Recruiting Rumor Mill: Top 2026 prospects begin to narrow their focus

What’s better than a Christmas Day Recruiting Rumor Mill? Here’s the latest from Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney.

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The Naperville (Ind.) Naperville North quarterback has been committed to Ball State since June but Bell recently took an official visit to Indiana and now has an offer from the Hoosiers. Hours later, Bell backed off his Ball State pledge.

Nothing has been decided yet but the word is that Bell could find it “extremely hard to pass up” the Indiana offer.

Georgia remains the front-runner in Bowman’s recruitment as he loves what the Bulldogs did with Brock Bowers and many other tight ends and Texas is also very high on his list as well. Oregon, USC and Miami are three others to watch for the Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei standout who is considering reclassification to the 2026 class.

Over the holidays while on vacation, Bowman is hoping to take a quick visit to Miami’s campus to show his parents.

A lot of top programs are making a serious rush at the 2026 four-star tight end from Visalia (Calif.) Mount Whitney and Briggs is still all over the place with his recruitment but a weekend visit to UCLA definitely helped the Bruins.

Briggs met with a bunch of coaches and loves new offensive coordinator Tino Sunseri. Miami, the Arizona programs, Oregon and others remain in the hunt.

LSU remains the front-runner for the four-star defensive back from Houston (Texas) North Shore who could play cornerback or safety in college but two new offers have spurned interest in official visits and that…


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Publish date : 2024-12-25 15:22:00

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