Auburn WR commit Bryce Cainâs young career on fast track
The college offers came quick for Auburn wide receiver commit Bryce Cain.
The speedy senior from Baker High in Mobile did not play football – at all – until last spring. Not in little league. Not at the junior varsity level. Not at all.
And now?
“I have 24-plus offers in a year,” he said this week at the Foley 7-on-7 event. “I can’t believe it really. All glory to God.”
Cain (5-foot-11, 170) committed to Auburn on June 13. His other offers included Ole Miss, Air Force, Cincinnati, Jacksonville State, Liberty, Louisville, Memphis, Northwestern, Troy, Tulane and Wake Forest.
He said he is completely sold on the Tigers.
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“I love it,” he said. “It feels like home. I feel like I have an opportunity to play early, and I think the coaching staff can get me to the next level. I’m already loving it.”
Cain said the Auburn staff has penciled him in as a speedy slot receiver. He said first-year Tiger head coach Hugh Freeze was an “awesome, awesome coach. He has the best personality of any of the coaches I’ve had the pleasure of meeting.”
Cain caught 26 passes for 497 yards and 5 TDs a year ago in his first year of football.
“He’s really good,” Baker quarterback and Mississippi State commit Josh Flowers said. “He just started playing last year so he’s improving every day. The ceiling is really high for him.”
Cain himself admits his football ceiling didn’t start out too high. A baseball player most of his life, he finally was talked into trying football last spring.
“The first practice, the ball is hitting me in the head,” he joked. “I couldn’t catch for anything. As time progressed, that got better, and I’ve been catching everything since.”
Baker head coach Steve Normand said Cain runs a legit 4.3 or 4.4, which continues to turn the heads of college coaches.
“Last year was the first year he played football for us,” Normand said earlier this month. “That’s good and bad. Some say it’s good because he hasn’t formed any bad habits just yet. It’s funny thinking back. I told our guys last summer that he could fly but that he was catching the ball with his face. But he’s worked his tail off this year to get better and better. He’s a sponge. He wants to learn.”
Cain is currently listed at No. 27 among in-state senior recruits in Alabama, according to the 247 composite rankings. He is one of five of the top 30 players committed to Freeze’s Tigers, joining Booker T. Washington LB Joseph Phillips (No. 8), Andalusia RB J’Marion Burnette (No. 14), Moody DB A’mon Lane (No. 16) and Anniston DB Jayden Lewis (No. 18).
“I’m done (with recruiting),” Cain said. “I’m 100 percent locked in. I feel like there is so much stress off me now. I can just go out and compete my senior year.”