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Topic: 2026 Recruiting Thread

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Mdot21

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2026 Recruiting Thread
« on: July 04, 2025, 05:13:34 PM »
didn't see one on here so just thought I'd start one.

In what can only be labeled as a stunning late development, the #7 player overall in the nation and #2 OT according to the 247Composite- 5* OT Felix Ojo (6'6, 275) from Mansfield, Texas commits to Texas Tech over the perceived heavy favorite Texas Longhorns at the last minute.

It's being reported that he got an insane deal to go to Texas Tech, this is apparently the first fully-guaranteed rev share deal of it's kind so far. Ojo received a $5.1 million fully-guaranteed 3-year contract. This isn't straight NIL with incentives and possibility of earning millions like the alleged $10 million+ NIL deal last years #1 player overall Bryce Underwood got. This is a straight up rev share deal and fully guaranteed $5.1 million 3-year contract.

Call me crazy but Texas Tech is nuts to spend that on a HS OL.


https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1941206665258500465
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2025, 05:21:19 PM »
And yet USC already won this recruiting cycle


https://twitter.com/Rivals/status/1941181689209946392
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2025, 05:32:11 PM »
USC has the #1 class but they have thirty one commits and the only other team close to that in the top 10 is Georgia with 27. And I'd take Georgia's class over USC's full-stop in a second. And Georgia probably isn't done either. 

I really don't get kids signing up to play for Lincoln Riley. Have they not seen the last 3 years at USC? 
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2025, 05:37:16 PM »
I mean just because his name is Boobie Feaster, they should he #1 if he were their only commit
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2025, 05:37:40 PM »
Detroit Lions 2nd round pick rookie OL Tate Ratledge who was an All-SEC & All-American guard national championship winner signed a 4-year, $7.5 million rookie deal. Texas Tech just fully-guaranteed a 17-18 year old HS kid $5.1 million over 3 years. Doesn't even make sense. Guaranteeing him 2nd round NFL draft pick money and he hasn't done a thing. Laundry list of HS 5* OL busts is long.
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2025, 07:49:57 PM »
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2025, 11:11:56 AM »
Certainly a feast
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2025, 11:49:16 AM »
Yeah I think part of that, is Tech just wanting to be able to say they beat Texas in a recruiting battle.  And indeed they did.  He's a good prospect for sure but there's no way Texas was going to match that kind of offer for an incoming freshman, while still having to maintain its NIL and revshare budget for the entire recruiting class plus retention of everyone already on the roster. 
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2025, 11:12:43 AM »
5* WR Calvin Russell, a supposed heavy UM lean committed to Syracuse.  Assuming we will see something similar about what hes getting
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2025, 11:43:07 AM »
Quote from: ELA on July 06, 2025, 11:12:43 AM
5* WR Calvin Russell, a supposed heavy UM lean committed to Syracuse.  Assuming we will see something similar about what hes getting
he was actually a Syracuse lean until Michigan got heavily involved in the last couple months and supplanted LSU (child hood favorite) and Miami (the local team) as the main competition to Syracuse. 

Syracuse gave him a 3-year, $4.3 million fully guaranteed deal according to his agent. Yeah, they can have him for that. Don’t get me wrong Russell is a heckuva prospect with great height/length and faster than he looks almost like a really thin Mike Evans type big body WR prospect, but he’s no sure thing consensus top 5 overall player in the nation like a JJ Smith or Julio Jones. And I don’t think you break the bank for a HS WR prospect unless he is that- you’re better off throwing that money around in the porthole for a proven guy for 1 or 2 years.

And Michigan has 4* top 100 player overall Zion Robinson and 4* top 200 player overall Travis Johnson committed at WR and 3* WR Jaylen Pile from Texas who they had camp and really liked so they offered. He’d have been an awesome addition to really bolster the WR class but he’s wasn’t an absolute necessity that they had to break the bank for imo. 
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2025, 10:46:22 AM »
can't beat 'em, join em. 

And Jeremiah Smith was the #1 player in the entire nation in the 2024 class in the 247Composite rankings, Calvin Russell is the #47 player in the 2026 class in said rankings. There was a night and day difference in the two as prospects coming out of HS. Anyone from SoFL who has seen either one of them would tell you that as well. Smith was just on a completely different level.


https://twitter.com/MaizeandBo/status/1941996399924502811
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2025, 03:36:36 PM »
'CROOTIN! updated 2026 rankings for On3/Rivals...

Michigan has two commits in the top 8 overall players. 


https://twitter.com/Rivals/status/1967619999935451556
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2025, 04:55:07 PM »
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Re: 2026 Recruiting Thread
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2025, 04:58:06 PM »
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