Wisconsin top class of 2025 target edge rusher Jayden Woods committed to Penn State on Wednesday.
The four-star recruit chose the Nittany Lions over the Badgers, Tennessee Volunteers and Purdue Boilermakers. He did so after official visits to all four of his finalists — Wisconsin on May 31, Penn State on June 7, Purdue on June 14 and Tennessee most recently on June 21.
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The top edge rusher is ranked as 247Sports’ No. 215 player in the class of 2025, No. 18 edge rusher and No. 5 recruit from his home state of Kansas. He joins a Penn State class of 2025 that 247Sports now ranks No. 6 overall in the nation and No. 2 in the new Big Ten landscape.
The talented edge rusher was one of Wisconsin’s top remaining targets in the class of 2025. Not only is he is one of the only players from the program’s May 31 official visit weekend to commit elsewhere, but his commitment also follows a string of negative news for the Badgers this week — first four-star CB Rukeem Stroud flipped his commitment to UCF, then top target CB Tre Poteat committed to Tennessee.
BREAKING: Four-Star EDGE Jayden Woods has Committed to Penn State, he tells me for @on3recruits
The 6’4 240 EDGE from Shawnee, KS chose the Nittany Lions over Wisconsin, Tennessee, & Purdue
“Ready and excited to get to work with the best school for edge rushers, Couldn’t be… pic.twitter.com/Jr083zCShY
— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) June 26, 2024
Wisconsin’s class of 2025 has fallen to No. 15 in the nation over the last week. The group currently has 20 commitments, one from an edge rusher (three-star Nicolas Clayton).
Attention now turns to Wisconsin’s top remaining targets: four-star DL Kade Pietrzak, four-star RB Byron Louis and four-star iOL Hardy Watts. The Badgers will need a late push in those recruiting battles if they are to reverse their downward trend in the class of 2025 rankings.
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