FORT COLLINS — Dude’s a dude of his word.

“I feel like he welcomed me with open arms,” Ralston Valley tailback Chase Wilson said of new CSU Rams football coach Steve Addazio, who hauled his dude backside to Arvada on Friday to catch up with the Mustangs star and Rams 2020 commit.

“(Addazio) hadn’t been in Colorado for 24 hours, yet he was already driving down to have an hour-long conversation. So that was really special.”

The 6-foot-2 Wilson, who projects as a safety/linebacker, says he’ll sign with the Rams on Wednesday once the fax machines start firing up for the early National Signing Day period. Done deal.

And he’s signing, in part, because Addazio made a point to drive down to see him, a point to get face-time with the local recruits he hadn’t met yet, a point to circle the wagons before the poachers come calling again.

“(Addazio) made me feel like just part of the family,” Wilson said.

Those families can turn dysfunctional in early December, especially when the coach at the head of the table is a complete stranger. When you’ve got a regime change, and the new regime doesn’t have much time to steady the boat, anything’s possible.

Griffin Brewster, a pro-style passer from Rome, Ga., with a 3-star ranking from 247Sports, announced his de-commitment from CSU on Wednesday afternoon, not long after Addazio was formally announced as Mike Bobo’s replacement.

Wilson, for his part, says he’s not going anywhere.

And he doesn’t expect the other eight firm commitments Addazio inherited from Bobo to leave the fold, either, over the next handful of days.

“From what I’ve (heard) from all the guys, even the out-of-state-guys, everyone is on board right now,” Wilson told The Denver Post. “Everyone wants to be a Ram.

“Everyone still knows all the potential that we have. I’m pretty sure everyone’s still on board right now. Everyone seems solid.”

Wilson, who helped lead the Mustangs to the Class 5A semis, where they fell to eventual state runner-up Columbine, didn’t dig the uncertainty and CSU candidate roulette — to Butch Jones, or not to Butch Jones? — over the previous 10 days.

But once Addazio was introduced at Canvas Stadium, the teen started scouring the internet for Tim Tebow highlights from the fall of 2009, when the former Broncos quarterback was behind center as a senior at Florida, and Addazio was his offensive coordinator. And he got all kinds of stoked again.

“(Addazio) definitely knows how to win,” Wilson said.

“Right now, I just have my heart set on CSU. There’s something about the place, about representing your own state, that’s special to me. And I love Colorado. And now that we have a coaching staff coming, I’m ready to roll. And especially with these commits that seem to still be on board, we can do something really special for the program.”

Dude might not be Tony Alford. Dude might not know Sherrelwood from Shinola. But he ain’t messing around.

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