{"id":318585,"date":"2023-07-24T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=318585"},"modified":"2023-07-24T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:58:49","slug":"top-ranked-rb-taylor-tatum-gives-huge-boost-to-oklahomas-2024-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=318585","title":{"rendered":"Top-ranked RB Taylor Tatum gives huge boost to Oklahoma&#039;s 2024 class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top five teams in the 2024 national recruiting rankings is the same this week as it was the last. Georgia still has a comfortable lead on top, followed by a big gap, then Ohio State, Florida, Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/red-hot-alabama-nabs-another-4-star-recruit-rises-to-no-5-nationally\">and late-rising Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few schools did make significant progress this past week, though. Clemson climbed a few spots, as did Penn State. However, the biggest winner by far was Oklahoma, leaping from outside <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/2024-national-recruiting-rankings-updated-top-25-teams\">the top 25 teams in the country<\/a> all the way up to No. 16 in the updated 2024 national recruiting rankings.<\/p>\n<p>They got it done by picking up one of the best skill players in the nation. On Friday afternoon, Lonview (Texas) five-star running back Taylor Tatum <a href=\"https:\/\/soonerswire.usatoday.com\/lists\/oklahoma-sooners-football-taylor-tatum-usc-trojans-twitter-reacts-2024-recruting-lincoln-riley\/\">announced his commitment<\/a> to the Sooners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>JUST IN<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#1 RB in the 2024 class, 5<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2b50.png\" alt=\"\u2b50\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Taylor Tatum commits to OKLAHOMA<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2757.png\" alt=\"\u2757\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylortatum06?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@taylortatum06<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f8s7WbsME5\">pic.twitter.com\/f8s7WbsME5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juwan Davis (@MrJDavis96) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJDavis96\/status\/1682427994449616896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the 247Sports composite rankings, Tatum (5-foot-10, 205 pounds) is ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2024-Football\/CompositeRecruitRankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&amp;Position=RB\">first among running backs<\/a>, No. 9 overall in the state of Texas and No. 31 nationally in the class of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight other <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/recruitment\/taylor-tatum-142330\/recruitinterests\/\">schools extended offers<\/a> to Tatum, including Alabama, Auburn, Colorado, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Ohio State, Stanford, Washington and Wisconsin. USC was considered the other top contender to get his commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/oklahoma\/Season\/2024-Football\/Commits\/\">class of 2024<\/a> now has 15 hard commits. Tatum is the Sooners&#8217; first five-star recruit and the highest-ranked overall prospect in the group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More football stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/alabama-favorite-to-flip-5-star-olb-demarcus-riddick-from-georgia\">Alabama favorite to flip 5-star Demarcus Riddick from Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/mike-matthews-announces-commitment-tennessee-video\">Watch: 5-star WR Mike Matthews&#8217; commitment to Tenneessee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>They got it done by picking up one of the best skill players in the nation.<\/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\/318585"}],"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=318585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318587,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318585\/revisions\/318587"}],"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=318585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}