The day before the start of college football’s early signing window, the period in which the nation’s highly rated high school recruits can sign their national letters of intent to play at their colleges of choice, Jackson State Coach Deion Sanders tipped his hand.
“Signing day is tomorrow,” Sanders said. “I’m going on record to tell you guys, we’re going to shock the country.”
Less than 24 hours later, Jackson State lured Travis Hunter, ranked as the class of 2022’s No. 1 recruit by 247Sports.com, pulling him away from Florida State, Sanders’s alma mater, in one of the most significant signings in the modern college football recruiting era.