Arizona football lands commitment from big New Mexico DL Tylen Gonzalez

The 2023 recruiting cycle has kicked into overdrive as official go to time has hit the Arizona Wildcats.

Final yr, Jedd Fisch and UA had been extraordinarily profitable using June official visits to construct their sturdy 2022 class. And they’re properly on their approach to constructing their 2023 class in the identical style.

The primary official go to weekend was extremely profitable and one of many new additions was Tylen Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, who’s a dual-sport athlete at Carlsbad (N.M.) Excessive College, is an intriguing prospect. He was comparatively unknown till very lately however Arizona has been on him onerous. He has incredible dimension at 6-foot-6 and 250 kilos and has loads of room so as to add extra muscle. He strikes very properly for somebody his dimension and has spectacular power as properly. He performs with a excessive motor, relentlessly pursuing the ball provider.

Gonzalez doesn’t have some other recognized gives, although he does have colleges pursuing him similar to Washington and UCLA. He doesn’t have an enormous social media presence and is type of tucked away, so it’s been tough to trace him.

Gonzalez is the primary New Mexico prospect to decide to Arizona since Calvin Allen in 2012.

He doesn’t have a rating on 247Sports but and he doesn’t have any stats on MaxPreps, however the former figures to alter with information breaking of his dedication.

See under for a few highlights throughout his junior season.

Arizona now has 5 recognized commitments within the 2023 recruiting class, however that quantity figures to leap within the subsequent few days since Fisch has been sending out quite a few iterations of his dancing cactus gif tweets that signify a dedication.