UCLA Football Sends Offer to Top Local Defensive Back Zabien Brown
The Bruins are continuing to construct out their future recruiting board with the best prospective clients Southern California has to give.
Course of 2024 cornerback Zabien Brown picked up an offer from UCLA football on Sunday, he introduced on Twitter. Brown is coming off a star sophomore year with Mater Dei (CA), but his recruitment has been purple very hot considering the fact that his freshman year.
Brown was provided by UNLV, FIU, Oregon Condition, Michigan and USC just before he at any time played a activity for the Monarchs, and Penn Point out was not considerably at the rear of. Final summer season, he acquired delivers from Ga and Alabama before incorporating just one from Boston Higher education midseason.
This offseason, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Utah, Cal, Oregon and now UCLA have jumped on board in recruiting Brown.
Just after showing at the ESPN300 Elite Underclassmen Camp in 2021 and earning a location on the All-Trinity League 2nd Team Protection as a freshman, Brown was named to MaxPreps’ Preseason Sophomore All-The usa Crew. Brown produced excellent on that preemptive honor by generating MaxPreps’ official Sophomore All-The us Group by year’s finish.
Brown put up 23 tackles, 1. tackle for reduction, 3 interceptions and 5 passes defended in the fall 2021 marketing campaign for the undefeated Mater Dei, which has manufactured UCLA defensive backs Quentin Lake and William Nimmo III and tight close Mike Martinez, as nicely as above a dozen NFL players.
Mater Dei has a more concrete record of sending gamers to USC, but there is even now a long runway forward in the recruitment of the 6-foot-1 cornerback from Los Alamitos. UCLA has also sent presents to Mater Dei’s beginning quarterback Elijah Brown and their beginning offensive tackles DeAndre Carter and Brandon Baker.
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Brown is a 4-star recruit, in accordance to 247Sports activities and Rivals. In the 247Athletics Composite, Brown is the No. 11 player in California, the No. 10 cornerback in the place and the No. 91 overall prospect in his class.
UCLA’s cornerback space is experiencing a good deal of turnover heading into 2022, obtaining now misplaced three starters in Obi Eboh, Cameron Johnson and Jay Shaw. Meanwhile, Devin Kirkwood may leave for the NFL immediately after the 2023 marketing campaign, and Jaylin Davies and John Humphrey could be in their remaining years with the plan occur 2024 without the need of a single 2022 or 2023 dedicate to do well them.
Defensive backs mentor Brian Norwood has now doled out two offers to 2024 cornerbacks, getting just made 1 to St. John Bosco (CA) item Marcelles Williams on May perhaps 12. The two Los Angeles-dependent corners are the consensus prime-two players at their posture in the condition.
As a complete, coach Chip Kelly’s staff has manufactured 12 presents to 2024 prospective customers, just 4 of which enjoy on the defensive side of the ball. Of those people dozen, 4 are five-stars in the 247Sports activities Composite and 8 are 4-stars. Two-thirds of them are from California, and all but two are from the West area.
UCLA had 21 gamers enter the transfer portal this year, and 13 of them ended up out-of-state recruits coming out of superior university. Even so, the Bruins signed 11 commits in the 2022 cycle and 10 of them had been from California.
The trend in direction of focusing on nearby targets is evidently continuing into 2024, and Brown turned the latest beneficiary of that with the offer you he reeled in around the weekend.
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