Football: 2015 Ragin’ Cajuns Football Signing Day Central

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LAFAYETTE – The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns added another highly-touted recruiting class on Wednesday as fifth-year head coach Mark Hudspeth and his staff added 24 players, including eight from the state of Louisiana, along with prospects from five other states and Australia.
 
Louisiana, which posted its fourth consecutive 9-4 record and claimed its fourth straight R�L Carriers New Orleans Bowl title, brought in 14 offensive players, eight defensive players and two specialists with its 2015 class. The Ragin’ Cajuns added six players from the state of Mississippi, four from Texas, two from Alabama and Florida, and one from Georgia. Of the Ragin’ Cajuns 24 signees, five are currently enrolled in classes on the UL campus and will take part in spring practice, which is slated to begin March 3.

"I’m really proud of our staff, this is a great recruiting class and the future of our program," Hudspeth said. "We did feel like we did meet just about all of our needs in recruiting. I really feel great about our class. It’s great that we already have five players enrolled (in school) and are going through our workouts. It’s going to be a lot of fun as we unveil the future of our program."
 
Louisiana’s recruiting class – ranked first among the Sun Belt Conference schools by both Scout.com and 247Sports.com – included five offensive linemen, three wide receivers, three defensive backs, three athletes, a pair of quarterbacks, two running backs, two linebackers, and one player each at tight end, punter, kicker and defensive line.
 
Kicker Stevie Artigue (Lafayette, La./Lafayette HS), defensive back Ethan Rose (Lafayette, La./Northside HS) and offensive lineman Cole Prudhomme (Eunice, La./Eunice HS) were among the in-state athletes to join the Ragin’ Cajuns. Other in-state newcomers for the Ragin’ Cajuns included offensive lineman Kevin Dotson (Plaquemine, La./Plaquemine HS), wide receiver Jarrod Jackson (Reserve, La./East St. John HS), tight end Carlos Robinson (Monroe, La./Ouachita HS), defensive back Kamar Greenhouse (Marksville, La./Marksville HS), quarterback Dion Ray (New Orleans, La./Helen Cox HS).
 
Signees from the state of Mississippi included running backs Jordan Wright (Pearl, Miss./Pearl HS) and Walter Williams (Vancleave, Miss./Vancleave HS), athlete Keenan Barnes (Madison, Miss./Madison Central HS), linebackers Alonzo Brown (Magee, Miss./Magee HS) and Joe Dillon (Tylertown, Miss./Tylertown HS), and athlete Ja’Marcus Bradley (Ackerman, Miss./Choctaw County HS).
 
Wide receiver Michael Jacquet (Beaumont, Texas/Central HS) and offensive lineman Ken Marks (Beaumont, Texas/Central HS) joined athlete Gary Haynes (Manvel, Texas/Manvel HS) and offensive lineman Robert Hunt (Burkeville, Texas/Burkeville HS) as new players from the Lone Star State with Terik Miller (Pensacola, Fla./Escambia HS) and Rico Robinson (Pensacola, Fla./Catholic HS) – the younger brother of former Ragin’ Cajuns standout and current NFL tight end Ladarius Green as signees from the state of Florida.
 
The Ragin’ Cajuns added two players from the state of Alabama – quarterback Chris Weaver (Saraland, Ala./Saraland HS) and defensive lineman Mario Osborne (Daphne, Ala./Daphne HS), plus junior college defensive back Christian Goodlett (Lawrenceville, Ga./Hutchinson [Kan.] CC) and punter Steven Coutts (Brisbane, Australia/University of Queensland).