High school recruiting has changed dramatically, even since I started covering college football and the process of luring top athletes to campus several years ago.
The days of the same handful of blue blood programs stocking up on the country’s top talent are over. Just look at some of the top quarterbacks in the 2026 cycle: Five-star Jared Curtis signed with Vanderbilt, flipping from Georgia. Five-star Keisean Henderson signed with Houston.
And yet, the ever-morphing process of recruiting high school athletes remains the lifeblood of the sport.