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4-star safety Kingston Lopa spurns the Dawgs and commits to Oregon

Oregon’s gain is Washington’s loss as four-star safety Kingston Lopa commits to the Ducks via Twitter this Sunday morning.

Dan Lanning and his Oregon Ducks program just keep adding talent.

Oregon’s Class of 2024 just got stronger this Sunday morning with the verbal commitment of safety Kingston Lopa out of Sacramento, Calif. With this addition, the Ducks are very close to having a Top 5 class in the nation and it’s only going to become stronger.

Lopa is a four-star recruit and is listed as an athlete. At 6-foot-4 and 195 pounds, he’ll project to be a free safety.

Many schools, naturally, wanted the services of Lopa with Washington being Oregon’s strongest competitor. According to Sports Illustrated, Lopa was scheduled for an official visit to Seattle in just a few days, but with this announcement via Twitter, it’s difficult to see that occurring now.

Lopa is the Ducks’ 17th commit for this class and the 11th four-star recuit.

 

Notre Dame football target has reopened his recruitment

The huge safety is back on the market

When [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] offered California 2024 safety [autotag]Kingston Lopa[/autotag] in February, he was already verbally committed to Arizona.

Fast forward a few months and Lopa has decided to decommit from the Wildcats and explore his options going forward. With multiple offers coming in after his verbal, it seems like the massive safety’s recruitment took off.

Lopa might not end up as a safety however, his 6-foot, 5-inch and 190 pound frame could see him gain 20-40 pounds and ultimately end up as an outside linebacker. Having ball skills like a back end defender will only help that move as you don’t normally see safeties his height.

It remains to be seen if Notre Dame will put the pressure on Lopa but he is now back in play for the Irish.

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Notre Dame football sends out two offers on national signing day

The Irish already finished the ‘23 class so why not continue with the ‘24 cycle

Not to take the wind out of national signing day, but for [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] football, it didn’t mean anything. Every single one of their 2023 recruiting class signees put pen to paper during the December early period, so there was no drama today.

In fact, half of the 24 player class has already enrolled in classes and will have an opportunity in the spring to show the staff what they can do. Since there wasn’t really anyone the Irish staff had to try and recruit, they turned their focus on future classes.

Two more offers went out today as head coach [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] looks to build on a great start to the 2024 class and beyond. Find out below which two players were offered and a quick breakdown of their current status.

Football Recruiting: 4 schools get commitments from three-star prospects

Monday was another busy day in the recruiting game.

Lately a handful of characters like Deion Sanders, Cormani McClain and most of all Jaden Rashada have been taking up all the oxygen in the recruiting world. A lot of stories can wind up flying under the radar and Monday was another busy day in the recruiting game.

Here are four Power 5 schools around the country that got commitments from three-star prospects yesterday.

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