2020-21 Early National Signing Day Special: MN Made

Ah, National Signing Day. The day of reckoning and a culmination of a lot of hard work for prep athletes around the nation has now began in the middle of December since the NCAA instituted a, "Early Signing Day" a couple of years back, leapfrogging the traditional signing day on the first Wednesday in February. Although it is a day mainly of celebration, sometimes the ESD and NSD are days filled with anxiety and stress, as D1 programs can and do drop scholarships at the last minute, preps back out last second and commit to another school, and high school coaches scramble to find homes for their talented athletes. It’s also noteworthy that nowadays a lot of the D1 prospects - particularly in this pandemic year - elect to enroll early in January to get a head start on Spring football, so this day really signifies a last hooray for a lot of these guys. Overall, there is a lot that goes down, but luckily this ESD in the state of Minnesota was relatively calm and remained a day of celebration. Although the signing days normally revolve around Division 1 prospects and programs, kids at all levels of football use the day and event to confirm football commitments of their own. For that reason it’s an excellent opportunity to find and review recruiting signings of Minnesota preps to programs around the nation, so PrepRedzoneMN wanted to give our subscribers a one-stop shop to check out which Minnesotans signed where, what college programs are the deepest with MN preps, and more. Thanks for reading, and congratulations to all of the standout athletes who made a life-changing decision today. Hard work pays off! Minnesota [player_tooltip player_id="18030" first="Deven" last="Eastern"] (Shakopee) DL. 6’6, 280 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18059" first="Eli" last="Mau"] (Chanhassen) LB. 6’2, 225 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18028" first="Logan" last="Purcell"] (Annandale) OT. 6’7, 240 lbs. Wisconsin [player_tooltip player_id="18025" first="Riley" last="Mahlman"] (Lakeville South) OL. 6’8, 265 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18027" first="Jake" last="Ratzlaff"] (Rosemount) LB. 6’2, 220 lbs. North Dakota State [player_tooltip player_id="18063" first="Bryce" last="Lance"] (Marshall) WR. 6’2, 165 lbs. Eli Green (Farmington) WR. 5’11, 185 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="23782" first="Finn" last="Diggins"] (Perham) TE. 6’5, 225 lbs. Sam Henry (Eden Prairie) OT. 6’6, 255 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18049" first="Brayden" last="Weber"] (Becker) LB. 6’1, 225 lbs. North Dakota [player_tooltip player_id="18044" first="Trey" last="Feeney"] (Moorhead) QB. 6’3, 195 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="22926" first="Jaden" last="Norby"] (West Central Area-Ashby) TE. 6’4, 230 lbs. Edmund Ocansey (Champlin Park) DB. 6’1, 165 lbs. Jake Richter (Detroit Lakes/Minnesota State University-Moorhead) WR. 6’4, 215 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18110" first="Casey" last="Schultz"] (Caledonia) DE. 6’4, 230 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18050" first="Gaven" last="Ziebarth"] (Cambridge-Isanti) RB. 6’, 215 lbs. South Dakota [player_tooltip player_id="18061" first="Gerrit" last="Poncius"] (Buffalo) OT. 6’7, 275 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18207" first="Nyle" last="Dickel"] (MPLS Washburn) LB. 6’3, 225 lbs. Iowa [player_tooltip player_id="18029" first="Justice" last="Sullivan"] (Eden Prairie) DE. 6’2, 225 lbs. Syracuse [player_tooltip player_id="18140" first="Tyler" last="Magnuson"] (Wayzata) OT. 6’7, 260 lbs. Notre Dame [player_tooltip player_id="18031" first="Joe" last="Alt"] (Totino-Grace) TE/OL. 6’7, 245 lbs. University of St. Thomas [player_tooltip player_id="18096" first="Owen" last="Johnson"] (Mankato West) S. 5’11, 200 lbs. Nicholas Hand (Totino-Grace) DB. 6’3, 180 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18035" first="Kristoff" last="Kowalkowski"] (Totino-Grace) QB. 6’2, 215 lbs. Bryce Boyd (Holy Angels) WR. 6’5, 185 lbs. Noah Friedt (Apple Valley) LB/DL. 6’3, 220 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18115" first="Jason" last="Laliberte"] (Maple Grove) OT. 6’7, 282 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="23684" first="John" last="McBride"] (White Bear Lake) TE. 6’6, 245 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18077" first="Alec" last="Rasmussen"] (Wayzata) OL. 6’6, 275 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18128" first="Savion" last="Robinson"] (SMB) CB. 6’, 170 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18043" first="Shawn" last="Shipman"] (Champlin Park) RB. 5’11, 200 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18057" first="Nic" last="Snuggerud"] (Chaska) 5’10, 175 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18051" first="Jordan" last="Titus"] (Hutchinson) DL. 6’1, 280 lbs. Army West Point [player_tooltip player_id="18089" first="Kenyatta" last="Brannon"] (Chanhassen) TE/OL. 6’4, 240 lbs. Cal-Berkeley [player_tooltip player_id="18026" first="Bastian" last="Swinney"] (Edina) OT. 6’7, 275 lbs. North Carolina A&T [player_tooltip player_id="18066" first="Zach" last="Yeager"] (MPLS North) QB. 6’2, 220 lbs. University of Northern Iowa [player_tooltip player_id="18033" first="Terrance" last="Kamara"] (MPLS North) RB. 5’9, 180 lbs. [player_tooltip player_id="18039" first="Michael" last="Olowo"] (Rogers) CB. 6’1, 190 lbs. Benny Sapp (Eden Prairie/University of Minnesota) DB. 6’1, 205 lbs. South Dakota State [player_tooltip player_id="18038" first="Josh" last="Buri"] (Stewartville/Brookings HS) RB. 5’11, 210 lbs. Valparaiso Ayden Davison (Robbinsdale Cooper) DL/LB. 6’, 210 lbs. *Committed today Grand View (NAIA) [player_tooltip player_id="18127" first="Trent" last="Finney"] (SMB) TE. 6’4, 240 lbs. Dordt (NAIA) [player_tooltip player_id="22933" first="Jake" last="Cochnauer"] (Farmington) DB. 6’, 205 lbs. Brody Ash (Milaca) DL. 6’4, 230 lbs. Nathan Warner (Glencoe-Silver Lake) OL/DL. 6’3, 280 lbs. Committed Today Luke Gunderson (Buffalo) WR. 6’3, 210 lbs. Committed to Northern State University Cole Kuznia (St. Francis) OL. Committed to University of Jamestown [player_tooltip player_id="18123" first="Quincy" last="Mabin"] (Farmington) OL. 6’3, 270 lbs. Committed to Bemidji State August Hanglseben (Monticello) OL. Committed to University of Jamestown. Other News Jermaine Johnson (Eden Prairie/Independence CC/Georgia) DE. Has entered the transfer portal Nico Bolden (Woodbury/New Mexico) DB. Has entered transfer portal Boye Mafe (Hopkins/University of Minnesota) Named All-B1G HM Ramaud Chiaokhiao-Bowman (Breck/Northerwestern) Named All-B1G HM