New tight ends coach Kyle Richardson traveled a long way to convey his first offer as position coach.

Richardson flew Wednesday to extend an offer to New Hope (Minn.) Robbinsdale Cooper four-star junior Jaxon Howard.

As we wrote in last week's Recruting Big Board series, Howard (6-4, 235) -- ranked No. 99 nationally by Rivals.com -- has been a bit of an enigma. He was slated to commit somewhere last month -- no one we've talked to quite knows where -- before he quietly backed off because of the coaching carousel.

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His top 12 released in September featured Minnesota, Michigan, Stanford, Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Alabama, Oregon, Florida, Arizona State and UNC.