VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — One of many final uncommitted offensive lineman within the prime 100 spent July going over professionals and cons about his three finalists and a call was reached. With Georgia, Maryland and South Carolina as his finalists, Salem Excessive’s Jaylen Gilchrist will announce his school selection Saturday at 4 p.m. on the 247Sports YouTube channel.
“To me, it was training, relationships with coaches, how I can be developed and the realness, the genuineness, from wherever or whomever,” the 6-foot-4 1/2, 295-pound Gilchrist mentioned. “The best way I do issues, I attempt to make it so it exhibits itself to me. I sit again and observe. I say what must be mentioned, however I’m (often) sitting again and watching.”
Gilchrist is the No. 3 inside offensive lineman prospect and No. 91 participant within the 2025 class. He’s the highest uncommitted inside offensive lineman within the nation. He has been on the recruiting stage since his freshman yr of highschool, and his supply listing is within the dozens.
Within the case of all three finalists, a suggestion got here greater than two years in the past. The Gamecocks and Terps every provided Might 4, 2022.
He made an official go to to South Carolina throughout the first weekend of June.
“With South Carolina, it was their genuineness from everyone irrespective of who it was,” he mentioned. “It may have been a coach, may have been a workers (member), it may have been an area, it was hospitality and love from each certainly one of them.”
Of the finalists, Georgia was the primary to supply Gilchrist. It did so April 26, 2022. He made unofficial visits to the Athens, Georgia, campus and he was there for an official go to June 14-16.
“I will be sincere, there’s not lots that needs to be mentioned about Georgia,” Gilchrist mentioned. “It speaks for itself. Again-to-back champs. You do not actually must say a lot. It speaks for itself.”
He finishes his officers with a June 21-23 journey to Maryland.
“I can be sincere, the identical factor as South Carolina was with Maryland,” Gilchrist mentioned. “It actually would not matter who it’s, I at all times acquired that feeling of, ‘That is house.’ That is the place I may actually see myself for the following three or 4 years.”
