With Mitchell in, that’s everyone that was expected. Now a few quick things:

-Mitchell had his NIL signed around 10am this morning. There was a hurdle that came up, but mainly because of questions by the family on some of the paperwork. One of Mitchell’s coaches explained everything and then the NLI was sent in. That’s the hold up, but there were some moments of worry with that today.

-Wilson is such an interesting deal that it’s probably good that Utah moved on from him. I’m told that they kept it quiet from everyone about dropping in hopes they could have him as a preferred walkon. There was a lot going on here though, and instead he resurface at Arizona.

-Carvalho will be retweeting the same stuff that the program is tweeting (if he hasn’t already). He’s initially going to be a PWO who could get a scholarship once he’s back off of his mission.

The defensive lineman from the Kahuku trio makes it official:

Utah lands another strong running back from the state of Florida:

Clint Cosgrove is joined by Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham to break down the Utes' 2023 recruiting class👇

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Four are already on the board with Howard, Clegg, Zipperer and Alderman. Here are some of the known commitment times:

Jonathan Hall: looks like he already signed, just waiting on official word

Caleb Lomu: 9 am mst

Brock Fonoimoana, Kainoa Carvalho and Stanley Raass: 12 pm mst

Mateaki Helu: 12 pm mst

Dijon Stanley: 12:30 pm mst

Mikey Matthews: 2 pm mst

People are facebook are panicking about his recent tweet. Is there something going on behind the scenes?

Spencer Fano is in:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-spencer-fano-ol

Utah adds to the DL with their latest signee:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-jonah-leaea-de

The LA Times high school ball player of the year is the latest signee:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-dijon-stanley-rb

So these things can be interesting. Usually kids announce when they’ve been dropped and they spin it to a family decision, so this one fell through the cracks of everyone. Wilson was dropped by Utah two months ago. Then he never put anything out publicly. Arizona can advertise this as a flip, but Wilson never even tripped Utah (something I did think was interesting and odd).

WOW. The lack of patience and development on some QB's is crazy. He could be a legit number 2 if he stayed here. So interesting to see players like him, Tuttle, Slovis, JT Daniels, even Jake Heaps and MANY more. I get they wanna play, but on rare occasion you play as a freshman and don't need development. Many times PT merits a transfer if they want to play. I find this all fascinating from a Social Science perspective. Coaching movement doesn't help the situation also. So many parts to this with no guardrails also. They should get one transfer then lose a year of eligibility IMO.

The Kahuku boys are beginning to roll in:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-brock-fonoimoana-s

A surprise? Or expected?

Another 4-star joins the party:

Colton Swan's room gets an athletic 'backer out of California:

Is Jacobsen next in line to be another great Utah tight end?:

Utes get another linebacker in Hall:

The linebacker room gets a Hometown Hero in Helu from Tooele. He'll be a mission kid:

It’s almost time for Christmas before Christmas. I still kind of miss the February craziness. Still though, Utah is expecting one helluva class tomorrow.

What’s remaining?

Utah had their recent hot streak of adding multiple four-star talents and seeing already committed guys get bumped to four-stars. They’re now up to seven, with the likelihood of more tomorrow.

Guys I’ve recently mentioned—
-TE, Walker Lyons, will absolutely be a guy to follow for February.

-WR, JeyQuan Smith, also won’t sign anywhere until February.

(With both of those guys, I really like where Utah is sitting with them)

-DT, Tavake Tuikolovatu, committed to UCLA a few days ago.

So prediction time on the two guys Utah is waiting on…

Luke Talich, S:
I’m predicting he goes elsewhere. Utah got in the game a little too late for him, in my opinion.

John Randle Jr., RB:
He’s been silent throughout the process, but I’ve heard enough from multiple angles that I expect him to be a Ute.



Recruits making it for spring ball—
Mack Howard
Mikey Matthews
Spencer Fano
Solatoa Moeai
Johnathan Hall
Owen Chambliss
Nate Ritchie

Maybe (as a grad transfer)
Logan Fano

Returned missionaries—
Sione Fotu
Nate Ritchie
Solatoa Moeai

Outgoing missionaries—
Mateaki Helu
Hunter Clegg
Brock Fonoimoana
Kainoa Carvalho

Put another 4-star on the board. What a class for the Utes!

https://utah.rivals.com/news/breaking-4-star-rb-randle-jr-chooses-utah

Let’s go! This is the Utes 5th four-star signee, with three more to come today:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-cj-blocker-db

As I’ve mentioned, Randle Jr. has been completely silent, but I have enough intel from those around him that I made a futurecast prediction back on the 13th:

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Rivals250 OL Caleb Lomu is in:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-caleb-lomu-ol

The lockdown corner is in!

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-smith-snowden-db

Alderman is on the board. Don’t let the rating fool you, Harding pretty much got his top three OL targets:

https://utah.rivals.com/news/signed-nli-roger-alderman-ol