Dane Borene | SMB
Dane Borene
- Class
- 2024
- Position
- DL
- Height
- 6'6"
- Weight
- 240
- School
- SMB
About Dane
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Expert Analysis
Oliver West | Prep Redzone Scout
Meet the PRzMN’s 2024 official rankings update’s biggest stock riser! Coming all the way from the watchlist to a Top-20 ranking at #16 overall, things have changed quickly and excitedly for the 6’5, 240 lb. DE out of Blake High School and the SMB Wolfpack program. The fall of ’22 was a breakout season for the junior, who gained valuable experience with the Wolfpack as a sophomore and was ready to level up as an upperclassman, and broke out into the recruiting scene thanks to some added inches and pounds and good production throughout the midway point of his junior season, posting 25 tackles, 6 sacks, and 4 TFLs only a week into October. Iowa State, Minnesota, NIU, Columbia, North Dakota, and Washington all invited him to gameday experiences during the season, and things kept heating up in the winter with Kansas State, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota State, and Minnesota stopped by Blake to talk to the DE in person. At the end of January, things reached a turning point when Central Michigan became his first college offer, and Princeton, UPenn, and Air Force quickly followed the next month. In a surprising twist, Borene – who was gaining P5 traction on the recruiting trail – abruptly shut down his recruitment and committed to play Ivy League football for Princeton. You’ll see recruits who are more academic-oriented commit earlier into the process, and with him going to Blake there is an alignment with that argument, and anyway you go about it, it’s a heckuva pickup for the Tigers. Borene possesses a ton of length, a great get-off, proficiency, and comfortability when tackling in space, and active hands when working through blocks. For a kid of his size, I like his speed in pursuit when running down the ball, and he showed some solid reps of him beating OTs to either shoulder. If he can continues to progress and develop like he has been then FBS and P5s are going to continue to kick the tires. SMB’s pass rush is terrifying next year!
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