If you have been following the recruiting news, you may have noticed a deep slowdown in the amount of commitments coming out. We talk about why that is and what it means for the Cats down below.
Welcome to the quietest recruiting cycle in recent memory.
It’s mid-July, and not a single player ranked in the top 10 of the 2026 class has committed to a school. That’s not a typo. Zero. Zilch. And among the top 35, only three have made decisions—all of them staying close to home: JJ Andrews to Arkansas, Elijah Williams to Baylor, and Marcus Johnson to Ohio State.