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UCF Spring Unofficial Visit List: Bryce Lovett & Clay Wedin Slated to Visit UCF Next Week

As the spring approaches, look for more names to be added to UCF Football’s unofficial visitor list.

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ORLANDO - The months of March and April will be busy for the Knights. Recruits setting visits and then changing when they will venture to Orlando to visit Gus Malzahn and his program.

Look for many names to be added in the coming days, and even then there will inevitably be more that show up at UCF that were not necessarily expected by the media or the general public at large. There’s also a very important note that fits with this particular recruiting class more than any other in the last 20 years.

Keep in mind that the 2023 cycle is really unusual because of the coaching carousel that took place around college football in December all the way to the present day.

Around the country, college prospects already built numerous relationships with college coaches and then saw those same coaches jump from one program to the NFL or head off to another college football program.

With the loss of familiarity with so many different coaches – think about the Florida and Miami staffs – many recruits will look for new opportunities, as well as potentially circle back to those other programs. Take national cornerback/wide receiver recruit Cormani McClain from Lakeland (Fla.) Lake Gibson as an example based on this tweet  as a prime example:

With that quote from one of the nation's top recruits from right in the heart of Florida in mind, understand that UCF can quickly get in the mix for a prospect like McClain, or just about any other, rather quickly. That’s also why the following list should grow rapidly, as will be the case for future visit weekends through March to April 14 when the NCAA cuts off the unofficial visit timeline.

Note: This article will be updated as the month of March moves forward and there will also be updates for future unofficial visit weekends.

RECRUITING NOTES March 11 

The 6'6", 330-pound Bryce Lovett, and the 6'5", 290-pound Clay Wedin, will both be visiting UCF on the 15th of March. That's great news for the UCF Knights Football program.

Lovett plays for Rockledge (Fla.) High School and Wedin plays for Tampa (Fla.) Carrollwood Day School. Both players are national recruits that have the talent to play for any program in America.

As UCF continues to move towards the Big XII in 2023, landing talented offensive lineman like these two young men is pivotal. To beat the best, UCF needs to recruit the best. UCF Head Football Coach Gus Malzahn and his coaching staff have gone "all-in" with recruiting the greater Central Florida area. 

From Clearwater Beach to Cocoa Beach, UCF is continuously active. Both Lovett and Wedin fall within that specific recruiting footprint. They are two more prime examples of how UCF is not backing down from anyone when it comes to hitting the recruiting trail.

Lovett has offers from the likes of UCF, Florida, Kentucky, Coastal Carolina, Indiana, Duke, Missouri, West Virginia, Iowa State, Arkansas, and Louisville. His recruitment really started to take off during the past six months. He's expected to receive several more offers prior to National Signing Day.

Wedin, meanwhile, has been a national recruit since before his sophomore year of high school. A well trained and motivated player, this road grader has offers from a plethora of schools including but not limited to Alabama, Auburn, UCF, Georgia, Florida State, Kentucky, LSU, Miami, Ohio State, Michigan State, Michigan, Ole Miss, Penn State, Southern California and Tennessee.

With those two offer lists in consideration, it places the importance of each player's recruitment. It's still a long way to go with UCF and the 2023 recruiting class, but these two are prime examples of the type of talent that's near the UCF campus, as well as the competition that the Knights will face to sign one or both of these talented offensive lineman. 

Here is the beginning of the list of prospects that are headed to UCF for the rest of the month of March:

March 14

Landon Hale, Safety/Linebacker, Yulee (Fla.) High School (2023)

UCF hosting Jacksonville area prospect Landon Hale next week. Playing for Yulee (Fla.) High School, Hale has moved around the secondary to help his squad in a myraid of ways with man and zone coverage. He's also a player that's been a major part of special teams play.

The 6'2", 185-pound Hale could project to safety or possibly even the "Knight" position, which is the hybrid safety-linebacker. Finding athletic and versatile defenders to play in space is a priority in every recruiting class, so it's going to be interesting to see if the Knights offer this man a scholarship. Here's what he had to say about UCF:

"I have a few connections at UCF. Coach Chip Lindsey, who offered me at Troy is there and I have been texting with him and I have also been texting with coach Addision Williams. He was just down at a coaching clinic with my coaches at Yulee so they talked about me and my brother and we just went from there.

"We locked in on the 14th because I will be on the way home from FIU. Then we are going to swing by and take an unofficial visit to UF on the 15th (of March)."

This spring will be vital for Hale's recruitment, and so too could this June when college camps really ramp up. Keep an eye on Hale as he's the type of player that the UCF Knights built their program on: excellent athletes that have room to grow and potential multi-position flexibility.

March 15

Andreas Foreman, Linebacker, Rockledge (Fla.) High School (2023)

Bryce Lovett, Offensive Line, Rockledge (Fla.) High School (2023)

Clay Wedin, Offensive Line, Tampa (Fla.) Carrollwood Day School (2023)

March 19 

Javin Simpkins, RB, Miami (Fla.) Norland (2023)

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Malachi Singleton, QB, Kennesaw (Ga.) North Cobb (2023)

Zachary Tobe, CB, Ocoee (Fla.) High School (2023)

Tyler Williams, WR, Lakeland (Fla.) High School (2023)

Tyree Young, CB, Kingsland (Ga.) Camden County

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Jalyn Crawford, CB, Lilburn (Ga.) Parkview (2024)

March 25

Kavion Henderson, Defensive Line, Leeds (Ala.) High School (2024)

March 29

Isaiah Nixon, Defensive End, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Lakewood (2023)

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