Social media reacts: 4-Star EDGE Danny Okoye commits to the Oklahoma Sooners

Social media reacts to the commitment of 2024 four-star DE Danny Okoye, another blue chip DL for 2024 and the No. 1 player in the state of Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Sooners football program has done an incredible job on the recruiting trail since arriving in Norman in December of 2021. They’ve secured a pair of top-ten classes, one of which was a top-five class in the 2023 cycle. They look well on their way to another great recruiting class in 2024.

The latest addition was in-state talent [autotag]Danny Okoye[/autotag], a four-star prospect who plays for NOAH. He’s an incredible athlete who can do backflips at 6-foot-4 and 240 lbs and deadlift more than three times his weight at over 700 pounds.

Danny Okoye’s commitment highlights the work the Sooners have done this cycle to put together an incredible group along the defensive line. Okoye joins [autotag]David Stone[/autotag], [autotag]Nigel Smith[/autotag], [autotag]Jayden Jackson[/autotag], and [autotag]Wyatt Gilmore[/autotag] in the 2024 cycle. When this group gets to Norman, it will arguably be the best defensive line recruiting hall in the history of the program and also provide incredible competitive depth to the Sooners defensive front.

With Okoye, they added a disruptive talent who has a chance to be an elite pass rusher at the next level.

With the addition of Okoye, the Sooners move up to No. 7 in the 247Sports team rankings, No. 5 over at Rivals, and No. 8 in On3’s rankings.

Brent Venables and his staff have the Sooners recruiting elite defensive prospects again and here’s how social media reacted.

Florida impressing as top-10 QB mulls over his college decision

Four-star quarterback Jaden Rashada is in the home stretch of his recruitment and Florida is hoping to land on top after hosting him on an official visit.

Four-star quarterback [autotag]Jaden Rashada[/autotag] just wrapped a busy week filled with three official visits that ended at the University of Florida on Thursday, and now he has just under a week to make his college decision.

Rashada set a commitment date of June 18 for himself and is currently trying to narrow things down from a top seven to a single school. Cal, LSU, Miami, Ole Miss, Oregon and Texas A&M are the other schools in the mix, with the Aggies and Tigers being the other two that hosted him recently. The west coast schools are in the mix because Rashada is from Pittsburg, California, but Florida has offered a taste of home on the east coast.

“I think ([autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag]) is a really good communicator and good teacher,” Rashada’s father, Harlen, said to Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports. “I think Florida is going to do really good things. I think he is one of the brighter young coaches in the SEC. Florida is different because they have a Cali kind of vibe. They have a lot of staff from California. You drive around, you kind of feel like you’re in Walnut Creek or something. It doesn’t feel like you’re really in the South but we did see gators on campus, that was different.”

There’s a lot to consider in the next week for Rashada, but his father said that making that final run to the three SEC schools was good for him. He also reminds his son that Jaden is the only one who has set the June 18 date and can take more time if he needs it.

It’s hard to say where exactly Florida falls on Rashada’s list right now, but the 6-foot-4-inch, 185-pound left Gainesville last week impressed with Napier’s group.

The 247Sports composite ranks him as the No. 45 overall recruit in the class of 2023 and the No. 7 quarterback. Napier is running out of options for a quarterback, and it seems that he’s all in on Rashada at this point. He can only hope that the feeling is mutual.

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Gators add final touch to 2022 recruiting class with this 4-star athlete

Add one more name to the list! Florida’s recruiting class of 2022 just got bigger.

National signing day may be in the rearview mirror, but it’s not too late to add to the class of 2022.

Billy Napier did just that on Wednesday by earning the commitment of four-star athlete Arlis Boardingham. It came down to the wire between Florida and Oregon. After visiting both schools late in the cycle, the Van Nuys, California athlete decided to delay his announcement until a week after national signing day.

The big moment came just after 6:30 p.m. EST on CBS Sports HQ. Boardingham teased both schools before placing the orange cap on his head and giving a celebratory chomp.

“It was a tough decision,” Boardingham said, according to 247Sports. “That’s why I couldn’t decide last week when the signing period started up. I wanted to give myself a few extra days but late last week, probably around Thursday is when I felt good about it.”

Despite being across the country from his high school, Boardingham said he felt more comfortable at Florida than anywhere else. Wide receivers coach Keary Colbert and tight ends coach William Peagler were his main contacts at the university along with head coach Napier.

The 6-foot-4-inch, 220-pounder played on both sides of the ball as a senior and could do the same at the college level. He’s most likely to contribute on offense at tight end, but he can also play defensive end and linebacker.

Boardingham is the No. 31 athlete in the country, according to the 247Sports Composite. Florida’s 2022 recruiting class jumped up to No. 16 overall and No. 7 in the Southeastern Conference by adding him.

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