Ashton Murphy, - Prep Redzone

Ashton Murphy

Defensive Line

2024 Class

6'5" Height

240 Weight

Elkhorn South School

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About Ashton

Ashton Murphy is a 6'5" Defensive Line in the 2024 class. Murphy attends Elkhorn South in Nebraska. Murphy's Player Profile was created on August 16, 2022. Subscribe to Prep Redzone to see where Ashton Murphy is ranked and what our scouts have written about them.

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Oliver West

Prep Redzone Lead Scout

The Elkhorn South junior is one of a few already-committed 2024s to make the list, but that happened recently, and 6’5, 240 lb. lineman Ashton Murphy Ashton Murphy 6'5" | 240 lbs | DL Elkhorn South | 2024 State NE still saw a meteoric rise during his junior year that began with him sitting un-offered at the time of his junior season completing. He attacked the offseason hard, and not just on the recruiting trail, as Murphy put up an eye-popping 315 lb. hang clean in December and a 475 lb. squat in February, and between those two dates he saw his recruitment kick off with offers from Northern Iowa, Colorado, and Nebraska (new staff), which set the tone for what was to come. Wyoming, Air Force, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, Navy, Iowa State, and Army followed suit, and between all of the offers and unofficial visits, Murphy decided he had seen everything that needed to be seen and shut down his recruitment to commit to the home state Nebraska Huskers. He won’t be the last in-stater to commit to the new ‘Huskers staff, and boy is he a good one, as Murphy possesses a quick get-off, strength and physicality at the point of attack, including a mean and effective bull rush, and a good speed/motor combination when in pursuit of the ball. He also looks very hard to disengage from when he’s playing OL, and laid some mean hits from his OT spot. I also like his base and ability to breakdown and corral smaller, quicker defenders at the edge of the LOS or in space. I could see him playing either OL or DL in college, and either way he’s another accomplished, talented, and proud in-state commit for Nebraska.