Andrew Bridges commits to Vanderbilt

The Commodores just landed their 23rd verbal commitment of the current recruiting class. Well, actually the 26th if you want to count the "commitments" from Davis Dudchock, Myron Ross and Bradley Roby.

But we're looking to the future. Andrew Bridges — a 6-foot-6, 245-pound lineman from Atlanta — got an offer from Vandy and jumped on it. He's listed on scout.com as an offensive tackle, which means he'd need to spend a year eating and lifting before he hits the field. But he's listed on rivals and espn as a defensive end, which means with the glut of veterans, redshirts and blue chippers we've got at end he'd be redshirting there too.

Sounds like a nice prospect. Three stars from ESPN and Rivals. Two stars from Scout, the same brain trust that gave Warren Norman and Zac Stacy two stars last year. Bridges runs a 4.8 40, which is movin' for a big man. Maybe he'll follow the Reilly Lauer/Ryan Seymour/Jabo Burrow plan of starting his career as a defensive end and then switching over to tackle.

I'm hoping he's replacing the scholarship reserved for offensive tackle James Stone and not the one we might be saving for defensive end Tim Jackson, a three-star Floridian who's supposed to be visiting campus this weekend.