The Massachusetts Minutemen have continued their solid work on the recruiting trial and have secured verbal commitments from two players this week, adding pledges from Arlington, TX (Sam Houston HS) RB Peytton Pickett on Sunday and Philadelphia, PA (Simon Gratz HS) OL RaQuan Thomas on Tuesday.
Pickett adds more depth and skill to the UMass backfield, and he is the 3rd running back to commit to the Minutemen in this cycle, following Tyshaun Ingram and Tyler Thompson. The Minutemen also saw two true freshman get the lion's share of the carries this past season in Marquis Young and Sekai Lindsay, but after those two the depth at the position was lacking.