Of the losses, I hate losing Jackson, Williams-Thomas and Phillips. All three could be stars in power 5 conferences. Jackson went to challenge for the starting job at Indiana (and to go to school with his brother) and that makes sense for him - Joe looked good in the bowl game and Nico might be a generational talent. It’s gonna be tough for any school to have a third quality QB on roster. William-Thomas has enormous talent and was thought to be our best back in last years class but he was slowed with injuries and couldn’t get any higher than 4th on the depth chart with all three guys ahead of him returning. Phillips was down the depth chart but he has great body size for an interior lineman on the DL and it seems most of our interior DL are juniors or seniors. But I guess he was looking for more immediate playing time.
Overall I agree we got more than we lost…but I’d like to have been able to keep these three.