Welcome to recruiting's busiest month: What's ahead for big visits and potential flips

College shot coaching staffs are disconnected the trail. Top recruits are flocking to campuses crossed the country. At agelong last, authoritative sojourn play is here.

The busiest agelong of the yearly recruiting calendar has commenced with elite prospects traversing the state for authoritative visits from present to the commencement of the quiescent play June 22. As things stand, 146 of the prospects ranked wrong the 2026 ESPN 300 are already committed. That fig volition skyrocket implicit the summertime months arsenic apical programs contention to capable retired their recruiting classes and rising precocious schoolhouse seniors settee connected their assemblage homes.

USC, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State and Clemson entered June with the apical 5 classes successful ESPN's latest squad recruiting rankings for the people of 2026. Here's a primer connected the authorities of play crossed the people arsenic the latest recruiting rhythm begins successful earnest this month:

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What has gone down this spring?

The 4 months since nationalist signing time closed the doorway connected the 2025 people person delivered plentifulness of fireworks successful the 2026 cycle.

Miami violative tackle commit Jackson Cantwell (No. 3 overall) and Georgia backmost pledge Jared Curtis (No. 5) basal among the 5 five-star prospects who person committed since March 1, leaving lone 10 five-star recruits connected the board. The 2026 backmost marketplace has likewise narrowed this outpouring pursuing the pledges of Curtis, Brady Smigiel (No. 44 -- Michigan), Peyton Falzone (No. 235 -- Penn State), Kayd Coffman (No. 237 -- Michigan State) and Derek Zammit (No. 243 -- Washington).

No programme holds much ESPN 300 commits than USC with 13, headlined by five-star pledges Elbert Hill (No. 15 overall) and Keenyi Pepe (No. 17). Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Clemson, Texas A&M, Arizona State, LSU and Georgia person charted immoderate of the strongest starts successful the latest cycle. Beyond the bluish bloods, Kansas, Syracuse, Illinois and Louisville are recruiting astatine an awesome clip six months retired from the aboriginal signing play successful December.

Five-star outlook

As of Monday, 11 of ESPN's 21 five-star prospects successful the 2026 rhythm are committed. What's adjacent for the remaining 10? Things are astir to vigor up for the nation's astir coveted recruits.

DT Lamar Brown, No. 1 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: The two-way lineman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told ESPN he's present being recruited exclusively arsenic a antiaircraft lineman. Brown took an authoritative sojourn with Miami implicit the weekend, and he'll caput to finalists Texas (Friday), Texas A&M (June 13) and LSU (June 20) up of his July 10 committedness day aft swapping a travel to Florida State for this weekend's sojourn with the Longhorns.

ESPN's apical wide imaginable attends precocious schoolhouse connected the LSU campus, and the Tigers are wide leaders successful Brown's process, but plentifulness tin alteration this month.

"It'd beryllium hard for maine to permission Louisiana," helium said. "But it whitethorn not beryllium the champion enactment for me. That's wherefore I'm looking astatine different teams and relationships with different coaches."

RB Derrek Cooper, No. 7 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: The nation's No. 1 moving backmost imaginable opened his slate of authoritative visits astatine Miami and volition get to Alabama (Friday), Georgia (June 13), Florida State (June 15), Penn State (June 17) and Ohio State (June 20) implicit the adjacent month.

Cooper, who held a short-lived committedness to Georgia past summer, remains precocious connected the Bulldogs arsenic good arsenic Ohio State. Another salient contender for the versatile rusher from Hollywood, Florida, is Miami, which is pushing hard to adhd Cooper alongside violative tackle pledge Jackson Cantwell arsenic the program's 2nd five-star cornerstone for 2026.

DE JaReylan McCoy, No. 9 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: McCoy's recruitment appeared wrapped up erstwhile helium committed to LSU connected Jan. 2. But the walk rusher from Tupelo, Mississippi, decommitted from the Tigers a period later.

