Class of 2026 Recruiting Roundup April ’24

Class of 2026 Recruiting Roundup April &#8217;24

’26 Iowa City West WR/S Mason Goering (12). (Photo: Rob Howe/PRZ-IA)

Rob Howe April 28, 2024 @ 09:52 PM

There are a lot of great aspects of this job. Perhaps none of them are more enjoyable than seeing guys we evaluate go through the recruiting process, eventually finding college homes.   Members of the Class of 2025 are verbally committed to schools and others still are looking, as we <a href="https://prepredzone.com/2024/04/class-of-2025-recruiting-roundup-april-24/">wrote about recently</a>. The goal is to update that list monthly. That's the same plan for each class tracked, including the inaugural '26 rundown below:   [player_tooltip player_id='1221926' first='Carson' last='Nielsen'], our top overall prospect, became the first student-athlete in the cycle to commit when he announced this week that he was headed to Iowa. He also reported scholarship offers from Penn State, Tennessee, Iowa State, Kansas State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin.   Second-ranked [player_tooltip player_id='283946' first='Jayden' last='McGregory'] claims offers from Iowa State, Kansas State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Tennessee and Wisconsin. He's visited Iowa and Minnesota on multiple occasions, and recently stopped at Iowa State and Tennessee.   [player_tooltip player_id='856075' first='DreShaun' last='Ross'] announced an offer from Wisconsin last month. He added it to opportunities from Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Purdue and Wisconsin, and <a href="https://x.com/TeamSebolt/status/1784685424696299746">earning a spot on the USA Wrestling World Team</a>.   Perhaps no recruit in the state has seen his stock rise more this spring than [player_tooltip player_id='1221928' first='Evan' last='Jacobson']. Iowa State offered a scholarship in late March, he visited Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska this spring, and has been invited to summer camps at Alabama, Texas A&M and Mississippi State.   [player_tooltip player_id='1234337' first='Mason' last='Goering'] took game-day visits to South Dakota State, Iowa and Wisconsin in November. He's been invited to camp with the Jackrabbits. [player_tooltip player_id='283943' first='Eli' last='Robbins'] visited Iowa multiple times last fall and held other invitations from Iowa State and Nebaska.   Iowa State and Kansas State played host to [player_tooltip player_id='850243' first='Brayton' last='Alford'] on game-day visits last fall. Those programs along with Princeton, Penn and UNI have invited him to summer camps. [player_tooltip player_id='1238174' first='Colin' last='Whitters'] has visited Iowa multiple times since last summer, stopped at Wisconsin and had a junior day invitation from Missouri.   [player_tooltip player_id='401668' first='Bryce' last='Kock'] could raise his stock this summer with camp invites to Iowa, Iowa State, Nebraska, South Dakota State and Wisconsin. Nebraska, Northwestern, Indiana, Kansas State and Mississippi State have invited [player_tooltip player_id='1240558' first='Andrew' last='Hine'] to summer camps.   Nebraska, Iowa State, Yale and Houston handed out camp invites to [player_tooltip player_id='1234328' first='Lloydson' last='Nyenow Jr']. [player_tooltip player_id='283945' first='Jayden' last='Brown'] and [player_tooltip player_id='1033543' first='Leo' last='Kirkland'] have invitations to Kansas State's camp. North Dakota State, Princeton and Penn, along with mega camps at Kent State and Miami (Ohio), have invited [player_tooltip player_id='212326' first='Hayden' last='Demaray'].   [player_tooltip player_id='1241488' first='Quinn' last='Street'] visited Kansas State this spring and has picked up camp invites from Iowa State and South Dakota State. Nebraska played host to [player_tooltip player_id='1240413' first='Evan' last='Allie'] for its spring game on Saturday. The Huskers and Iowa State have invited him to camp.   Iowa played host to [player_tooltip player_id='1241492' first='Jeffrey' last='Roberts'] for a junior day in January, and then [player_tooltip player_id='1238514' first='Kasen' last='Thomas'] attended a Hawkeye spring practice. [player_tooltip player_id='401870' first='Drake' last='DeGroote'] visited Iowa State for a junior day this spring and has been invited to camp with Yale. [player_tooltip player_id='1238521' first='Cal' last='Jepsen'] took in a Nebraska junior day in March.   [player_tooltip player_id='401674' first='Joey' last='Nahas'] visited Iowa State spring practice, and [player_tooltip player_id='1221956' first='Dawson' last='Kreykes'] attended the Cyclone spring game. [player_tooltip player_id='1221948' first='Jaxon' last='Paulsrud'] watched Iowa's spring game at Kinnick Stadium, and has received camp invitations from Wisconsin, South Dakota State and North Dakota. Indiana and Yale sent [player_tooltip player_id='401673' first='Javaris' last='Morgan'] camp invitations.   Indiana, Northwestern, UConn and Penn have asked [player_tooltip player_id='340216' first='Cael' last='Wishman'] to camp with them. [player_tooltip player_id='856405' first='Jack' last='Ohman'] has invitations from Penn, Princeton and several mega camps.   [player_tooltip player_id='1241376' first='Colton' last='McClish'] has been invited to Northwestern's big man camp this summer. Princeton has invited [player_tooltip player_id='1241533' first='Ty' last='Sanchez-Evans'] to camp. [player_tooltip player_id='1240430' first='Henry' last='Gillies'] visited Harvard in November, and has been invited to camps at Yale and MIT.

There are a lot of great aspects of this job. Perhaps none of them are more enjoyable than seeing guys we evaluate go through the recruiting process, eventually finding college homes.