5 star 2022 Safety Xavier Nwankpa commits to Iowa over OSU, ND
Highest rated recruit in the history of the state of Iowa stays home to become the highest rated recruit in the history of the Iowa football program.
Big loss for OSU and ND. Earlier today OSU had a 5 star 2023 safety commit (Sonny Styles) reclassify into the 2022 class, which was necessary as OSU has missed and is expected to miss on all their other safety targets. Styles is the #13 player overall (26 to 247) after reclassifying, but will be 17 years old his entire freshman year. Seems likely that Styles isn't able to contribute much as a freshman, and reclassifying means he is only a significant contributor for 2 years instead of 3 years before going pro.
December 8th, 2021 at 8:28 PM ^
My thoughts exactly.
Its cool when a kid, who could have gone anywhere decides to stay at home for college.
Iowa has done a decent job of producing NFL DBs with 3 star talent, so the NFL is going to find him regardless of where he plays
December 8th, 2021 at 8:43 PM ^
Ryan Day is losing his edge.
December 8th, 2021 at 9:15 PM ^
...to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
December 8th, 2021 at 9:31 PM ^
This is Xavier's teammate, and only a Junior this year. That Southeast Polk Football squad is loaded. I have seen this kid play football many times and also a basketball game this year. Super athletic for kid his size.
December 8th, 2021 at 10:43 PM ^
Understand not wanting to go to OSU. He didn't want to catch the flu.
December 8th, 2021 at 11:24 PM ^
This is about NIL in my opinion. He can make more money as the record breaking recruit, and home town hero. Being just another guy at OSU is not as easy to market.
Also, OSU’s new D-coordinator first swing and miss. I think that guy is going to have recruiting problems.