Though Auburn, Ole Miss and Texas A&M person lingered successful McCoy's process this spring, sources told ESPN that the nation's No. 2 antiaircraft extremity is down to 3 schools: Florida, LSU and Texas. McCoy is taking authoritative visits with each 3 programs -- starting with Florida this past play up of trips to Texas (June 13) and LSU (June 20) --- earlier announcing his committedness July 1.

OT Immanuel Iheanacho, No. 12 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: The nation's apical uncommitted violative tackle is down to Auburn, LSU, Oregon and Penn State and plans to denote his pledge successful aboriginal August. Iheanacho opened his bid of outpouring authoritative visits with LSU past volition beryllium astatine Auburn (Friday), Penn State (June 13) and Oregon (June 20).

After Oregon missed retired connected Cantwell and five-star backmost Jared Curtis past month, sources told ESPN that the Ducks entered June arsenic the person successful Iheanacho's process. His 3 different finalists volition each get their accidental to sway the 6-foot-7, 350-pound lineman this month, with LSU seen arsenic the astir superior contender to situation Oregon for Iheanacho's commitment.

OLB Tyler Atkinson, No. 13 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: ESPN's apical linebacker opened his authoritative sojourn slate with a travel to Clemson implicit the weekend. Atkinson does not yet person immoderate different authoritative trips connected the calendar, but Auburn, Georgia, Ohio State and Oregon basal among the salient powers expected to onshore visits successful the coming weeks and months.

Georgia mightiness participate the summertime with a flimsy borderline for the productive in-state linebacker from Loganville. However, Atkinson's recruitment remains wide unfastened arsenic of now.

ATH Brandon Arrington, No. 14 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: Projected to play cornerback astatine the adjacent level, Arrington volition person taken authoritative visits with Penn State, Washington, Texas A&M, Alabama and USC by the clip helium wraps his travel to Oregon connected June 20.

Oregon, Texas A&M and USC person been the accordant leaders successful Arrington's recruitment implicit the past year. Washington has entered the premix arsenic a late-arriving contender. All six schools volition proceed to beryllium progressive successful the pursuit for Arrington's pledge up to his July 5 committedness date.

DE Richard Wesley, No. 18 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: Wesley's May 10 committedness to Oregon lasted each of 17 days. Upon pulling his pledge from the Ducks past week, Wesley's recruitment remains unfastened arsenic the coveted 2027 reclass works done an accelerated process.

The circumstances of Wesley's surprise pledge and subsequent decommitment from Oregon hasn't soured his narration with the program. He'll instrumentality for an authoritative sojourn with the Ducks connected Friday earlier trips to Texas (June 20) and Ohio State (Aug. 30). Tennessee and Texas A&M are among others moving to onshore an authoritative sojourn day with Wesley.

TE Kaiden Prothro, No. 19 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: The lanky 6-7, 210-pound receiving choky extremity from Bowdon, Georgia, opened an all-SEC tally of authoritative visits astatine Georgia implicit the weekend. Alabama (Friday), Auburn (June 10), Florida (June 13) and Texas (June 20) are adjacent successful enactment arsenic the recruitment of the highly rated choky extremity imaginable gains steam.

Georgia, with household ties and a past of processing choky ends, appears the astir apt destination for Prothro portion Auburn and Florida are 2 different programs pushing particularly hard successful his recruitment this spring.

OT Felix Ojo, No. 20 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: A promising violative enactment recruit, Ojo volition extremity up taking a whopping 8 authoritative visits betwixt April 18 and June 20. He already has made stops astatine Ole Miss, Texas Tech, Colorado, Florida and Ohio State this outpouring and volition question to Michigan (June 7), Texas (June 13) and Oklahoma (June 20) implicit the adjacent month.

Ojo tells ESPN that Ohio State, Texas and Texas Tech person been the astir assertive programs successful his recruitment this spring. He's aiming to perpetrate earlier the commencement of his elder season, truthful the relationships Ojo builds implicit the adjacent period of visits volition beryllium cardinal to his process.

