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Class of 2027 tight end Connor Winn gets a Rutgers football offer

Connor Winn is offered by Rutgers football over the weekend.

Connor Winn, a class of 2027 tight end from Florida, was offered by Rutgers football over the weekend.

Despite being in middle school, Winn is already 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds. He also plays defensive end. In addition, Winn plays basketball.

Winn, from Jacksonville, FL, posted on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter), about his offer from the Big Ten program. In announcing the offer, Winn tagged Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano and tight ends coach Andrew Aurich.

After playing at Princeton as a tight end, Aurich spent time in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and then back at Princeton (as offensive line coach then offensive coordinator) before joining Schiano’s staff. Last year, he was the team’s running backs coach.

Winn is already looking to be in the mold of a Big Ten tight end, with a strong frame and a good radius. He does well in securing contested catches.

 

Rutgers has hosted a number of underclassmen over the weekend, sending out offers to [autotag]Liam Thorpe[/autotag], [autotag]Semaj Beals[/autotag] and [autotag]Derek Zammit[/autotag] among others.

 

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Rutgers football recruiting: Liam Thorpe breaks down his first Power Five offer

Liam Thorpe talks Rutgers football offer this week.

Liam Thorpe was offered by Rutgers football on Thursday night, giving the class of 2025 recruit his first offer from a Power Five program.

Thorpe, a wide receiver at The Hun School (Princeton, N.J.), checks in at 6-foot and 175-pounds. He also holds offers from Hawaii, UPenn and Princeton.

In 2022 as a sophomore, he had 19 catches for 592 receiving yards and six touchdowns. According to 247Sports, he is a three-star athlete and is ranked the No. 14 player in New Jersey.

The offer from Rutgers came on Thursday following a day on-campus. Thorpe details how the offer came about from head coach [autotag]Greg Schiano[/autotag] and the message from the staff during his unofficial visit.

“I visited the facility today and had a great conversation with the receivers coach talked a lot about player development and really liked what he had to say about the program trending upwards,” Thorpe told Rutgers Wire on Thursday night.

“Then I went into coach Schiano’s office and had a great conversation with him about the program and that’s when he gave me the offer.”

Following the offer, Thorpe came away with a favorable impression of the Big Ten program. Playing for a powerhouse program like The Hun, he has teammates and friends who are now a part of the Rutgers football team.

Hun products on the Rutgers football roster include offensive lineman [autotag]Jacob Allen[/autotag] and tight end [autotag]Logan Blake[/autotag].

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“I have some good friends who play there and have great things to say about it,” Thorpe said. “And after getting to see it today I feel great about Rutgers and will definitely continue to build the relationship with the coaching staff.”

Thorpe is hopeful to make a game visit to Rutgers this fall.

He hopes to continue his relationship with Rutgers and wide receivers coach Dave Brock.

Having joined the program this offseason, Brock was most recently the wide receivers coach with the Atlanta Falcons.

“Definitely, having someone with experience at the next level is a huge factor in my decision as that’s the end goal,” Thorpe said. “And he’s definitely someone that could help take me there.”

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Liam Thorpe pulls down his first Power Five offer from Rutgers football

Liam Thorpe is offered by Rutgers football.

Class of 2025 wide receiver Liam Thorpe was offered by Rutgers football on Thursday night.

A 6-foot, 175-pound wide receiver from The Hun School (Princeton, N.J.), Thorpe has also been offered by Hawaii, UPenn and Princeton. Last season as a sophomore he had 19 catches for 592 receiving yards and six touchdowns.

According to 247Sports, he is a three-star athlete and is ranked the No. 14 player in New Jersey.

This weekend is a big recruiting weekend for Rutgers football with an event on Friday where a number of top prospects from the 2025 and 2026 recruiting classes set to take unofficial visits to the Big Ten program. The majority of athletes set to attend the event are from the tristate area.

After spending time on the Rutgers campus, Thorpe tweeted about the offer on Thursday:

 

Recruiting is clearly on an uptick for Rutgers in the 2024 recruiting class. Over the past month, the program has received commitments from three recruits ranked as a four-star at their respective positions.

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