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UCF football just landed four commitments in five days

Over a five-day stretch, UCF football got the commitment of four players, including 4-star Isaiah Nixon and 3-star QB Dylan Rizk.

Don’t look now, but the 2023 recruiting class of UCF and Gus Malzahn is starting to pick up steam. In a five-day stretch over the last week, the Knights picked up four commits, including three-star quarterback Dylan Rizk and a four-star edge rusher Isaiah Nixon.

In addition to Rizk and Nixon, offensive tackle Jamal Meriweather and three-star tight end tight end Jayvontay Conner committed to the Knights.

Rizk was the latest of the high school players to commit to UCF. As a junior, he helped lead Fort Lauderdale, Fla. powerhouse Cardinal Gibbons to a championship, marking the school’s second title in a row and third in the last four seasons. He passed for 1,971 yards, 17 touchdowns and 10 interceptions and rushed 58 times for 456 yards and eight touchdowns, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Listed at 6-foot-2, he is ranked on the 247Sports Composite as the No. 53 QB in the country.

Nixon is so far heralded as the best player in the class. Ranked as the No. 25 EDGE rusher and No. 266 player overall in the class of 2023, he is the sole four-star that has committed to UCF at this time. Another commit out of Florida, the Lakewood (Saint Petersburg, Fl.) junior committed on April 16.

Conner, who plays for East Forsyth (Kernersville, N.C.), committed on Wednesday. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound tight end had 43 offers, according to his 247Sports page. In his junior season, he had 24 receptions for 405 yards and six touchdowns, per Pokes Report.

Meriweather, who committed on April 17, was unranked by 247Sports. Hailing from Brunswick (Ga.) High School, the offensive lineman is listed at 6-foot-6.5 and 259 pounds.

With those four additions, UCF has moved up to No. 19 overall on 247Sports recruiting rankings. It will be immensely difficult for the school to stay in the top 20, given as the majority of five-star prospects have yet to commit and Alabama and Clemson only have three commits apiece — and are therefore ranked below UCF — but it’s an excellent start after rising incrementally each year from 2020 (No. 78) to 2022 (No. 40, as of April 23).

Michigan State football offers 3-star QB Dylan Rizk out of Florida

Michigan State football offers 3-star QB Dylan Rizk out of Florida

On Tuesday, Michigan State football offered 3-star quarterback Dylan Rizk out of Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Rizk is the No. 36 ranked QB in the 2023 class by 247Sports and their no. 578 ranked player overall.

Rizk is 6’2″, 200-pounds and has offers out from Appalachian State, Indiana, Kentucky, UCF and now MSU.

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Sunshine State QB ‘was very comfortable’ around Streeter, Clemson

A talented Sunshine State signal-caller hit the road this summer to visit a lot of schools, including Clemson. Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Cardinal Gibbons 2023 quarterback Dylan Rizk traveled to campus in June to compete at the Dabo Swinney Camp and …

A talented Sunshine State signal-caller hit the road this summer to visit a lot of schools, including Clemson.

Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Cardinal Gibbons 2023 quarterback Dylan Rizk traveled to campus in June to compete at the Dabo Swinney Camp and then spent some individual time with quarterbacks coach Brandon Streeter following the camp workout.

“I was very comfortable around Coach Streeter,” Rizk told The Clemson Insider recently, reflecting on the visit. “He made me feel real comfortable. He’s a really nice guy. The first time I met him, it’s like I’ve known him for a long time. So, I was really comfortable being around there.”

Rizk, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound junior with several scholarship offers under his belt, has been in touch with Streeter since he was on campus June 10 but expects to communicate with him more come Sept. 1, when college football coaches can begin directly contacting junior prospects in the class of 2023.

“I’ve been in contact with him a little bit,” Rizk said. “I’m definitely going to hear more when September 1st comes, that’s for sure.”

Streeter has let Rizk know that he will be keeping an eye on Rizk, who transferred to Cardinal Gibbons High School from American Heritage High (Plantation, Fla.) following the 2020 season.

“He’s just telling me he’s really excited to watch my first few games,” Rizk said. “Many colleges have actually told me that. They’re just very excited to watch my first few games of my junior season, and they’re going to make a decision probably based off of that. I’ve already developed a great relationship with Coach Streeter, and he wants me to go down there for one of the Clemson games at home. So, it’s good.”

Rizk said he is “definitely going to make it” to Death Valley this season, while Notre Dame and Florida are other schools he named that he wants to see games at in the fall. Along with Clemson, he visited schools such as Florida, Miami, Georgia and LSU this summer, to name some.

As a sophomore in 2020, Rizk was named The Palm Beach Post Offensive Player of the Year after completing 69 percent of his passes for 2,075 yards and 17 touchdowns, adding 298 rushing yards and three more scores on the ground while leading American Heritage to the Class 4A-Region 4 final, where they lost to eventual state champions Cardinal Gibbons.

Describing himself as a quarterback, Rizk said one of his best characteristics is that he’ll “never give up.”

“I think that’s one of the most important things about being a quarterback is always being calm and just never giving up at the end of the day because you’re the general of the field, everyone else is going to follow you around the field,” he added. “So, you’ve got to be cool and calm and collected around the field, around your players.”

UCF, Kentucky, Indiana, Appalachian State and Troy have offered Rizk, who would obviously be thrilled if Streeter and Clemson were to come calling with an offer in the future.

“That would be a blessing to have an offer from one of the top schools in the nation,” he said. “That’s definitely a great offer to have and it’d definitely be in consideration.”

Rizk, who was named QB MVP of the Under Armour Miami Camp in March, is the younger brother of Miami quarterback Ryan Rizk.

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