DE Jake Kreul, No. 21 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: A disruptive walk rusher from Florida's IMG Academy, Kreul volition sojourn Florida (June 7), Texas (June 13) and Oklahoma (June 20) this period pursuing erstwhile officials to Colorado and Ohio State this spring.

No programme has worked harder to asseverate itself successful Kreul's recruitment than Oklahoma. Per ESPN sources, the Sooners presumption the 6-foot-3, 235-pound defender arsenic a precedence people successful 2026. Among the apical challengers for Kreul's pledge, expect Texas and Ohio State to beryllium heavy progressive this summer.

Landing spots for the apical uncommitted quarterbacks

The period began with lone 4 of the 18 passers ranked wrong the 2026 ESPN 300 uncommitted with astir a twelve apical programs inactive searching for a 2026 QB pledge. How mightiness things unfold for the backmost market's apical recruits implicit the adjacent 3 months?

QB Ryder Lyons, No. 49 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: ESPN's fifth-ranked pouch passer has courted involvement from BYU, Michigan, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Oregon and USC this spring. Three of those programs -- BYU, Oregon and USC -- volition get Lyons connected field implicit the adjacent month.

BYU has made immoderate astonishment splashes connected the recruiting way this spring, and USC is moving to get the in-state backmost to articulation his brother, Walker, with the Trojans. But up of authoritative visits connected each of the adjacent 3 weekends, it's Oregon that looks astir apt to onshore Lyons, who volition enroll successful 2027 pursuing an LDS ngo aft his precocious schoolhouse graduation.

QB Landon Duckworth, No. 104 successful the 2025 ESPN 300: Auburn, Florida State, Ole Miss and South Carolina are all-in connected the nation's apical dual-threat quarterback. While each 4 programs volition big Duckworth for officials this spring, sources archer ESPN that Ole Miss and South Carolina person established themselves arsenic wide leaders successful his process this spring.

Coach Lane Kiffin and the Rebels person worked harder than immoderate different schoolhouse successful Duckworth's recruitment, selling the mobile passer connected his acceptable successful the Ole Miss discourtesy and the program's grounds of improvement astatine the position. South Carolina, which antecedently held Duckworth's pledge from August 2023 to June 2024, continues to support a beardown beingness successful his process, arsenic well. Visits with some programs successful the coming weeks volition beryllium pivotal for Duckworth.

QB Oscar Rios, No, 192 successful the 2026 ESPN 300: The erstwhile Purdue pledge holds a database of 7 finalists -- Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, UCLA, Utah and Virginia Tech -- up of visits to Utah, UCLA, Arizona and Colorado this period pursuing earlier trips to Kentucky, Oklahoma State and Virginia Tech.

Kentucky remains a person among the schools Rios has already visited. Plenty tin alteration crossed the drawstring of visits successful beforehand of him successful the coming weeks up of a June 25 committedness date, days aft Rios closes his tally of officials with a sojourn to Colorado.

QB Bowe Bentley, No. 261 successful the 2025 ESPN 300: The dual-threat backmost from Celina, Texas, is down to LSU and Oklahoma. Bentley spent this past play with the Tigers and volition marque his latest travel to the Sooners this coming weekend, portion of a plaything of back-to-back officials that could assistance determine 1 of the astir intriguing backmost recruitments successful the cycle.

Sources wrong some programs consciousness assured astir their chances with Bentley, who is apt to marque a determination not agelong aft wrapping up his brace of authoritative visits aboriginal this month.

Elite accomplishment presumption recruits and apical defenders

Past the five-star firepower, there's plentifulness much disposable endowment successful the precocious crust of the 2026 class.

Four of the nation's apical 5 moving backs stay uncommitted this month, led by No. 1 Derrek Cooper. No. 2 rusher Savion Hiter (No. 27 overall) volition instrumentality officials with Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan and Tennessee anterior to the quiescent period. Ezavier Crowell, a reclass from the 2027 cycle, is acceptable to perpetrate connected June 26 aft ESPN's No. 30 imaginable visits Georgia, Texas, Auburn, Florida State and Alabama. Baylor, Florida and Houston are each connected the database for four-star rusher Davian Groce (No. 35), whose recruitment remains "wide open," per ESPN sources.

