Sherman reels in Cyrus Gray

Mike Sherman certainly has a great resume in is hand when he walks into living rooms. He averaged more than 10 wins a year in the NFL. He coached arguably the greatest quarterback in history in Brett Favre. And he is a Texas A&M guy, having coached there during the famous "Wrecking Crew" days.

It worked in the case of Jeff Fuller, whose father played in the NFL and is familiar with Sherman's offense. Fuller switched from Big Xii South rival Oklahoma to A&M as soon as Fuller heard about the West Coast offense that the Aggies would be running.

Sherman has done a great job of keeping a pretty solid class together. For a while this class, which was built very early in the recruiting season, was hanging in the balance.

College Station got some more good news recently. DeSoto running back Cyrus Gray has made his pick and committed to the Texas A&M Aggies.

Gray is ranked No. 54 in the Athlon Consensus 100.

This Gray is quite the opposite of his counterpart Jonas Gray (Detroit, MI - Notre Dame). Cyrus is about 30 pounds lighter than Jonas and is more of a speed back rather than a power runner. He lined up predominately as a quarterback, taking the shotgun snap and running with the ball. His natural open-field running ability is outstanding. He shows great vision and cut-back ability, exploding into creases and slashing through defensive front sevens. He can be a home run threat from the running back position.

For a speed back, Gray is very comfortable between the tackles. He uses his explosion and vision to find holes and squeak through with great quickness. Because he is smaller in stature, though, his penchant to run with a mean streak will catch up to him in college. Gray is a hard worker in the weight room, so he should be able to strengthen his lower body. An aspect he will have to improve, if he expects to run with the same intensity that made him so successful in high school.

Gray will play behind Mike Goodsen and big J-Train Lane next season but should be ready to tote the rock shortly there after.

Mike Sherman is certainly going to have a nice roster to work with over the next few seasons. Of course, so did Coach Fran.