Recruiting Rundown: The Offers Are Rolling in For the 2024 Class

Several top prospects have received official offers from the Crimson Tide in the last week, including some that were projected to join other programs.

Offers, offers, and more offers.

A lot of prospects in the 2024 class have seen the offers from programs start to roll in, and that includes offers from Nick Saban and Alabama football.

This portion of the recruiting cycle isn't anything out of the ordinary, especially as juniors are enjoying the fruits of their labor after a successful season in the fall and 7-on-7 games in the spring.

That is the case with Marcelles Williams, the 4-star cornerback from St. John Bosco in California. 

Extremely blessed to have received a scholarship offer to the University of Alabama❗️ #rolltide @HolmonWiggins @Coach_TRob @AlabamaFTBL pic.twitter.com/a3CnwHKcgp

— Marcelles Williams (@cellesthegreat1) February 17, 2023

Williams has offers from about half of the SEC schools, along with offers from future SEC schools Texas and Oklahoma. The top-10 cornerback prospect has also received offers from other Power 5 programs, including Ohio State, Miami and USC.

Williams, like most recruits, will continue to receive offers, take visits, talk to coaches and participate in camps and will make a decision in the summer or the fall.

It's also not uncommon to see top prospects already choose a program, like 5-star prospects Julian Sayin and Jalen Mbakwe for Alabama. Some guys want to avoid all the theatrics and simply want to play football. Sure, commits could change their mind at any time (ask Kadyn Proctor), but a player committing early to a Power 5 program, specifically one of the blue bloods, is a respectable course of action with very little chance of reneging.

But there is some gray area when it comes to prospects receiving offers, like when a player is close to making a decision before a school like Alabama swoops in. That's the case with Styles Prescod and Keylen Adams.

Prescod, an Indiana native, was projected to choose between in-state programs Notre Dame and Purdue. 

Adams, a Virginia native, has gone one step further by already announcing his final four options before receiving an offer from the Crimson Tide.

In some ways it is similar to Proctor; the teams that have the best chance are the top programs in the state and probably knew those players the longest. And when a player is close to making a decision, it's hard for any program, even a blue blood at times, to try and work their magic. 

Then again, there are blue bloods, then there is Alabama.

Tide-bits

• On the basketball side of recruiting, top-50 prospect Derrion Reid has said several schools are recruiting him the hardest, Alabama among them

• Jase Richardson, another top-50 basketball prospect in the 2024 class, said that Alabama is recruiting him hard, along with Michigan State, Kansas and Arkansas

• Carter Nelson, a top-10 football prospect at the tight end position, just received an offer from Alabama

Blessed to have received an offer from the University of Alabama!! #rolltide pic.twitter.com/AyQmXh7gpT

— Carter Nelson (@Carter83854638) February 16, 2023

Recruits To Remember

• SF Derrion Reid (basketball) - 6 feet, 7 inches, 180 pounds, Grovetown (GA) High School, consensus 4-star prospect.

• PG Jase Richardson (basketball) - 6 feet, 2 inches, 165 pounds, Las Vegas, Bishop Gorman, consensus 4-star prospect

• TE Carter Nelson (football) - 6 feet, 4 inches, 205 pounds, Ainsworh (NE) High School, consensus 4-star prospect