LSU and Texas A&M basal arsenic the apical contenders for four-star wide receiver Ethan Feaster (No. 23 overall) up of his July 4 committedness date. Elsewhere successful the wide receiver class, sources archer ESPN that Florida, Florida State and LSU are mounting the gait for Calvin Russell (No. 26), portion Alabama continues to pb the pursuit for in-state walk catcher Cederian Morgan (No. 47).

On defense, Alabama and Oregon clasp a flimsy borderline with four-star information Jett Washington (No. 22 overall) arsenic the nation's apical information preps for officials with some schools on with Ohio State and USC. The Crimson Tide are besides starring the complaint for extracurricular linebacker Xavier Griffin (No. 28), the erstwhile USC perpetrate who volition sojourn Florida State, Georgia, Texas aft a travel to Ohio State implicit the weekend.

Four-star information Jireh Edwards (No. 29) has acceptable his committedness day for July 5 and already visited Auburn and Maryland successful caller weeks. Edwards told ESPN that he's heading into upcoming trips to Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M and Oregon with "an unfastened mind." Sources archer ESPN that antiaircraft extremity Anthony Jones (No. 25) and extracurricular linebacker D.Q. Forkpa (No. 40) are 2 of the apical defenders connected the committee this outpouring for Miami and manager Mario Cristobal.

Flip watch

DE Zion Elee, No. 2 successful the 2026 ESPN 300, Maryland commit

Elee was slated for a bid of summertime officials crossed the Big Ten and SEC earlier helium closed his recruitment and cancelled those trips successful February. That's wherefore his authoritative sojourn to Auburn past period raised eyebrows, adjacent portion Elee asserts he's inactive locked successful with the Terps.

"I person a clump of erstwhile teammates determination truthful I conscionable wanted to cheque it out," helium told ESPN. "I wasn't reasoning thing of it. I'm inactive steadfast with Maryland. I conscionable wanted to instrumentality pictures."

The historical section people Maryland dreamed of gathering astir Elee -- deliberation Iheanacho, Edwards et al -- doesn't look likely. And with bluish bloods inactive pursuing Elee this spring, his recruitment volition stay 1 to ticker from present to signing day. As things stand, Elee is committed to the Terps with plans to instrumentality to Maryland for his lone scheduled authoritative sojourn of the period connected June 20.

WR Tristen Keys, No. 10 successful the 2026 ESPN 300, LSU commit

Keys has been the top-ranked subordinate of the Tigers' 2026 people since March 19, but the LSU pledge hasn't kept ESPN's No. 2 wide receiver from taking different visits. After outpouring trips to Auburn, Miami, Ole Miss and Texas A&M, Keys was backmost astatine Miami for an authoritative implicit the weekend.

Following his Hurricanes visit, sources archer ESPN that Keys volition get to Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee and Texas A&M for officials this period earlier his June 20 travel to LSU. As Keys keeps his recruitment, manager Brian Kelly's quality to bent onto five-star endowment volition beryllium tested again this cycle.

QB Keisean Henderson, No. 16 successful the 2026 ESPN 300, Houston commit

Programs crossed the Big Ten and ACC spent the outpouring chipping distant astatine Henderson's Houston commitment. Florida State yet broke done this month, landing a June 9 authoritative sojourn from the mobile, 6-foot-3 passer.

Henderson has held steadfast connected his pledge to the Cougars portion maintaining dialog with aggregate programs this spring. While sources archer ESPN that determination has been nary alteration successful his committedness presumption oregon plans with Houston, Henderson's sojourn to Florida State marks caller territory successful his recruitment.

QB Jaden O'Neal, No. 122 successful the 2026 ESPN 300, Oklahoma commit

Despite 11 months spent successful the Sooners' 2026 people and an offseason transportation from California to Oklahoma's Mustang High School, O'Neal could soon beryllium connected the move.

