{"id":407012,"date":"2024-06-27T19:51:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=407012"},"modified":"2024-06-27T20:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:04:26","slug":"5-star-faizon-brandon-has-three-sec-schools-in-his-final-four-will-commit-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=407012","title":{"rendered":"5-star Faizon Brandon has three SEC schools in his final four, will commit in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faizon Brandon is set to commit, this following several unofficial visits this month. A cutdown of his list, with an August commitment in mind, has now accelerated Brandon&#8217;s recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>A five-star quarterback in the class of 2026, Brandon is down to a final four of <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/\">Alabama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lsutigerswire.usatoday.com\/\">LSU<\/a>, North Carolina State and <a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/\">Tennessee<\/a>. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/faizon-brandon-46137277\/\">247Sports<\/a>, Brandon is the top-ranked recruit in his class.<\/p>\n<p>He is a 6-foot-3, 195-pound quarterback prospect from Grimsley (Greensboro, North Carolina).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/greensboro\/grimsley-whirlies\/athletes\/faizon-brandon\/football\/stats\/?careerid=inq14ftua3uee\">Last year<\/a>, he was 191-for-277 for 3,026 passing yards. He had 36 passing touchdowns and four interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon told On3 that he made his Thursday cut down because these four schools were engaged with him the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have shown me that they can develop quarterbacks and that has been a thing that has caught my eye about all four of these schools,&#8221; Brandon told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/2026-5-star-qb-faizon-brandon-announces-commitment-date-and-top-four-schools\/ar-BB1p0YRf?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=633bd9bb159e4650972e8e87a566308e&amp;ei=11\">Chad Simmons of On3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the quarterbacks they\u2019ve sent to the league are impressive. That\u2019s definitely something I\u2019m looking for in a school and these schools have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, the North Carolina quarterback took an unofficial visit to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>He has been offered by programs such as Duke, <a href=\"https:\/\/fsuwire.usatoday.com\/\">Florida State<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ugawire.usatoday.com\/\">Georgia<\/a>, Miami, <a href=\"https:\/\/duckswire.usatoday.com\/\">Ohio State<\/a> and South Carolina among others.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to playing quarterback, Brandon also plays as a forward for Grimsley&#8217;s varsity basketball team.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related shortcode shortcode--related\">\n<h2 class=\"related__header\">Related<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/final-2024-usa-today-sports-nfca-high-school-super-25-softball-rankings\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">Final 2024 USA TODAY Sports\/NFCA High School Super 25 softball rankings<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/gatorade-national-girls-track-field-player-year-sadie-engelhardt-2024\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">NC State commit Sadie Engelhardt named Gatorade National Girls Track &#038; Field Player of the Year<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/baby-gronk-pays-visit-to-football-powerhouse-bishop-gorman\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">&#039;Baby Gronk&#039; pays visit to football powerhouse Bishop Gorman<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><\/aside>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Faizon Brandon announces his top four.<\/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\/407012"}],"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=407012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407013,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407012\/revisions\/407013"}],"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=407012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}