{"id":317857,"date":"2023-07-21T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=317857"},"modified":"2023-07-21T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:57:45","slug":"alabama-favorite-to-flip-5-star-olb-demarcus-riddick-from-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=317857","title":{"rendered":"Alabama favorite to flip 5-star OLB Demarcus Riddick from Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Chilton County (Ala.) five-star edge Demarcus Riddick committed to Georgia. However, there&#8217;s a lot of speculation that he will be flipping his commitment next week (July 26) when he makes his final college decision.<\/p>\n<p>Two programs are working hard to flip Riddick, with Alabama considered a slight favorite to get the job done over Auburn,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/n.rivals.com\/news\/three-point-stance-demarcus-riddick-stocks-up-florida-battles\">per John Garcia Jr. at Rivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Crimson Tide remain the favorite, but in the last week or so Auburn&#8217;s continued push for him seems to have been well received, as Rivals began hearing there is growing confidence from\u00a0Hugh Freeze&#8217;s staff when it comes to July 26. We&#8217;ll stick with\u00a0Nick Saban and company about a week out, but Auburn is making this flip attempt that much more interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Going by the 247Sports composite rankings, Riddick ranks No. 3 in the state, No. 3 at his position <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2024-Football\/CompositeRecruitRankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool\">and No. 26 nationally<\/a> in the class of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Despite technically having his commitment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/demarcus-riddick-147675\/recruiting\/157216\/rpm\/\">On3&#8217;s prediction model<\/a> has the Bulldogs at just 27.2%, which is lower than Alabama (39.2%) and Auburn (31.7%).<\/p>\n<p>For now, Georgia remains the top-ranked recruiting program <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2024-Football\/CompositeTeamRankings\/\">in the 2024 cycle<\/a> by a wide margin. After a slow start, Alabama has risen fast of late and is now No. 5 nationally. Meanwhile, Auburn is lagging behind at No. 38.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More football stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/top-high-school-football-programs-that-are-closest-to-reaching-900-wins\">High school football programs closest to reaching 900 wins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/2024-national-recruiting-rankings-updated-top-25-teams?itm_source=parsely-api\">2024 National Recruiting Rankings: Updated top 25 teams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Two programs are working hard to flip Riddick, with Alabama considered a slight favorite to get the job done over Auburn.<\/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\/317857"}],"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=317857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317858,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317857\/revisions\/317858"}],"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=317857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}