Nationwide Signing Day Staff Highlight: No. 15 USC
Nationwide Signing Day has come and gone and whereas the 2025 class isn’t completed since there’s a late signing interval in February as nicely, a lot of the motion occurred this week.
Rivals is breaking down every Prime 25 recruiting class and we proceed right here with No. 15 USC.
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WHAT WENT RIGHT …
Touchdown five-star defensive lineman Jahkeem Stewart – and beating LSU – on Nationwide Signing Day was a monumental victory for the Trojans. Stewart is arguably the very best defensive participant within the 2025 Rivals250 and pairing him with place coach Eric Henderson, who has NFL expertise, could possibly be a match made in heaven.
After five-star quarterback Julian Lewis flipped to Colorado, the Trojans did a terrific job of getting a backup plan and flipping native four-star standout Husan Longstreet from Texas A&M. The Trojans additionally dodged some main bullets late as Romero Ison, Harry Dalton and Stephen Miller didn’t flip to Southeast applications.
WHAT WENT WRONG …
USC had a unprecedented quantity of decommitments. So many who if all (and even many) of them stayed pledged to the Trojans they’d have simply been within the working for the No. 1 class within the nation.
And that is USC’s conundrum transferring ahead: The Trojans landed a ton of early commitments from elite Southeast prospects solely to see them flip elsewhere later. USC nonetheless must recruit that a part of the nation however there may be all the time some disappointment and ache related to conserving these commits via signing day.
5-stars Lewis, Justus Terry, Hylton Stubbs and Isaiah Gibson have been as soon as dedicated to USC together with elite four-stars Jerome Myles, Hayden Lowe, Anquon Fegans, Ty Jackson, Dominick Kelly, Carde Smith, Shamar Arnoux and Daune Morris.
That’s quite a bit to lose however credit score nonetheless goes to USC for ending with a top-15 class regardless of all these departures.
PARTING PREDICTION
Prediction: Stewart will probably be a first-round NFL Draft choose in three years.
Stewart reclassified to the 2025 class from 2026 however he’s such a phenom on the defensive aspect of the ball (and he’s going to be coached by somebody with NFL expertise who will squeeze all of his expertise out of him).
What separates Stewart from so many others is his will to work and his need for greatness. He didn’t play a number of highschool soccer due to switch guidelines which is a priority as a result of the resume isn’t precisely there. However when he’s on the sphere he dominates and he was superior on the Rivals 5-Star over the summer season.
If Stewart stays targeted and takes to teaching at USC, he’s going to realize glorious publicity within the Massive Ten and ought to be a family title very quickly.
