{"id":235725,"date":"2025-07-25T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/235725\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:15:23","slug":"top-alabama-2026-football-commit-officially-shuts-down-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/235725\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Alabama 2026 football commit officially shuts down recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a social media post Thursday night, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama Crimson Tide&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama Crimson Tide&#8217;s<\/a> top 2026 football commits has officially shut down their recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>That prospect is highly-touted linebacker Xavier Griffin, who made the announcement Thursday night via a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A prospect who committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/3478\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama<\/a> back in June, Griffin is currently considered as the nation&#8217;s No. 17 prospect in the 2026 recruiting class, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/xavier-griffin-46142592\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:247Sports Composite rankings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">247Sports Composite rankings<\/a>, as well as the No. 2 linebacker nationally. Griffin is also considered as a five-star prospect, as well as the No. 2 player in the state of Georgia, attending Gainesville High School.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s 2026 recruiting class currently ranks No. 5 nationally, per <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/alabama\/season\/2026-football\/commits\/?rankings=composite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:247Sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">247Sports<\/a>, holding 20 total commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rolltidewire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@RollTideWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@RollTideWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RollTideWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/1284\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0news, notes and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Roll Tide Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/crimson-tide\/recruiting\/2025\/07\/25\/alabama-football-recruiting-xavier-griffin-recruitment-closed\/85364300007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama football commit Xavier Griffin shuts down recruitment;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama football commit Xavier Griffin shuts down recruitment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a social media post Thursday night, one of the Alabama Crimson Tide&#8217;s top 2026 football commits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[9232,52,930,7,2877,48043],"class_list":{"0":"post-235725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-247sports-composite-rankings","9":"tag-alabama","10":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-social-media","13":"tag-xavier-griffin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114915477191647884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235725","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=235725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}