PrepRedzoneMN Recruiting Report: July 2021

Although it’s been a while since our last statewide recruiting update, check out where Minnesota’s best and brightest prep football players have been offered by, committed to, or transferred from the past month. These colleges and universities recruiting the Land of 10,000 Lakes’ best and brightest include D1s, D2s, D3s, NAIAs, and JUCO programs, and all of these prep players listed deserve to be commended for their hard work paying off with a chance to play college football. Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy! In no particular order… [player_tooltip player_id="18423" first="Chase" last="Carter"] (SMB) Committed to Michigan State [player_tooltip player_id="49822" first="Trejuan" last="Holloman"] (Cretin-Derham Hall) Committed to Michigan State (basketball) [player_tooltip player_id="116202" first="Michael" last="Mankaka"] (Rochester Mayo) Committed to Clemson [player_tooltip player_id="18450" first="Julian" last="Diedrich"] (Wayzata) Committed to St. Thomas [player_tooltip player_id="49838" first="Colton" last="Rada"] (Chaska) Committed to South Dakota [player_tooltip player_id="22923" first="Eli" last="Gillman"] (Dassel-Cokato) Committed to Montana [player_tooltip player_id="136782" first="Adam" last="Adeboye"] (Park Center) Committed to Minnesota State University-Moorhead [player_tooltip player_id="18548" first="Mateo" last="Noriega"] (Burnsville) Committed to North Dakota State [player_tooltip player_id="116251" first="Jamal" last="Dixon"] (Moorhead) Committed to North Dakota [player_tooltip player_id="18431" first="Zach" last="Cochnauer"] (Farmington) Committed to Missouri State Jackson Martens (Burnsville/Iowa Central) Transferring from UNI to Northern State [player_tooltip player_id="1586" first="Spencer" last="Rolland"] (Apple Valley) Transferring from Harvard to Penn State Terence Campbell (Rosemount) 2021. Committed to Ellsworth Community College [player_tooltip player_id="18042" first="RJ" last="Chakolis"] (Hopkins) 2021. Will take a post-grad year at St. Thomas More [player_tooltip player_id="116211" first="Joey" last="Gerlach"] (Woodbury) Committed to South Dakota State [player_tooltip player_id="140175" first="Tommy" last="Hamann"] (Wayzata) Committed to South Dakota State Kaden Zenzen (Barnesville) Committed to North Dakota State [player_tooltip player_id="116204" first="Toby" last="Anene"] (East Ridge) Committed to North Dakota State [player_tooltip player_id="116196" first="Devin" last="Lockerby"] (Fairbault) Committed to North Dakota State [player_tooltip player_id="3501" first="Trey" last="Steinbach"] (Marshall) Transferred from NDSU to Augustana (tweet has since been deleted) [player_tooltip player_id="22947" first="Jacob" last="Eggert"] (Mankato East) Committed to Minnesota-Duluth [player_tooltip player_id="116255" first="Carter" last="Loesch"] (Sauk Rapids-Rice) Committed to Minnesota-Duluth Arzheen Shahin (Moorhead) 2021. Committed to Iowa Western Community College Jake Schaper (Osseo) Put his name in the transfer portal from Minnesota State-Mankato Nick Dengler (Mahtomedi) Put his name in the transfer portal from Northern State Casey Fisher (Fridley) Put his name in the transfer portal from UMary [player_tooltip player_id="18554" first="Leyton" last="Simmering"] (Rosemount) Offered by North Dakota [player_tooltip player_id="116253" first="Anthony" last="Moe-Tucker"] (Kasson-Mantorville) Offered by Minnesota State-Moorhead [player_tooltip player_id="18519" first="Sebastian" last="Amorrortu"] (MPLS North) Offered by Northern State, St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="116208" first="Cayden" last="Holcomb"] (Rochester Mayo) Offered by UMary [player_tooltip player_id="49854" first="Ty" last="Winn"] (Lakeville South) Visited Concordia-Moorhead Declan Maida (MPLS Southwest) Offered by St. Olaf Malcolm Humes Jr. (SMB) Offered by St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="116497" first="Luke" last="Sugalski"] (SMB) Offered by Bowdoin, St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="49856" first="Charlie" last="Broveleit"] (Holy