The departure of Sooners violative coordinator Seth Littrell past autumn unsettled O'Neal's camp, and sources archer ESPN that the program's full-throttle pursuit of Bowe Bentley nether caller violative coordinator Ben Arbuckle has damaged the spot betwixt O'Neal and Oklahoma. O'Neal visited Arizona implicit the weekend, and his upcoming authoritative travel to Florida State looms particularly ample with Bentley nearing a determination and backmost dominoes getting acceptable to autumn this month.

Biggest visits

Alabama (June 6-8): The Crimson Tide's archetypal recruiting people nether manager Kalen DeBoer got rolling successful June past year. Alabama could spell a agelong mode toward turbocharging its 2026 people this play with 4 top-30 recruits connected field betwixt five-star accomplishment talents Derrek Cooper (No. 7 overall) and Kaiden Prothro (No. 19) and four-star defenders Xavier Griffin (No. 28) and Jireh Edwards (No. 29).

Auburn (June 13-15): The Tigers volition person a large sanction connected field this play erstwhile five-star violative tackle Immanuel Iheanacho (No. 12 overall) takes his authoritative travel to Auburn. But the play of June 13 volition springiness manager Hugh Freeze and his unit a changeable astatine aggregate elite targets, including moving backmost Ezavier Crowell (No. 30), information Bralan Womack (No. 31) and wide receiver Cederian Morgan (No. 47).

Florida (June 13-15): While the Gators volition person elite prospects connected field each month, Florida has a accidental to physique momentum with respective apical targets 2 weekends from now. Prothro and No. 4 moving backmost Davian Groce (No. 35 overall) header a talented radical of visitors that could besides see top-40 linebacker Izayia Williams -- who flipped from Florida to Ole Miss past period -- and antiaircraft tackle Kendall Guervil (No. 253), a precedence in-state recruit.

Florida State (June 9-15): It's not precisely a weekend, but the Seminoles volition embark connected a defining agelong of backmost visits successful the mediate of the month. It'll commencement with a sojourn from five-star passer Keisean Henderson (No. 16 overall) earlier apical dual-threat passer Landon Duckworth (No. 104) connected June 13 and Oklahoma pledge Jaden O'Neal (No. 112) connected June 15 besides marque visits.

Georgia (June 6-8): The Bulldogs volition big a bid of dense hitters this play with moving backmost Savion Hiter (No. 27 overall), cornerback Chauncey Kennon (No. 48) and violative tackle Ekene Ogboko (No. 50) acceptable to visit. Georgia gets Cooper, different apical moving backmost target, connected field starting June 13.

Michigan (June 13-15): Coach Sherrone Moore and the Wolverines volition invited 8 top-150 prospects connected June 13. Hiter, No. 3 jock Salesi Moa (No. 34 overall) and extracurricular linebacker D.Q. Forkpa (No. 40) pb the radical of blue-chip visitors. Top-75 violative tackles John Turntine III (No. 43) and Leo Delaney (No. 75) people different brace of cardinal visitors.

Notre Dame (June 20-22): The Fighting Irish volition big astir a twelve commits from June 13 to 15 but could proceed to bolster the nation's second-ranked people a week later. Notre Dame volition look to permission a lasting content connected Ogboko, ESPN's No. 8 violative tackle, four-star antiaircraft tackle Elijah Golden (No. 84 overall) and jock Joey O'Brien (No. 102) connected the last play earlier the summertime quiescent period.

Oregon (June 20-22): Coach Dan Lanning volition get his apical 2026 perpetrate -- five-star choky extremity Kendre' Harrison -- connected field connected the last authoritative sojourn play of June with a accidental to marque a people with a fig of different cardinal Oregon targets. Iheanacho and Edwards are acceptable to sojourn connected June 20 alongside five-star jock Brandon Arrington (No. 14 overall), extracurricular linebacker Talanoa Ili (No. 53), cornerback Khary Adams (No. 68) and jock Jalen Lott (No. 108).