Rutgers football sent out an offer last week to [autotag]Kristopher Jones[/autotag], a linebacker from Virginia. With the offer, the Scarlet Knights are getting involved in a recruiting battle with some of the best programs in the nation for one of the best players in the nation.
Jones, a class of 2024 recruit, is a four-star athlete by 247Sports. He is the No. 3 player in Virginia, the No. 8 linebacker nationally and the No. 137 athlete overall according to the recruiting site.
He has an offer list that includes Arizona State, Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and West Virginia among others. A few programs are beginning to distinguish themselves in his recruitment:
“Penn State, Arizona State, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame and Rutgers,” Jones said in an interview this week about the schools that are after him the hardest.
Check out what Jones had to say about his recruitment as the class of 2024 standout has a busy offseason planned.
He talks about his recent offer from Big Ten program Rutgers as well as his thoughts on Penn State and Notre Dame and how they are factoring into his recruitment.