Rivals national recruiting analyst John Garcia Jr. with the rankings looking back at the position group across all regional stops:

UCLA offensive analyst Billy Fessler will be leaving to take a similar position at Ohio State, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Fessler, of course, was originally brought in by former head coach Chip Kelly to be the program’s quarterbacks coach. Once Kelly left for Ohio State, Fessler’s role was changed as DeShaun Foster made his own hires.

Reached out to Charlie Ramirez, the high school coach at Pittsburg HS, plus the importance of the addition and the young future nucleus UCLA is hoping forms in the secondary:

The signal has gone up

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It’s not just the football staff looking into the future.

The basketball staff made an offer yesterday to 2027 small forward Babatunde Oladotun.

…we’re offered $50,000 to go to a really good school to play football, would you stretch out the process or lock in somewhere? That would seem like a ton of money to a kid who probably hasn’t been available to have a job, etc

Just to keep things tidy and in one place in the midst of all the unofficial visits, here's a one-stop shop to keep tabs on the 2025 recruits who have locked in official visits. This will be updated as more become public, are told directly to us or if any dates change.

May 3-5

The first wave of officials after spring camp closes:

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Trajen Odom, defensive end

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May 10-12

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Aaron Dunn, offensive tackle

Darius Afalava, offensive tackle

Karson Cox, running back

Kaleb Edwards, tight end

Chase Coleman, cornerback (committed)

Devin Hyde, edge rusher

May 17-19

Madden Iamaleava, quarterback

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Epi Sitanilei, edge rusher

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Noah Flores, tight end

Landon McComber, outside linebacker

May 31-June 2

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Rylon Dillard-Allen, safety

Dylan Sims, tight end

Chinedu Onyeagoro, defensive end

Jadyn Hudson, safety

LaVar Arrington II, edge rusher

Marcus Harris, wide receiver

Tyler Partlow, defensive tackle

Semi Taulanga, defensive tackle

LeBron Williams, defensive tackle

Made official Thursday:

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As will an interim chancellor, per the agenda posting.

RIP 🙏

UCLA was among several programs in attendance Monday at the mega camp on the Redlands campus.

According to James H. Williams of Southern California News Group, nearly the entire assistant coaching staff and DeShaun Foster were in attendance along with some graduate assistants.

The joint college showcase has wrapped up here at Warren HS Downey, with Inglewood and Narbonne also participating and showcasing its abilities to college coaches.

While 2025 QB Madden Iamaleava and 2026 QB Jaden O’Neal were the headliners, here are two other Warren players UCLA offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy had his eye on:

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I’ll have more later once I get home, including quotes from 2025 Jace Brown directly after a conversation with Bieniemy. Also, Brown is definitely a WR, not sure why he’s listed as a TE unless the profile was made early in his HS career and he just stopped growing or something.

4 p.m. PT on NFL Network from the OT7 7-on-7 event in Tampa, Fla.

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Now, the countdown to noon begins

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Manning:


McComber:

to put this perspective, last year UCLA finished their recruiting class ranked 90th place with a dozen commits.

UCLA has maybe 6-8 potential 4 star players that could sign before the season starts

As you might remember, the Inglewood native and three-star recruit currently at Matthews (N.C.) Weddington took his official to UCLA early in the process.

After taking a few more and with a busy June ahead, he outlines where things stand with the programs atop his list:

Some other familiar names in that group, too.

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Ikenna Alozie was among Rob Cassidy’s superlatives at the Pangos All-American Camp in Las Vegas this week:

Dunn had a lot to say and appears to be taking a pretty cerebral approach to his recruitment. But his top priority was clear: choose the program that will get him to the NFL.