Tag: Class of 2025

LOOK: NFL legacy Jerome Bettis Jr. visits Alabama on Junior Day

Alabama hosts NFL legacy Jerome Bettis Jr. during Junior Day!

Over the weekend Alabama hosted its annual Junior Day on campus as recruits from the class of 2025 flocked to Tuscaloosa.

One such visitor was the son of an NFL legend and Hall of Fame member.

According to multiple reports, Jerome Bettis Jr., the son of the former Pittsburgh Steeler was on campus in Tuscaloosa.

Currently, the Atlanta native is not ranked by any of the major recruiting services but the fact that he making trips to places like Alabama is a good sign for the future.

Instead of being a punishing running back like his father, Bettis Jr. is a wide receiver that stands at 6’2″ and 175 pounds.

Roll Tide Wire will continue to follow Alabama’s involvement in Bettis Jr.’s recruitment throughout the process.

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Penn State hosts Class of 2025 target Trent Wilson

Top Class of 2025 target with Penn State offer makes visit to Happy Valley

Penn State is weeks away from finishing off its Class of 2023 and the effort is already being put in to get a jump on the Class of 2024. But that hasn’t stopped the staff from looking even further down the line in the Class of 2025. And on Saturday, Penn State hosted one of the potential top targets in the Class of 2025 along with other recruiting targets in upcoming recruiting classes.

[autotag]Trent Wilson[/autotag], a Class of 2025 from Washington D.C., took to Twitter to share some of his experience from his day in Happy Valley. Wilson’s visit to Penn State is notable because he already holds an offer from Penn State.

Penn State reached out to Wilson with an offer for a scholarship in June 2022. A number of schools have sent out offers already, including Notre Dame, Georgia, and USC to name a few.

Wilson is clearly among the top targets for Penn State in the Class of 2025, once the work is done on the Class of 2023, and of course the Class of 2024. And odds are this will not be Wilson’s final trip to Penn State before he makes a commitment decision down the line.

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Tigers offer 2025 cornerback out of Florida

Auburn has now offered 30 recruits from the 2025 class.

No recruiting class is too far out, and coach [autotag]Bryan Harsin[/autotag] is on the trail for the long haul.

Miami corner Antonio Branch Jr. announced on Twitter that he had received a preliminary offer from Harsin and Auburn on Friday. Branch is a 2025 prospect out of Miami, Florida, and because his class is so far out he is currently unranked on 247Sports and other recruiting websites. So far, Branch has offers from home-state schools of Florida State, Miami and UCF — Auburn is the first out-of-state school to shoot an offer Branch’s way.

Despite the class being so far out, the Tigers have been surprisingly busy for the 2025 circuit. While Branch is only the second corner that the Tigers have offered, Auburn has put out 30 offers to 2025 prospects across the board. Of course, none of them have committed yet, but the dedication that far out into the future is certainly a statement for the coaching staff and the program.

Branch stands at 6’2″, 172 pounds and currently plays for Booker T. Washington High School in Miami.

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Dana Altman extends offer to 4-star center Jayden Quanintance in class of 2025

Dana Altman and the Oregon Ducks extended an offer to 2025 4-star center Jayden Quanintance, becoming the third Pac-12 school to do so.

Dana Altman has had an incredibly busy summer. In addition to prepping for what should be an exciting 2022-23 season, Altman built one of the best recruiting classes in school history for 2023.

Mookie Cook, KJ Evans, and Jackson Shelstad is an elite class, and the staff has continued to keep tabs on Bronny James and Andrej Stojakovic as well.

Additionally, Altman has continued looking for talent in the 2024 and 2025 classes, reportedly making an offer to 2025 4-star center prospect Jayden Quanintance out of Hillcrest Prep High School.

Quanintance is just a sophomore, but his 6’9 frame and athleticism have him already ranked among the top 30 players in his class, per 247Sports.

Altman is the fifth head coach to officially offer Quanintance, although he will almost certainly pick up many, many more in the next year depending how he performs at Hillcrest and over the summer circuit.

Regardless, it never hurts to get your name in on someone early. Here is more about Quanintance and his recruitment up to this point.

Jayden Quanintance’s Recruiting Profile

Georgia football offers pair of 2025 QB recruits

The Georgia Bulldogs have offered scholarships to a pair of rising sophomore quarterback recruits in Stone Saunders and Michael Tollefson

The Georgia Bulldogs have offered scholarships to a pair of rising sophomore quarterback recruits. Firstly, the Dawgs offered California quarterback prospect Michael Tollefson. Secondly, the Dawgs offered Pennsylvania quarterback Stone Saunders.

Both players are unranked due to their young age, but have both received considerable recruiting interest.

Michael Tollefson plays high school football for San Juan Hills High School in San Juan Capistrano, California. Tollefson is a good student.

The San Juan Hill star impressed coaches at camps this summer. His performances helped him earn offers from schools like Tennessee, Texas A&M, and Georgia.

The 6-foot-1, 175-pound quarterback has already racked up over a dozen scholarship offers.

Michael Tollefson announced his scholarship offer from Georgia football via Twitter:

Stone Saunders plays high school football for Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Per his Twitter, Stone Saunders threw for over 3,000 yards last season. Additionally, he finished the year with 46 touchdowns.

The talented rising sophomore has scholarship offers from schools like Texas A&M, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin, and more. Saunders has recently visited Texas A&M and Oklahoma.

