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Kentucky football gains a commitment from a top 100 edge rusher

Edge rusher Cedric Works has committed to Kentucky football for 2025.

Last week, Kentucky football received a prediction to land edge rusher Cedric Works. This was terrific news, as Works is a very talented, and highly ranked player. He’s the kind of player that the Wildcats don’t often get. On Thursday, he became a Wildcat.

Works is a top 100 players in the 2025 class according to 247sports. They have him as the number 86 player overall and the 11th ranked edge. The four-star prospect is another Ohio native, which is a place Kentucky has recruited well.

Related: Receiver Preston Bowman commits to Kentucky

Mark Stoops and his staff are putting together a very talented recruiting class for 2025. Works is the fourth recruit with a rating of four stars, and is their second addition inside the top 200 overall players.

Kentucky has been a good team for several seasons, and a regular bowl team. The next step would be to get more top recruits to compete with the teams at the top of the SEC. Getting a player like Works is a step in that direction.

Kentucky football predicted to land a top 100 player from the 2025 class

Edge rusher Cedric Works is predicted to commit to Kentucky football.

This week, Mark Stoops and Kentucky football landed a commitment from three-star defensive lineman Nicholas Smith. On Saturday, the received a prediction to land another edge rusher in the form of Cedric Works.

Works is a top 100 player in the 2025 recruiting class according to 247sports. He’s the 11th ranked edge rusher in the class, and ranks as their sixth player in the state of Ohio. Both 247sports and On3 are projecting Works to commit to Kentucky.

Related: Cornerback Demarcus Gardner commits to Kentucky

The Georgia Bulldogs and Florida Gators have each made offers to Works as well, and he visited the Gators earlier in June. He also visited Penn State in May. His visit to Lexington occurred on Friday, after which the predictions that he’s join the Cats were made.

Kentucky is putting together a solid recruiting class for the 2025 season. They have already added three players with four-star ratings, and Works would be a fourth. The athletic edge rusher would be a fantastic addition, and could be the next in a line of very good pass rushers to come to Lexington.

Four-star edge rusher impressed by Penn State on official visit

Penn State could be a rising contender for this four-star edge rusher in the Class of 2025.

Penn State has plenty of work to do in their class of 2025, and while 13 commits on the board right now aren’t quite where they want to be, there’s a chance that number increases substantially over the next couple of weeks following their official visit weekends.

Based on the busy summer calendars for a lot of the top recruits across the country, the Nittany Lions could find themselves battling it out for many of their top targets into the fall.

That would be a bit different than what they experienced in the last cycle, but each year offers various challenges, especially in this new NIL world.

So, coming out of their first major official visit weekend, some information is now being reported about where Penn State stands in the recruitment of those who were on campus.

One they seemed to impress was four-star edge rusher [autotag]Cedric Works[/autotag].

This was a late-blooming relationship as they only first offered him in February even after he took his first visit in the fall. However, once they extended a scholarship, things have started to rapidly progress.

The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Ohio native is ranked as the No. 86 player in the country and 11-best at his position by 247Sports.

Without a single defensive lineman committed to their 2025 recruiting class, [autotag]Deion Barnes[/autotag] is looking to close on a strong note and has become heavily involved in trying to land Works.

Tyler Calvaruso of 247Sports caught up with the edge rusher coming out his visit and it sounds like they have put themselves in solid position to land him. He was able to see the hard-working culture that has been established in his position group and got to know his host [autotag]Jameial Lyons[/autotag] better and saw how someone with a similar background has succeeded at Penn State (subscription required).

Works has more upcoming official visits on his calendar to see Cincinnati, Florida, and Kentucky. Once those conclude he’s expecting to have a decision before his senior season of high school begins.

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Georgia football offers 4-star pass rusher Cedric Works

The Georgia Bulldogs have offered a scholarship to elite pass rusher Cedric Works

The Georgia Bulldogs have offered a scholarship to four-star pass rusher Cedric Works. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound pass rusher plays high school football for Northmont High School in Dayton, Ohio.

On3 ranks Cedric Works as the No. 258 recruit in the country and the No. 20 edge rusher. Works is considered the No. 10 player in Ohio in the class of 2025.

The four-star pass rusher has scholarship offers from West Virginia, Cincinnati, Purdue, and more Power Five schools. As a junior, the talented pass rusher recorded 82 tackles and 6.5 sacks.

In his film, Works shows good effort in pursuit and does an excellent job of getting his hands up to knock down passes. The Northmont standout has versatility. He often drops into coverage, but is also very effective rushing the quarterback.

Works announced his scholarship offer from the University of Georgia via social media.

Head coach Kirby Smart and Georgia have the No. 3 recruiting class in the 2025 cycle according to On3. The Bulldogs already have six commitments in the class of 2025.