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Former Texas A&M, Kentucky WR Raymond Cottrell has found his new home

Former Texas A&M, Kentucky WR Raymond Cottrell is headed back the Florida for the 2024 season

Looking back at Texas A&M’s 2023 recruiting class, one of former head coach Jimbo Fisher’s prized Florida-based commitments left the program after his final season with the program, as former 4-star WR Raymond Cottrell will not head back to the Sunshine State for the 2024 season.

For college football fans who pay close attention to recruiting rankings, even the highest-rated prospects don’t end up where we all expect them to because, at the end of the day, these are just kids looking for the best place to showcase their skills and play the game they love at a high level.

In just one season with the Aggies, Cottrell appeared in just one game and recorded the only reception of his Texas A&M career, which resulted in a 13-yard touchdown, after initially transferring to Kentucky early in the offseason, which looked like a perfect fit on paper.

However, after entering the transfer portal again, On3’s Pete Nakos has reported that Cottrell will join Division II West Florida for the 2023 season and should receive ample playing time as soon as he steps on campus.

Good luck, Raymond!

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Former Penn State Class of 2023 QB target commits to Division 2 school

Where did this former Penn State and Florida four-star QB end up signing in the Class of 2023?

As the traditional signing period approached, it was worth monitoring where two recruits who had previously recommitted from Penn State ended up. One player who previously committed to Penn State, quarterback [autotag]Marcus Stokes[/autotag], did wind up staying relatively closer to his home in Florida, although his landing spot was a bit more off the radar than originally planned.

Stokes committed to West Florida on national signing day on Wednesday. His journey from committing to Penn State to the Division 2 program has been quite a wild one, to say the least.

Stokes originally committed to Penn State in 2022 but wen ton to flip his commitment to Florida. But Florida pulled his scholarship offer after a viral video in which Stokes used a racial slur made the rounds. Since then, the options for Stokes became far lower in profile with a couple of FCS programs, including Albany State, surfacing as the best potential spots. But even Albany State, an HBCU, rescinded its scholarship offer at the order of the university president.

Enter West Florida, a quickly growing Division 2 program that won a national championship in just its fourth year of existence in 2019. Stokes should easily be able to use his time at West Florida to show what he can do, and as time passes he could make himself an interesting transfer portal option in the future. After all, a four-star recruit starting out at a Division 2 school does not happen every year.

Stokes obviously has an image problem that could not be cleaned up in time during this recruiting cycle, and it remains to be seen if that viral video has tarnished his college career for good or not. But here’s hoping playing at West Florida allows his Stokes to find a way to redeem himself moving forward, including off the field.

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