USC adds commitment of TCU DT transfer Earl Barquet

New USC caput shot manager Lincoln Riley added his archetypal caller subordinate retired of the transportation portal connected Monday, earning the committedness of erstwhile TCU antiaircraft tackle Earl Barquet.

Barquet, who announced his determination connected Twitter, is simply a 6-foot-3, 277-pound lineman who comes to USC with 3 years of eligibility remaining.

COMMITTED❤️💛✌🏾 @USC_FB pic.twitter.com/QGMS7LZ0g5

— Earl barquet 97 (@Sleepe24) December 14, 2021

A redshirt sophomore this season, Barquet had 12 tackles for the Horned Frogs. Barquet had 2.5 sacks successful his archetypal play of action.

The Louisiana autochthonal is an summation astatine an important presumption of request for USC and Riley this offseason. The Trojans had fewer steadfast contributors astatine antiaircraft tackle this season, often utilizing ends Tuli Tuipulotu and Jake Lichtenstein wrong and converting freshman violative lineman Maximus Gibbs into a antiaircraft tackle and really playing a important relation for USC astatine that caller position.

Even if Ishmael Sopsher (compartment syndrome surgery) and Brandon Pili (Achilles tear) get steadfast capable to lend adjacent season, USC needed a subordinate similar Barquet with Power Five league acquisition who tin measurement successful instantly and assistance a radical mostly populated by underclassmen.