{"id":313703,"date":"2023-07-04T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=313703"},"modified":"2023-07-04T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:57:37","slug":"recruitment-for-5-star-edge-colin-simmons-appears-to-be-a-two-team-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=313703","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment for 5-star edge Colin Simmons appears to be a 'two-team race'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio State stunned the recruiting world on Sunday night when they got a commitment from St. Ignatius (Ill.)\u00a0<\/span>standout Justin Scott<\/span><\/a>, one of several five-star defensive line recruits in the class of 2024. The best of them has yet to decide on his college, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

That would be Duncanville (Texas) five-star edge Colin Simmons, who is ranked No. 1 at his position by Rivals and ESPN and in the top five at 247Sports and On3.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simmons appears to be narrowing his choices down to two schools.\u00a0<\/span>Adam Gorney at Rivals<\/span><\/a>\u00a0says it’s a two-team race between Texas and LSU to get his commitment.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There have been significant rumors especially in the last few weeks that Texas has emerged as the front-runner in this recruitment after months of Simmons liking LSU a whole lot. Throughout his recruitment, the five-star defensive end from Duncanville, Texas has been complimentary of many teams but as it gets closer this one feels like a two-team race with the Longhorns pulling ahead.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Gorney is projecting that Simmons will eventually settle on Texas. That’s also what\u00a0<\/span>On3’s prediction model<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has, with the Longhorns the favorites at 58.5% and LSU at 21.1%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas finished at No. 3 in the nation in the 2023 recruiting cycle, but right now, they’re lagging at\u00a0<\/span>No. 32 nationally<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the class of 2024. Meanwhile, LSU is in the top 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Simmons appears to be narrowing his choices down to two schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313704,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313703\/revisions\/313704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}