound on the 2024 recruiting path under coach Deion Sanders.
“Just the relationship [with Sanders],” Miller told ESPN about what stood out the majority of. “And I felt the connection quickly. You know, I seem like that was God giving me the sign.”
Miller (No. 85 in the 2024 ESPN 300), who went on a main check out to Colorado last weekend, is the second ESPN 300 prospect to commit to the program considering that Thursday, when luxury offensive take on Jordan Seaton (No. 19 general in 2024) committed.Seaton and Miller provide Sanders and his staff a much-needed boost with the early signing duration looming Dec. 20. Athlete Aaron Butler(No. 70 overall in 2024), wide receiver Winston Watkins Jr. (No. 87 in 2025 ESPN 300, and quarterbacks Danny O’Neil(2024) and Antwann Hill Jr. (No. 46 in 2025 ESPN 300 )all decommitted from the Buffaloes given that early November.The addition of Miller, who had actually at first committed to Jimbo
Fisher and Texas A&M on June 29 before eventually decommitting in mid-October, is important due to the fact that it comes less than 24 hr after Butler decommitted after pledging in Might to Sanders, his daddy, Robb-Davon’s, previous teammate with the Baltimore Ravens.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Miller, at 6-foot and 205 pounds, had a strong senior season for Silsbee High
School(Texas),
catching 52 passes for 1,010 lawns and 11 touchdowns in 13 games. That followed a junior campaign when he had 59 receptions for 1,399 lawns and 21 ratings in 14 games.He’ll offer quarterback Shedeur Sanders another prominent target to accompany Travis Hunter and Jimmy Horn.” I seem like I’ll be a good
part of their offense,”Miller said.”Simply get the ball in my hands to make plays, open up other receivers like Travis and
Jimmy and have an explosive offense with the best quarterback. “Miller included that he spoke with quarterback Shedeur Sanders, Deion’s kid, on Sunday morning. “He was simply congratulating me and let me know to get ready.’
This feature of to be fun,”‘Miller said of Shedeur Sanders’message.The season-opening roadway upset of
TCU highlighted a 3-0 start for Deion Sanders’tenure. But Colorado (4-8, 1-8 Pac-12 )lost eight of its final nine games, and now
heads back to the make over, extremely competitive Big 12, a league the Buffaloes played in from 1948 (known then as the Big Eight )through 2010. The Buffaloes’offense ended up 80th in the FBS and ninth in the Pac-12 with 363.6 lawns per game while their offense ended the year 59th in the nation at 28.2 points a game(eighth in the
Pac-12). After decommitting from Texas A&M, Miller visited LSU last month and took trips to Miami and USC in June. The Aggies replaced Fisher with previous Duke coach Mike Elko last month.”I had the sensation that the coach was
going to alter,”Miller stated of his choice to alter course in October. “I enjoy Jimbo to death and I love Coach Elko, too. But he wasn’t Jimbo Fisher for me.”Truthfully, [
. my visit to Stone] offered me that feeling. I went to a great deal of gos to and a lot of locations. I had the sensation, however this go to simply provided me the sensation like in my heart that this was the one. Me and my family discussed it. They had the very same feeling. They went on every visit with me and we just realized that this was the school for me and my family.”