It looks like they have two early-enrollees for the draft. That seems like a good indicator to me regarding momentum in the program for Utah. If they are leaving early, they have been trained well and could signal longer-term success, but in the short-term, it could mean tough times to start the next season and a hit to their depth. To my understanding, they can reverse that decision and come back, but I could be mistaken. I wanted to see how common this was. In the Pac-12, here are the early enrolees:
Budda Baker, S, Washington
Elijah Qualls, DL, Washington
John Ross, WR, Washington
Sidney Jones, CB, Washington
Chad Hansen, WR, Cal
JuJu Smith-Schuster, WR, USC
Adoree’ Jackson, CB, USC
Damien Mama, OL, USC
Christian McCaffrey, RB, Stanford
Solomon Thomas, DL, Stanford
Marcus Williams, S, Utah
Garett Bolles, OT, Utah
Only 12 in the entire conference, most of them from conference title contenders UW and USC. I don't follow them very closely - is Williams for sure gone? What will their team look like next year? Seems like they've gone a while without dipping on defense, and I'd love to see their run game decimated so they would truly have no offense whatsoever.