Not trying to be negative but anyone know why the schools we were competing with for him weren’t top teams ? Seems odd for such a high ranked prospect.
Many schools are trying to flip the kid committed to Illinois right now; including ND and Michigan.
USC appears to be bypassing taking a quarterback this class; ND possibly as well given that they've only offered 4 quarterbacks. Last December, their (ND) 2027 quarterback commit reclassified to 2026 so they just took two quarterbacks. USC is possibly reevaluating how they form a sustainable quarterback room after Longstreet transferred out.
UGA has got burned quite a bit recently too . Fields and Beck transferred out whilst Raiola & Curtis both flipped. They took two lower profile quarterbacks in 2026, most recently getting an early enrollee 2026 Oregon signee to transfer portal out before spring practice (guessing because Oregon took Raiola’s little brother in addition to Raiola). UGA additionally has the top 2028 QB committed already; maybe they try to get him to reclassify.
Alabama has a quarterback committed already and are trying to add another in five star Elijah Haven. Ohio State has had their 2027 quarterback committed since before Chip Kelly left to go to the Raiders. Indiana has had their 2027 QB commit for a long while now. So has Clemson, who also was semi-recently burned when Ty Simpson flipped from Clemson to Alabama. SMU and Nebraska have a QB commit already.
Texas Tech has their quarterback commit for 6 months now. UF is all in on Davin Davidson. A&M has had their QB committed since 8/03/25. OU’s qb committed a month ago however was seen as a silent for a little while now. Texas got a quarterback committed a couple months ago, and like ND, has only offered 4 the whole cycle (the other 3 being the qbs committed to LSU, OSU, and TT).
My total speculation about why Oregon never offered him was because he was an Adidas player; and they probably feel strongly in securing Will Mencl. Tennessee, Houston and Vanderbilt are all about to start true freshmen quarterbacks; so they aren’t going to allocate time/resources to a blue-chip QB imo.
Ole Miss and LSU went through a weird musical chairs situation; it appears both quarterbacks are staying committed to their respective schools even though the offensive staffs at both schools have been overhauled.
If you were to look at Jake Nawrot’s choices, he additionally is a top ten ranked quarterback without some of the most premier programs pursuing him. Even son of NFL OC and brother to LSU QB Colton Nussmier isn’t getting pursued that heavily.
The only mystery to me is why Penn State didn’t pursue him; as Izzy stated himself the staff at Iowa State gave him his first offer well before the others.