The 6-foot-2, 195-pound quarterback is one of the top recruits in Pennsylvania.

Stone Saunders shared that the defending national champions offered a scholarship to him in late June:

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Penn State’s big recruiting weekend includes visit from USC commit

USC and Utah commits among those visiting Penn State after first week of spring football practices

Penn State is wrapping up its first week of spring football practices with a big recruiting weekend. Penn State is hosting a number of recruits this weekend, opening the doors to spring football practices to current commits and targets in the next three recruiting cycles.

Lions247 has a full list of players scheduled to make a visit to Penn State this weekend. Among the players visiting includes a number of Class of 2022 commits who have not been able to enroll early, including Cornell transfer offensive lineman [autotag]Hunter Nourzad[/autotag] and Lackawanna College JUCO transfer [autotag]Tyrece Mills[/autotag]. [autotag]Drew Shelton[/autotag], another prize in the recruiting class for 2022 is also set to be in town.

Some members of the Class of 2023 are also checking out the scene this weekend with [autotag]Alex Birchmeier[/autotag] and [autotag]Anthony Donkoh[/autotag] scheduled to be making a visit. Penn State will also be hosting a number of targets in the Class of 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Among the recruits visiting Penn State in the Class of 2025 is currently committed to USC. Defensive back Arron White has been a hard commit to the Trojans since last September, before the coaching change with the program, so it remains to be seen just how serious a candidate Penn State will ultimately be for White, who is an Orange, California native. Regardless, having White on campus is still noticeable for a player not scheduled to join the college ranks for another three years.

White isn’t the only Pac-12 commit in town either. Wide receiver Kobe Boykin, another product out of Orange, California, is currently committed to Utah’s Class of 2024. Could Penn State manage to flip a couple of Pac-12 commits? Time will tell, but Penn State will hope to leave a solid impression on these and other recruits this weekend.

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LOOK: Alabama offers a pair of in-state prospects

Nick Saban and Alabama offer a pair of in-state prospects

Signing day for the class of 2022 is still a couple of weeks away, but that hasn’t stopped Nick Saban and the Alabama staff from offering future prospects.

Just this weekend the staff has offered a pair of in-state prospects in four-star defensive lineman prospect Hunter Osborne from the class of 2023 and 2025 running back prospect Anthony Rogers.

Osborne is a talented interior defensive lineman prospect from Hewitt-Trussville High School while Rogers is just a freshman from Pike Road that is already generating a lot of buzz around the state of Alabama.

Both Osborne and Rogers announced their offers on their Twitter pages.

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Freshman get’s Notre Dame offer after impressive first high school season

He did what as a freshman?

The most important position on the football field is the quarterback and finding a great one is always the focus of many teams recruiting goals. Well, the Irish are ahead of boat on one of the most recent offers, as they verbally gave Michigan quarterback Bryce Jay Underwood an offer.

Underwood just recently finished his freshman year at Bellwood High School, but it was a wildly successful one. He threw for 3,000-yards and 39-touchdowns while leading them to a state title. That kind of success as a freshman will get plenty of eyes on a recruit, especially one that was named MaxPreps National Freshman of the Year.

It is super early in Underwood’s career but he surely has the attention of the Irish and most likely other schools will soon be trying to get in contact with the rising sophomore.

Notre Dame running back commit Audric Estime tweets workout photos

In December, Notre Dame got a steal when running back recruit Audric Estime flipped to the Irish from Michigan State.

In December, Notre Dame got a steal when running back recruit Audric Estime flipped to the Irish from Michigan State. Even though this recruiting win over a regional rival undoubtedly excited many Irish fans, some might have decided they would feel a little better once they saw Estime actually going about his activities in Notre Dame gear. That time has arrived because Estime sent out this tweet earlier:

Estime will join Logan Diggs as a running back signee for the incoming class of players. These two are coming in at a time when the Irish already are stacked at the position. Kyren Williams, Chris Tyree and C’Bo Flemister have provided more than enough production there and are expected to continue that in 2021. That being the case, it might take a while before either Estime or Diggs see significant playing time. It’s a good problem for running backs coach Lance Taylor, who has more studs on his unit than he likely knows what to do with.

Inside linebacker recruit Davis Sherwood commits to Notre Dame

St. Patrick’s Day has been terrific for Notre Dame’s linebacker corps on the recruiting front.

St. Patrick’s Day has been terrific for Notre Dame’s linebacker corps on the recruiting front. Earlier in the day, the Irish got a commitment from the highly touted Joshua Burnham. While Burnham won’t arrive for another year, the Irish’s linebackers will get an immediate addition from another recruit who also committed Wednesday. His name is Davis Sherwood, and he’s set to graduate from Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney, Maryland:

The Irish definitely could use some reinforcements at inside linebackers after the graduations of Drew White and Bo Bauer. Sherwood, who weighs in at 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, is a good candidate to keep Notre Dame’s recent success at that position going. He was a captain and all-conference player in high school, and he also plays lacrosse. At the very least, he has the toughness to compete with athletes at the next level.

Sherwood scored a 1450 on the PSAT and has a 4.6 GPA, so it should come as no surprise that many Ivy League schools and nearly all military schools were after his services. Instead, he’ll go with the university with a richer football history and a solid academic reputation of its own. It’s difficult to argue against that, so kudos to Dave Peloquin for working his magic.