Fact or Fiction: Malachi Nelson can turn his career around at Boise State

Rivals rankings director and national transfer portal analyst Adam Friedman is joined by national recruiting director Adam Gorney, Ryan Young of TrojanSports.com and Jacey Zembal of TheWolfpackCentral.com to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION.

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1. More than 18 programs will sign a five-star in the 2025 recruiting cycle.

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Friedman: FICTION. There have been 18 programs in each of the last two rankings cycles to sign a five-star prospect but it’s unlikely that trend continues. There are currently 18 five-stars in the Rivals250 and a total of four programs hold commitments from the nine that have already issued their verbal pledge.

The total number of five-stars will roughly double before the end of the rankings cycle. Check out the list of recruiting powerhouses that don’t have a five-star commitment yet who have landed at least one in the last two recruiting cycles: Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, Miami, Auburn, Clemson, Ole Miss, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Notre Dame. If each of these five-star-less programs sign just one and the ones who have already verbally committed stay put, the 2025 recruiting cycle will still only feature 16 different teams with a five-star signee.

Gorney: FICTION. There is still a long way to go for a lot of the five-stars and…

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Publish date : 2024-06-10 13:56:44

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