The prodigy directory: list of players with offers before high school

Offering players before they enter high school is not completely unheard of. More players than ever before can boast scholarship offers before ninth grade. Here's the current rundown.

By Stephen Spiewak

Jul 27, 2012 at 1:42 pm ET • 1 min read

Earlier this summer, MaxPreps documented the trend of early recruiting and colleges wooing recruits who have yet to enter high school.

In the past few weeks, the trend has accelerated.

Offering players before they enter high school is not completely unheard of. Remember when Wake Forest offered Chris Leak as an eighth grader? Or when seventh-grade quarterback David Sills committed to USC?

More players than ever before can boast scholarship offers before ninth grade. Here's the current rundown.

Class of 2016

Jarrett Guarantano, QB, Bergen Catholic (Oradell, N.J.) Offers: Rutgers
Jordan Fuller, QB/ATH, Northern Valley (Old Tappan, N.J.) Offers: Rutgers
Gabe Angel, RB/LB, Wilson Central (Lebanon, Tenn.) Offers: Mississippi State
Robert Washington, RB, SouthLake Christian Academy (Huntersville, N.C.) Offers: Ole Miss
Rashan Gary, OL, Scotch Plains-Fanwood (Scotch Plains, N.J.) Offers: Rutgers
Rahshaun Smith, DL, Calvert Hall (Baltimore, Md.) Offers: Boston College, Maryland
Shane Simmons, DL, DeMatha (Hyattsville, Md.) Offers: Virginia
Morgan Scroggins, DB, Calvert Hall (Baltimore, Md.) Offers: Youngstown State

Class of 2017