Chris Ash reinforced "fencing the garden" by landing their first commit from Rutgers own backyard.
It was announced Thursday night that 3-star linebacker Elorm Lumor, the former Piscataway high school star, flipped his commitment from Temple to Rutgers and is enrolling early this week for the spring semester. It was quite a pickup for head coach Chris Ash and his staff, as Lumor was considered a hard commit to Temple and was planning to enroll there early instead. Ash's background and the allure of playing at home were the keys in his change of heart. Lumor said in Ryan Dunleavy's article, "The thing is that he is used to be the defensive coordinator at one of my dream schools.