Angels) Offered by St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="18529" first="Cade" last="Fitzgerald"] (Champlin Park) Offered by UW-Eau Claire, Concordia-Moorhead, St. Olaf Isaiah Ward (Centennial) Offered by Minnesota State-Moorhead [player_tooltip player_id="118740" first="Andrew" last="Molenaar"] (Mounds View) Offered by St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="49839" first="Noah" last="Karels"] (Buffalo) Offered by St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="49939" first="RJ" last="Spencer"] (Totino Grace) Offered by St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="116452" first="Connor" last="Weed"] (Farmington) Offered by St. Thomas [player_tooltip player_id="116271" first="Leo" last="Bluhm"] (St. Thomas Academy) Offered by St. Thomas [player_tooltip player_id="116256" first="Nate" last="Litke"] (Spring Lake Park) Offered by Minnesota State-Moorhead Daniel Walker (Champlin Park) Offered by Waldorf University [player_tooltip player_id="18433" first="Camden" last="Royal"] (Robbinsdale Cooper) Visited the University of Texas [player_tooltip player_id="112125" first="Sam" last="Peters"] (Maple Grove) 2023. Visited NDSU [player_tooltip player_id="49835" first="Charlie" last="Coenen"] (Chanhassen) Visited St. Thomas Konnor Kraft (Wayzata) Visited and was offered by St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="116269" first="Camden" last="Ludeman"] (Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial) Camped with Bemidji State, Concordia-St. Paul, SMSU, South Dakota, Northern State Basil Lulu (Hopkins) Camped at Minnesota State-Moorhead [player_tooltip player_id="49880" first="Mason" last="Mix"] (Centennial) Visited Carleton College [player_tooltip player_id="49855" first="Will" last="Turnbull"] (Cloquet) Offered by Southwest Minnesota State [player_tooltip player_id="18521" first="Dalton" last="Barrett"] (Brainerd) Offered by Minnesota State-Moorhead [player_tooltip player_id="116214" first="Xavier" last="Peltoma"] (St. Michael-Albertville) Offered by Northern State, [player_tooltip player_id="116257" first="Hudson" last="Artz"] (Fairmont) Offered by St. Thomas, Concordia-St. Paul [player_tooltip player_id="116250" first="Sanjay" last="Redd"] (SMB) Offered by Concordia-St. Paul, University of St. Thomas [player_tooltip player_id="18428" first="Jacob" last="Kelly"] (Bemidji) Offered by Northern State [player_tooltip player_id="49827" first="Zach" last="Jorgensen"] (Fairmont) Visited and was offered by Northern State. Offered by Bemidji State [player_tooltip player_id="49869" first="Elijah" last="Jopp"] (Mayer Lutheran) Offered by Northern State, Benedictine, UMary [player_tooltip player_id="116260" first="Mark" last="McCarthy"] (Providence Academy) Visited UMary [player_tooltip player_id="49868" first="Ryan" last="Haley"] (Mankato West) Offered by Carnegie Mellon, Brown University [player_tooltip player_id="116191" first="Ethan" last="Fischer"] (Maple River) Offered a PWO from South Dakota State Cristian Christensen (Mound Westonka) Offered by St. Olaf. Visited Minot State, Gustavus, Valley City State [player_tooltip player_id="18545" first="Drew" last="Kittelson"] (Blooming Prairie) Offered by Minnesota State-Mankato Durelle Hall (Cretin-Derham Hall) Offered by UMary. Visited St. Thomas [player_tooltip player_id="49912" first="Matthew" last="Donovan"] (Kasson-Mantorville) Offered by Minnesota State-Moorhead, University of Jamestown [player_tooltip player_id="49877" first="Rod" last="Finley"] (Farmington) Offered by South Dakota School of Mines [player_tooltip player_id="116449" first="Connor" last="Develice"] (Andover) Visited and was offered by Luther College [player_tooltip player_id="116252" first="Gavin" last="Falk"] (Edina) Offered by Winona State. Visited St. Thomas Joe Zachow (Mound Westonka) Visited and was offered by St. Olaf, UW-Eau Claire [player_tooltip player_id="116503" first="Connor" last="Gerrell"] (White Bear Lake) Visited the University of Jamestown, UMary [player_tooltip player_id="116282" first="Preston" last="Engen"] (MPLS