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Elijah Brown tops list of the 7 highest-ranked weekend college commitments

Here are the seven-best high school football players who made college commitments this weekend.

Some high-end talent came off the board in the recruiting race this weekend. The biggest prize went to Stanford, who got a commitment from Mater Dei (Calif.) four-star quarterback Elijah Brown. Ole Miss was also able to pick up a blue-chip QB recruit of their own, and several other recruits ranked in the top 100 also made their college commitments.

Here are the seven best high school football players who made college commitments this weekend, going by On3’s national rankings.

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USC 2024 target Elijah Brown named an Elite 11 finalist

No Dylan Raiola? No problem for #USC if the Trojans get Elijah Brown.

The 2023 Elite 11 Finals event is almost here. Some of the nation’s top signal-callers have already been invited to Los Angeles for the premier annual quarterback showcase, which takes place June 14-16.

Notable names such as Caleb Williams, Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, Jameis Winston, Bryce Young, Jared Goff, Kyler Murray and Andrew Luck among many other NFL and college stars have participated in the event over the years. There could be another potential USC Trojan quarterback included in the Elite 11 fraternity this season. USC 2024 target Elijah Brown of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana (Calif.) was recently announced as a finalist.

Brown ranks as the No. 33 player in the country and is the top ranked uncommitted quarterback in the class.

With Dylan Raiola committing to the Georgia Bulldogs for 2024, it seems that Elijah Brown is very likely to become a USC Trojan soon.

The 6-foot-1 1/2, 197-pound senior has thrived at Mater Dei. He threw for 2,785 yards and 31 touchdowns while completing 68% of his passes last season. He is 29-1 as a starter with a state and national title under his belt.

“Brown plays with a poise and maturity rarely seen at the HS level,” said 247Sports national recruiting analyst Greg Biggins. “He has started every game since his freshman season and has never looked overwhelmed while playing against top-level competition. He’s a very accurate thrower and will stand in the pocket as long as possible to get a throw off. He’s one of the better deep-ball throwers as well and has a really natural feel for throwing on time and throwing players open. He doesn’t run much but is a good athlete and does a nice job making that initial pass rusher miss and extending a play.”

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Real talk about Malachi Nelson, Dylan Raiola, Elijah Brown, and the USC QB room

If Dylan Raiola had committed to #USC, would Malachi Nelson have stayed? We’ll never know the answer to that question, but it’s a fascinating topic.

USC lost out on the top recruit in the 2024 class, Dylan Raiola. It would be easier to minimize this recruiting loss if Lincoln Riley didn’t make a robust effort to land his next great quarterback at Heritage Hall. This is competition. It’s supposed to hurt when any competitor goes hard but doesn’t get rewarded and obtain the desired outcome. USC would be in a better position for the future if it had Dylan Raiola. We can admit that. Yet, we can also say it’s not the full story.

Imagine a world in which Dylan Raiola did in fact commit to USC. What then? As good as that would have been for USC, it wouldn’t have been a consequence-free event. New plot points would have emerged if Raiola had committed to the Trojans.

On our recent show with Mark Rogers at The Voice of College Football, we walked through some of these scenarios.

Let’s dive into this discussion and offer a few other notes from our recent USC show with Mark:

Dylan Raiola’s commitment only leaves one top 10 QB uncommitted

Only the No. 7 quarterback remains uncommitted in the top 10.

The biggest target in the 2024 college football recruiting class has made his commitment. We saw this before when Dylan Raiola originally committed to play for the Ohio State Buckeyes before backing off and re-opening his commitment.

Of the teams that have pledges among the top 10 quarterbacks, two notable schools are missing. Both the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns picked up five-star quarterbacks in the 2023 cycle and are less likely to go after a top name in this class. However, I would imagine they will be back in the market in the 2025 cycle.

Top quarterbacks per 247Sports composite:

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  1. Dylan Raiola, Georgia (Pinnacle in Phoenix, AZ)
  2. Julian Sayin, Alabama (Carlsbad, CA)
  3. DJ Lagway, Florida (Willis, TX)
  4. Jadyn Davis, Michigan (Providence Day School in Charlotte, NC)
  5. CJ Carr, Notre Dame (Saline, MI)
  6. Air Noland, Ohio State (Langston Hughes in Fairburn, GA)
  7. Elijah Brown, uncommitted (Mater Dei in Santa Ana, CA)
  8. Jake Merklinger, Tennessee (Calvary Day School in Savannah, GA)
  9. Walker White, Auburn (Little Rock Christian Academy in Little Rock, AR)
  10. Luke Kromenhoek, Florida State (Benedictine Military School in Savannah, GA)

The interesting dynamic for Georgia will revolve around how many quarterbacks they will take in the 2024 class. Prior to the commitment from the No. 1 overall prospect, they already held a commitment from the No. 12 quarterback out of Connecticut, Ryan Puglisi. He is the No. 200 overall prospect and a four-star.

Taking two quarterbacks in a class isn’t unheard of but the Bulldogs already have a plethora of quarterbacks on the current roster with Carson Beck, Gunner Stockton, and Brock Vandagriff. Obviously in the transfer portal era, your depth chart could be wiped out in a moment’s notice. But with the portal’s second window closed, this isn’t something that Kirby Smart has to worry about until next December.

As for Elijah Brown, his recruitment should get kicked into overdrive with Oregon, Southern California, and Nebraska all whiffing on the prize recruit of the 2024 cycle.

The aforementioned Trojans are in a three-horse race with rivals UCLA and Stanford for the pledge of the fringe five-star quarterback.

The arms race continues in college football.

