The Bruins football team got some promising news this week. After being listed as a finalist for 2024 four-star edge rusher Chinedu Onyeagoro, one of his finalists lost an official visit.
Onyeagoro, from the King Drew Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles, California, listed UCLA as one of his top schools, along with Washington, Georgia, Florida, Miami (FL), Arizona, Arizona State, Clemson, Northwestern, and SMU. But this week, Onyeagoro said that he will no longer visit Washington officially.
Washington and UCLA have been in several key recruiting battles since the turn of the new year and with Onyeagoro retracting his official visit, the Bruins now have one fewer team to beat out.
I Will No longer be taking an OV to the University of Washington. @GregBiggins @BrandonHuffman @adamgorney @ChadSimmons_ @ScottEklund
— Chinedu Onyeagoro 4⭐️EDGE (@ch1nedu1) June 19, 2024
Though it is not a guarantee that Onyeagoro will commit to UCLA, it does show that Washington has far sway following the departure of head coach Kalen DeBoer. The only California school left in his finalists, the Bruins have home-field advantage in the recruiting battle as more and more commitments pile up for UCLA.