{"id":415474,"date":"2024-08-04T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=415474"},"modified":"2024-08-04T01:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:06:26","slug":"5-star-edge-jared-smith-commits-to-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=415474","title":{"rendered":"5-star EDGE Jared Smith commits to Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There may not be a hotter team on the recruiting trail right now than Auburn, and that momentum carried into Saturday with the commitment of Alabaster (Ala.) Thompson five-star EDGE Jared Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Smith chose the Tigers over Florida State, Georgia, Ole Miss, South Carolina, and USC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">247Sports is <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">high<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> on Smith ranking him as the No. 19 overall prospect, the No. 2 EDGE and No. 2 player in Alabama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/season\/2025-football\/compositerecruitrankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">247Sports Composite Rankings<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> list McNutt as the country&#8217;s No. 57 overall prospect, the No. 5 EDGE, and the No. 4 player in Alabama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Smith was previously at Spain Park before transferring to Thompson midway through his junior season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RecruitWarriors?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RecruitWarriors<\/a> 2025 4-Star Edge Jared Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdotsmith_8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jdotsmith_8<\/a> looks poised to play a major role for the Warriors on the defensive side of the football.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee are just a few of the programs involved with Smith at the moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NnXxDX3Ssr\">pic.twitter.com\/NnXxDX3Ssr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Touchdown Alabama Recruiting (@TDARecruiting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TDARecruiting\/status\/1789735076428742790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>The Tigers continue to win major recruiting battles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s pledge makes him the second five-star commitment in Auburn&#8217;s 2025 class. In January, Opelika (Ala.) five-star defensive lineman Malik Autry committed to the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Freeze and his staff have been on fire recruiting over the last two months, landing 14 of the team&#8217;s current 22 pledges. Since July, Auburn has landed nine new pledges.<\/p>\n<p>The class ranks No. 5 nationally.<\/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\/lists\/tennessee-vols-qb-room-is-stacked-for-the-future\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">Tennessee Vols&#039; QB room is stacked for the future<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/oregon-ducks-get-commitment-from-4-star-qb-jonas-williams\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">Oregon Ducks get commitment from 4-star QB Jonas Williams<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/5-star-quarterback-faizon-brandon-commits-to-tennessee-volunteers\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">5-star quarterback Faizon Brandon commits to Tennessee Volunteers<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"block block--related\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2024\/5-star-safety-trey-mcnutt-commits-to-oregon-ducks\" data-track=\"usatodayhss-in-article-related-curated\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"block__title\">5-star safety Trey McNutt commits to Oregon Ducks<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Tigers add a major piece to class of 2025 defense.<\/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\/415474"}],"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=415474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415476,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415474\/revisions\/415476"}],"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=415474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}