Former Alabama TE, Elijah Brown, announces transfer to FAU

Former Alabama TE announces transfer location to Florida Atlantic

The most recent of 17 former Alabama football players to announce his transfer destination this offseason is tight-end, Elijah Brown, who announced via social media on Monday that he would be continuing his collegiate career with the Florida Atlantic Owls. Brown is the only one of the Alabama transfers to not land at another Power Five program, but he will be teaming up with former Texas head coach Tom Herman.

Brown only spent one year in Tuscaloosa after enrolling early in January of 2022. He has a massive frame at 6-foot-5, 250 pounds and will certainly find a role in the Owls’ offense. Coming out of high school, Brown was a four-star recruit and the No. 8 TE in his class. He will have four years of eligibility remaining after redshirting in 2022.

Alabama has plenty of depth at the tight end position heading into 2023. Incoming top-100 recruit, Amari Niblack, is expected to see playing time from early on and Alabama also decided to add former Maryland TE, C.J. Dippre via the transfer portal.

Roll Tide Wire will continue to monitor Elijah Brown’s collegiate career.

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Alabama sophomore TE Elijah Brown enters NCAA transfer portal

Alabama redshirt-freshman tight end Elijah Brown entered the transfer portal on Monday afternoon. Brown is a former four-star recruit.

Alabama tight end Elijah Brown has entered his name into the transfer portal, according to 247Sports’ Chris Hummer.

Brown joined Alabama as a part of the 2022 recruiting class. He was recruited as a four-star tight end of Dayton, Ohio.

Brown spent one season in Tuscaloosa and was given a redshirt. Meaning, he will have four years of eligibility remaining.

His loss does not sting too much given Alabama’s depth at the tight end position. The Tide still have six tight ends that are on scholarship for next season. That consists of CJ Dippre, Amari Niblack, Danny Lewis, Miles Kitselman, Robbie Ouzts, and Ty Lockwood.

Roll Tide Wire will continue to follow the Alabama football program as well as its involvement in the transfer portal.

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Elite quarterback hopes to visit LSU in the spring

LSU already has a QB commitment in Colin Hurley, but it has remained in contact with Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei quarterback Elijah Brown.

LSU already has a blue-chip quarterback committed in the 2024 cycle in Jacksonville (Fla.) Trinity Christian prospect [autotag]Colin Hurley[/autotag].

Still, that doesn’t mean the program can’t do its due diligence with other prospects at the position, and one player who the staff has remained in contact with is four-star Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei signal-caller [autotag]Elijah Brown[/autotag].

A four-star prospect who ranks as the No. 45 player nationally per On3 and No. 54 per the 247Sports Composite, Brown plans to trim down his list of schools after a busy spring visit schedule. According to On3’s Chad Simmons, LSU is one of the programs he wants to visit.

Brown said that Arizona State, UCLA, Oregon and USC are the schools communicating with him most in addition to the Tigers. He has no Crystal Ball projections, but the Ducks are the favorite to land him, per On3.

LSU isn’t the only program Brown is looking at with a quarterback commitment in 2024, and he said he isn’t shying away from potential competition. The Tigers will hope to host him this spring and see if they can pull him away from the west coast teams.

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Which 2024 quarterbacks should be on Ohio State’s board after Dylan Raiola decommitment?

Back to square one with Buckeye quarterback recruiting #GoBucks

This wasn’t the news that Buckeye fans wanted to see. Five-star quarterback [autotag]Dylan Raiola[/autotag], the No. 1 player in the 2024 class,  decommitted from the program on Saturday. The smoke began Friday when the Arizona star scrubbed his social media of all things Ohio State.

This hurts on multiple levels, but the silver lining is the 2024 class is more than a year away from its early signing period, so [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag] has plenty of time to find a replacement for Raiola. Yes, the Buckeyes will not be able to upgrade, but there are plenty of big-time quarterbacks that will consider the Buckeyes.

Since they held the commitment from Raiola, there weren’t many other offers out to quarterback in the class. Two of the four have already committed elsewhere. The third, [autotag]Jadyn Davis[/autotag], is trending to our rival, Michigan. Most likely Raiola will not return to the class, so it’s back to square one. Here are a few targets the Buckeyes should focus their efforts on.

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Alabama Morning Drive: News and notes from day 1 of fall camp

The top news and notes from day one of fall camp 2022.

Good morning, Tide fans! We have finally made it to Friday! I hope everyone has had a great week as we begin to dive into the weekend.

On Thursday, [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag] and the Alabama football team hit the practice field to begin their work on the 2022 college football season.

Yesterday we reported the unfortunate news that star Tide tight end [autotag]Cameron Latu[/autotag] would be missing some time during fall camp with an undisclosed injury. Now, it will be up to the likes of Robbie Ouzts, Amari Niblack, Elijah Brown, Danny Lewis, and Miles Kitselman to pick up the slack in Latu’s absence.

Like coach Saban mentioned in his press conference Thursday, the young guys in the tight end room now have a great opportunity ahead of them to maybe develop a role for themself on this team.

Let’s take a look at a few other notes from Thursday’s practice.

Alabama Morning Drive: Fall camp set to begin this week

August is here and that means football is back!

Good Monday morning, Tide fans! Welcome back to another edition of Alabama Morning Drive!

We have finally made it to August, and you know what that means, football season is just around the corner. In fact, [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag] and the Alabama Crimson Tide are set to start fall camp sometime this week.

While an official date has not been set, going by past experiences, this is generally the week that Alabama will hit the practice field in preparation for the season.

The most educated guess that I can give is that Alabama will likely start on either Thursday or Friday of this week. The first scrimmage will likely be on August 13.

Regardless of when the Tide gets things rolling, fall camp is just a couple of steps away, and that means the football is back.