{"id":42292,"date":"2025-07-06T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42292\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:41:08","slug":"5-star-wr-commits-to-syracuse-over-michigan-other-elite-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42292\/","title":{"rendered":"5-star WR commits to Syracuse over Michigan, other elite schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"rFyuMz\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maizenbrew.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan Wolverines<\/a> lost out on an elite player on Saturday night, as 2026 wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/calvin-russell-46134887\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Russell<\/a> announced his commitment to Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gHBaW8\">A Top-50 overall talent in the 2026 class, Russell is listed at 6-foot-5 and 195 pounds. The Miami, Florida native had offers from the best of the best in college football, but decided to take official visits to LSU, Miami, Florida State, Oregon and Michigan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LVVAqa\">But despite all that, he decided to commit to a head coach that he had a strong relationship with in Syracuse head man Fran Brown. He even called out Brown in his announcement tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Five-Star WR Calvin Russell has Committed to Syracuse, he tells me for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rivals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@rivals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20195 200 WR chose the Orange over Michigan, Florida State, &amp; Oregon<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the highest-ranked recruit to commit to Syracuse in the past 20 years<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFRAN BROWN!!!\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CicMLyvwqr\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/CicMLyvwqr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P2QPwtqCKz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/P2QPwtqCKz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayesfawcett3\/status\/1941678122744566094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 6, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"71h0PH\">Russell would\u2019ve been an incredible addition to Michigan\u2019s 2026 class, but the Wolverines still have four-stars Zion Robinson and Travis Johnson, as well as three-star Jaylen Pile. With this three-man class locked in, the Wolverines are very likely done with recruiting wide receivers in this recruiting cycle.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan Wolverines lost out on an elite player on Saturday night, as 2026 wide receiver Calvin Russell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[3254,6653,30786,1318,204,3252,214,6654,6655,3253,1317,1315,1316,6291,2031,3060,62,581,4695,447,67,132,68,30787],"class_list":{"0":"post-42292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-brew","9":"tag-commits","10":"tag-elite","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-maize","14":"tag-michigan","15":"tag-michigan-football-recruiting","16":"tag-michigan-football-recruiting-news","17":"tag-n","18":"tag-ncaa","19":"tag-ncaa-football","20":"tag-ncaafootball","21":"tag-other","22":"tag-over","23":"tag-schools","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-star","26":"tag-syracuse","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-wr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114803984532396903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}