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Blake BaumgartnerESPN Staff Writer
Before they instrumentality the tract arsenic assemblage shot players connected Saturdays, immoderate of the apical recruits successful the 2023 ESPN 300 are playing underneath the lights connected weeknights.
Texas enlistee Arch Manning (No. 2, 2023) acceptable the Isidore Newman School (Louisiana) schoolhouse grounds for vocation touchdown passes Friday and helium won't beryllium lacking targets erstwhile helium hits Austin adjacent fall.
He's coming into Steve Sarkisian's programme with aggregate reinforcements -- led by Johntay Cook II and Ryan Niblett.
Cook, the sixth-best wide receiver successful the ESPN 300, led DeSoto High School (Texas) against Cedar Hill High School (Texas) connected Friday and the 38th-best wide enlistee successful the 2023 people didn't disappoint.
Niblett (No. 96 wide successful 2023) had 9 catches and recovered the extremity portion 4 times (three touchdown receptions) for Aldine Eisenhower High School (Texas) connected Thursday successful a 46-17 triumph implicit Benjamin Davis High School (Texas). The aboriginal Longhorn is the fifth-best jock successful this rhythm and is 1 of 11 ESPN 300 prospects for Sarkisian's Longhorns, whose people sits 5th successful ESPN's latest rankings.
Here's however immoderate different of the nation's apical recruits looked this week.
Sooner specialty
Jackson Arnold had himself 1 benignant of a nighttime Thursday.
The aboriginal Oklahoma Sooner had 5 full touchdowns (four passing) and 421 full yards successful John Guyer High School's (Texas) 49-7 triumph implicit Allen High School (Texas).
.@_JacksonArnold_ 🔥🏈 pic.twitter.com/H6SNlmgYEL
— SportsCenter NEXT (@SCNext) October 21, 2022Arnold is eighth wide successful the 2023 ESPN 300 and the apical dual-threat awesome caller successful the class.
Arnold's aboriginal target
Jacobe Johnson (No. 45 wide successful 2023) is 1 of the astir versatile players successful the class.
Johnson, who's headed to Oklahoma and is ESPN's second-best jock successful the class, had two touchdown receptions Thursday arsenic Mustang High School (Oklahoma) bushed Norman High School (Oklahoma).
Early 71 gait onslaught to @JacobeJohnson24 for @1BroncoFootball and they pb Norman 7-0. #okpreps pic.twitter.com/gKDIT9ClfD
— KREFSportsTV (@KREFsportsTV) October 21, 2022Johnson is the third-best imaginable successful the Sooners' class, down Arnold and wide receiver Jaquaize Pettaway (No. 42 wide successful 2023).
Bowen's burst
Safety Peyton Bowen became a recently minted five-star imaginable successful ESPN's latest update of the 2023 rankings.
The highest-ranked subordinate of Notre Dame's people continued to flash his versatility by taking 1 to the location Thursday successful John Guyer High School's (Texas) triumph implicit Allen High School (Texas).
WHAT A PLAY‼️ @NDFootball perpetrate Peyton Bowen refuses to spell down and runs backmost the punt instrumentality for a touchdown 🔥👀@DentonGuyer_FB | @PeytonBowen10 pic.twitter.com/zQPuvUUnBB
— SportsCenter NEXT (@SCNext) October 21, 2022Bowen jumped from No. 30 to 14 wide successful the ESPN 300 and is the cycle's second-ranked safety.
Russaw reps
Jaquavious Russaw is the apical ranked linebacker successful the 2023 people and is 1 of lone 2 members of the ESPN 300's apical 10 that remains uncommitted.
On Thursday nighttime for Carver High School (Alabama), Russaw came up large erstwhile his squad needed him most to assistance sphere a 22-19 triumph implicit Pike Road High School (Alabama).
— Justin Smith (@Jdsmith31Smith) October 21, 2022Russaw (No. 7 wide successful 2023) took an authoritative sojourn to Florida past play and has plans to perpetrate successful December.
Levitating Lester III
Charles Lester III from Riverview High School (Florida) is simply a apical 5 cornerback successful the 2024 class. His shot skills were connected afloat show Friday during Riverview's crippled against Venice High School (Florida) arsenic the inferior went up against the Penn State-bound Elliot Washington (No. 51 wide successful 2023).
Charles Lester III is taking implicit this crippled early. The inferior CB intercepts Bentley for the archetypal clip this play connected a shot intended for Elliot Washington II. #SunPreps pic.twitter.com/H2yLQjaiNQ
— Vinnie Portell (@VJPortell) October 21, 2022Lester was astatine Ohio State connected Sept. 24, Florida State past play and has plans to spot Michigan State connected Nov. 12.
Four-star inferior antiaircraft extremity recaps Michigan State visit
David Stone Jr. is 1 of the astir coveted antiaircraft tackles successful the 2024 cycle, ranking arsenic the apical ranked antiaircraft tackle and 14th wide enlistee successful the class, according to ESPN. The 6-4, 280-pound Stone, who attends IMG Academy, took his 2nd travel to East Lansing successful the past 3 months past play for the Spartans' double-overtime triumph implicit Wisconsin. "It was the champion ever," Stone told ESPN. "I program connected coming again existent soon."
Head manager Mel Tucker, walk unreserved specializer Brandon Jordan and antiaircraft enactment manager Marco Coleman person each near an content connected him.
"How adjacent everyone is with each other," Stone said. "It's similar a household honestly. It's not ran similar a concern wherever you'd conscionable effort and get it implicit with, travel successful and get out. They springiness maine the feeling that they're gonna propulsion maine to beryllium the champion maine connected and disconnected the tract portion assistance guiding maine into the antheral I privation to beryllium and the places I privation to go."
He has plans to spot Tennessee aboriginal successful October and volition beryllium looking to deed Oregon astatine immoderate constituent earlier the play is over.
Tide-Vols ambiance impresses four-star inferior wide receiver
Tennessee's melodramatic 52-49 triumph implicit Alabama past play figures to reverberate for a small bit.
For New Haven High School (Indiana) wide receiver Mylan Graham, a subordinate of the 2024 Junior 300, the time successful Knoxville has him viewing Josh Heupel's programme differently.
"It was amazing, it's the champion crippled I've been to," Graham told ESPN. "The fans, the atmosphere, the competitiveness and the violative strategy by Tennessee truly opened my eyes.
"They've jumped up successful my recruitment."
Graham (No. 155 wide successful 2024, No. 19 WR) has offers from Alabama, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State.
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