 Seven members of the 2016 recruiting class requested to be released from their National Letter of Intent, and six of the then-seven commits in the 2017 recruiting class decommitted.Tevin Elliot was signed from Mount Pleasant High School in 2009 and joined the Baylor football team as a redshirt.At one point in 2011, Elliot was suspended for academic misconduct, but Starr lifted the suspension.