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Commitments, videos and Sylvester Stallone: How social media is changing the college football recruiting game

Connor Wedington was nearing the end of a wild snowboard run at Snoqualmie when he took off on a jump, and visible on the bottom of the board was “Stanford Cardinal.”

That Bleacher Report-produced video, watched 420,000 times, was how the Sumner High School running back announced his commitment to Stanford in 2017.

A year earlier, Deontay Anderson from Texas made national news when he announced his commitment to Ole Miss while skydiving.

But neither had a message from Sylvester Stallone like Eastside Catholic star Gee Scott Jr. had in his video when the receiver announced on Christmas he was committing to Ohio State.