This fall, Syracuse football (and basketball) fans have had to repeatedly listen to national analysts talk over and over and over again about how 2026 five-star wide receiver Calvin Russell lll was a flip target ahead of the early signing period, which runs from December 3 to December 5.
The 6-foot-5 Russell, a top-25 national prospect in the senior class per 247Sports, has shut down any of that flip-talk nonsense. On Friday, among some publicly available quotes on X, Russell said of his recruitment to Rivals analyst Marcus Benjamin, "It’s done."
Russell, the Orange's highest-rated football commit in more than two decades, added: "We have a bond that is unbreakable.