{"id":861734,"date":"2026-04-08T22:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861734\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:48:24","slug":"3-star-2028-edge-simote-tupou-decommits-from-arizona-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861734\/","title":{"rendered":"3-star 2028 edge Simote Tupou decommits from Arizona Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona\u2019s 2028 recruiting class is back to a single commit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Tupou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdesertswarm.com\/football\/2025\/7\/10\/24465372\/arizona-wildcats-football-simote-tupou-commitment-las-vegas-edge-2028-recruiting-joe-salavea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had committed to Arizona last July<\/a>, picking the Wildcats over Cal, Colorado State, Hawaii, SMU and UNLV when he was attended a high school in Henderson, Nev., but is now slated to play for St. John Bosco in Bellflower, Calif., for his junior year. Tupou is currently ranked No. 201 nationally in the 2028 class by 247Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona has two commitments in the 2027 class\u20143-star in-state wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdesertswarm.com\/football\/73151\/arizona-wildcats-football-recruiting-commitment-trey-smith-receiver-2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Smith<\/a> and 3-star Texas athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdesertswarm.com\/football\/71619\/arizona-wildcats-football-recruiting-commitment-jalani-culpepper-safety-texas-2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalani Culpepper<\/a>\u2014in addition to 2028 pledge Calloway. More commitments for 2027 are expected later this spring and into the summer as unofficial and official visits dominate the recruiting schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona\u2019s 2028 recruiting class is back to a single commit. The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Tupou had committed to Arizona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52664,99398,7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-861734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-arizona-football","9":"tag-arizona-recruiting","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116371528573664086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861734","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=861734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}