{"id":199191,"date":"2025-07-11T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/199191\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:21:11","slug":"clemson-falls-out-of-top-10-in-espn-team-recruiting-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/199191\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson falls out of Top 10 in ESPN team recruiting rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clemson’s 2026 class momentum took a hit recently with regional 5-star target Bryce Perry-Wright<\/a> opting for the Lone Star State and Texas A&M over the Tigers.<\/p>\n

The now 20-man Clemson class has been as high as No. 2 in the team recruiting rankings, but combined with some misses and other teams’ hits, Clemson slipped seven spots to No. 13 in ESPN’s latest update.<\/a><\/p>\n

Big movers up in this ranking include Oregon (+14 to No. 9) and LSU (+10 to No. 10).<\/p>\n

USC remains the top class with 18 ESPN 300 pledges. Clemson has 11.<\/p>\n

Miami paces the ACC, at No. 8, followed by Florida State (12), and the Tigers are joined in the ranking by UNC (16), SMU (20), Syracuse (23) and Louisville (25).<\/p>\n

Clemson is No. 11 in the 247Sports Team Composite<\/a> and the On3 industry average.<\/a><\/p>\n

Those two rankings agree on a Top 5 of USC, Georgia, Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Alabama. ESPN just flips Notre Dame to No. 3 and Texas A&M to No. 4. 5-star athlete Brandon Arrington is tabbed as the top Aggies defensive prospect.<\/p>\n

Clemson is highest with Rivals.com and a No. 7 spot, also at seventh-best in average rating per recruit (3.75).<\/p>\n

Four-star safety Blake Stewart<\/a> is set to announce a commitment on Sunday, and Stewart has multiple projections to Clemson currently. As it stands, a Stewart pledge would boost the Tigers back into the Top 10 for 247Sports.<\/p>\n

Clemson in 2026 recruiting rankings<\/p>\n

Rivals: 7
247Sports Composite: 11
On3: 11
247Sports: 12
ESPN: 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clemson’s 2026 class momentum took a hit recently with regional 5-star target Bryce Perry-Wright opting for the Lone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[42671,25606,6778,843,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-199191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-blake-stewart","9":"tag-bryce-perry-wright","10":"tag-clemson-football-2025","11":"tag-clemson-tigers","12":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114835520494340102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}