Southwest) Visited Concordia-St. Paul Brady Olson (Thief River Falls) Offered by Hamline University [player_tooltip player_id="49876" first="Connery" last="Wiecks"] (Duluth East) Offered by St. Olaf, Hamline. Visited UW-Platteville, St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="112088" first="Joseph" last="Forsberg"] (Martin County West) 2023. Camped with Upper Iowa Grady O’Neill (St. Thomas Academy) Offered by Concordia-St. Paul, Bemidji State [player_tooltip player_id="49867" first="Gus" last="Gartzke"] (Mankato East) Visited Carleton College Gavin Sweeney (LeRoy-Ostrander) Offered by Dakota Wesleyan [player_tooltip player_id="18528" first="Elijah" last="Enna"] (Robbinsdale Cooper) Visited and was offered by Augsburg [player_tooltip player_id="116467" first="Thomas" last="Loeffler"] (St. Clair) Visited and was offered by UW-Eau Claire [player_tooltip player_id="116459" first="Treyton" last="Bammert-Mueller"] (Park) Visited and was offered by UW-Eau Claire, Minnesota State-Moorhead [player_tooltip player_id="116498" first="Ryan" last="Butler"] (Mound Westonka) Camped at MSUM. Offered by St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="49858" first="Conner" last="Elliott"] (Apple Valley) Visited and was offered by UW-Eau Claire. Offered by St. Olaf Connor Besky (Hopkins) Visited and was offered by Luther College. Visited Gustavus Adolphus [player_tooltip player_id="166117" first="Ryan" last="Piepgras"] (Foley) Offered by UMary. Visited and was offered by UW-River Falls [player_tooltip player_id="116194" first="Mason" last="Wilson"] (Stillwater) Offered by Concordia-St. Paul [player_tooltip player_id="49909" first="Colin" last="Dussault"] (Chaska) Offered by Minnesota State-Mankato, Concordia-St. Paul, Brendan Pieper (New Prague) Visited UMD, UW-La Crosse, UW-River Falls Namdi Obiazor (Eden Prairie/Iowa Western) Visited Southeast Missouri [player_tooltip player_id="49947" first="Hayden" last="Hartman"] (Mankato West) Visited UW-River Falls [player_tooltip player_id="138534" first="John" last="Hawkins"] (St. Cloud Cathedral) Visited Hamline University [player_tooltip player_id="49936" first="Diego" last="Reyes"] (Mankato East) Visited Hamline University [player_tooltip player_id="49884" first="Fox" last="Knutson"] (Wayzata) Visited Gustavus Adolphus. Offered by Minnesota State-Moorhead Brock Swanson (Kasson-Mantorville) Visited Hamline University [player_tooltip player_id="49906" first="Walker" last="Britz"] (Mankato West) Visited Hamline University James Durst (Byron) Visited Hamline University Max Walz (Coon Rapids) Offered by Northwestern College [player_tooltip player_id="116482" first="Joe" last="Blom"] (Wayzata) Visited St. Olaf. Offered by Luther College, St. Olaf Owen Barthel (St. Michael-Albertville) Offered by Concordia-St. Paul Josh Magin (Shakopee) Offered by Minnesota-Duluth, Upper Iowa [player_tooltip player_id="116274" first="Cedric" last="Wall"] (Rosemount) Offered a PWO by NDSU and visited [player_tooltip player_id="116484" first="Clay" last="Nielsen"] (Randolph) Offered by Sioux Falls Blake Gode (Lakeville North) Offered by Minnesota State-Mankato, Minnesota-Duluth, Winona State, Bemidji State, UMary [player_tooltip player_id="49831" first="Tommy" last="Niggeling"] (Lakeville North) Offered by Minnesota State-Moorhead, Southwest Minnesota State [player_tooltip player_id="49958" first="Gannon" last="Rosenfeld"] (Mankato West) Offered by St. Olaf, Bemidji State [player_tooltip player_id="49937" first="Miles" last="Townsend"] (Rosemount) Offered by Bemidji State, Minnesota State-Moorhead, St. Olaf [player_tooltip player_id="49823" first="Colton" last="Gregersen"] (Burnsville) Offered by Southwest Minnesota State. Visited St. Thomas [player_tooltip player_id="180378" first="Carson" last="Thompson"] (Rushford-Peterson) Offered by Macalester. Visited UW-Eau Claire, Augsburg Cole Indihar (Prior Lake) Offered by Southwest Minnesota State, Augsburg, St. Olaf. Visited Augsburg [player_tooltip player_id="116198" first="John" last="Kaczor"] (St. Cloud Tech) Offered by Sioux Falls and Southwest Minnesota State