Class of '26 Verbal Commits and Offers/Discussion

[AkronAlumnus]

8 hours ago, ZippyDoo said:

keshawn hayden is the one that backed out of the zips and chose eastern kentucky...

 

i was looking at this  cam williams. his agent says that he has 10 FBS offers and he will be announcing soon. He lists 6'5 the school site has him at 6'3 both have him at 250... decent stats at atlanta clark. 

 

offers i saw were Troy, akron, memphis, eastern carolina, middle tennessee state, coastal carolina, western kentucky, jax state

 

i dontknow if all those r fbs but those r the offers i saw on his site... so we shall see. he looks like a tackle. looks very thick. 

Cam Williams to Coastal 🙃

[Captain Kangaroo]

1 hour ago, AkronAlumnus said:

Cam Williams to Coastal 🙃

The allure of the beach and the Dick's Last Resort NIL $$ was too much to resist, I guess.

[AkronAlumnus]

 

[Zips1991]

The DB/CB commits are rolling in quick!

[catdaddyp]

7 minutes ago, AkronAlumnus said:

 

Pretty sure he’s being brought in to compete at Nickel. Reminds me of Darrian Lewis.

[catdaddyp]

5 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

The DB/CB commits are rolling in quick!

Now we need some quality DL.

[NeoZip]

1 hour ago, catdaddyp said:

Now we need some quality DL.

Looks like a lot of the OL signings are interior guys. Where do we stand with OT? Jones/Faulkner/Shor/Mann?

[catdaddyp]

48 minutes ago, NeoZip said:

Looks like a lot of the OL signings are interior guys. Where do we stand with OT? Jones/Faulkner/Shor/Mann?

Those four plus Stephens, Gould, and potentially Barthelemy.

[AkronAlumnus]

3 hours ago, catdaddyp said:

Now we need some quality DL.

The staff has offers out to:

 

Josiah Graham - edge // Mammoth

Le'kell Mc'Gowan - edge // Memphis

Lance Byndon - edge // Morgan State

Jahmek Armstrong - edge // JUCO (Independence)

Jasun Ridley - edge/DT // JUCO (Pasadena City)

 

 

There's surely more but that's what I found on X for defensive line 

 

[ZippyDoo]

2 hours ago, AkronAlumnus said:

The staff has offers out to:

 

Josiah Graham - edge // Mammoth

Le'kell Mc'Gowan - edge // Memphis

Lance Byndon - edge // Morgan State

Jahmek Armstrong - edge // JUCO (Independence)

Jasun Ridley - edge/DT // JUCO (Pasadena City)

 

 

There's surely more but that's what I found on X for defensive line 

 

josiah Graham most likely played for leonard at monmouth or they probably have connections there from when leonard coached there but Graham has offers at Troy, James Madison, and Hawaii

 

mcGowan committed to Louisiana Monroe on January 18 according to 247.

 

Byndon and Ridley are similar in size 

 

armstrong is listed at 6'6 and one site has him at 260 and one site has him at 280. If i read correctly it said something about him playing tight end in 23 or 24 so maybe he is athletic also?

[AkronAlumnus]

 

[ZippyDoo]

new tight end, Wyatt Hook, is on campus so both of the new guys are here.  That should pretty much complete the offense.  hopefully they get that chemistry rolling right away...

[AkronAlumnus]

 

[catdaddyp]

On 1/22/2026 at 4:50 PM, AkronAlumnus said:

 

Finally got around to watching his film. I know his social media says offer, and maybe I’m wrong, but seems like another walk-on to me. 

[MangoZip]

Really late offer to a high school senior D lineman 

[ZippyDoo]

He posted this the exact same day???? 100% committed?  The two posts are back to back???

[MangoZip]

Interesting, maybe he committed and then got offered by Akron later in the day? D1 offer could quickly make him 0% committed? Actually it says “offer to play” sounds like a walk on offer to me. 

Edited Friday at 04:46 PM by MangoZip

[ZippyDoo]

yeah you might be right.  I did not catch that about the offer to play part.  

[ZippyDoo]

I'm guessing now that school is started and a couple weeks in that we will not be getting any college age commits until the end of the semester right? nobody would be able to start school this late i don't think?

 

I could see getting some very late high school senior commits but it wouldn't make sense to get to get any commits from anyone right now in the portal that could not attend college or am I way off on this thinking?

 

I remember last year laventure, duncan, and brown came at the beginning of june so i am kind of expecting the same.  

 

Not that it is necessarily a bad thing cause it will give the returning freshman the whole semester to get their feet wet and see what the have before any new blood comes in.