ON3 ranks Faizon Brandon 41st nationally and gives him four stars. 247Sports rates the Grimsley quarterback 99 with five stars and lists no national rank for him in our data. ESPN has him at 91, also with five stars and no national rank. PrepRanks scores him 100.00, the top of its scale, and as of Oct. 15, 2026 he holds 14 offers.
That combination is the story of Faizon Brandon, a 2026 quarterback who committed to Tennessee on Aug. 3, 2024. Two of the three rated services call him a five-star. The only national ranking in the data comes from the one that does not. So the claim that he is a top-50 player nationally rests on ON3 alone, while the claim that he is one of the better quarterbacks in the class has support at every service that ranks by position.
How the Services Split
Three services rate Brandon, and they differ on rating, stars, national rank and position rank. Rivals has no rating or ranking for him.
| Service | Rating | Stars | National | Position | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 247Sports | 99 | 5 | Unranked | #3 | #1 |
| ON3 | 97 | 4 | #41 | #5 | #4 |
| ESPN | 91 | 5 | Unranked | None listed | None listed |
| Rivals | None | None | Unranked | Unranked | Unranked |
247Sports is the most favorable of the three. It gives him the highest rating, a fifth star, the top spot among North Carolina prospects and third among quarterbacks. ON3 lists him fifth among quarterbacks and fourth in the state. ESPN publishes a scout grade of 91 and a fifth star but no rank at any level.
The ratings themselves sit eight points apart, from 91 at ESPN to 99 at 247Sports. That is a narrower disagreement than the star counts imply. Two services see a five-star and one sees a four-star, yet the one with four stars rates him higher than ESPN does.
The three services also differ in how much of the profile they publish. 247Sports and ON3 both rank him by position and by state. ESPN gives a grade and a star count and stops there. Rivals gives nothing, which leaves the service average resting on three ratings and the rank comparisons resting on two services at most.
Ratings and stars by service
The ON3 line carries the oddest detail in his profile. Its rating of 97 is six points above ESPN's 91, and ESPN attaches a fifth star to the lower number. Stars and ratings do not translate from one service to another, so reading ON3's four stars as a lower opinion of Brandon than ESPN's five overstates the difference. On rating alone, ON3 is the second most favorable service.
The national rank is where ON3 does separate from the others, and only because the others do not rank him. A rank of No. 41 has nothing to be compared against. If 247Sports or ESPN placed him in the top 40, ON3 would look low. If they placed him lower, ON3 would look high. With neither number published, No. 41 is one service's placement and cannot be called an outlier.
Position rank is the only rank published by more than one service. 247Sports has him third among quarterbacks and ON3 has him fifth, a two-spot gap. That is the closest agreement in the table, and it sits at a level where the quarterback is in the top five of his position either way.
What the 100.00 Is Made Of
The PrepRanks score of 100.00 is a weighted blend of the components below. Two of them are at or near their caps, and the rest are not.
| Component | Score | Max | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Average | 48.31 | 50 | 97% |
| Recruiting Reality (offer count and quality) | 23.00 | 25 | 92% |
| Momentum | 10.00 | 20 | 50% |
| Position Scarcity | 6.67 | 10 | 67% |
| Stability | 4.00 | 5 | 80% |
| Elite Recognition | 10.00 | 10 | 100% |
| TOTAL | 100.00 | 100 | 100.00% |
The rows add up to more than 100, and the total is capped at 100.00. That matters for reading the score. A perfect total does not mean every component is perfect: Momentum is at half of its maximum and Position Scarcity at two-thirds. Brandon reaches the cap because the Service Average (48.31 of 50) and Elite Recognition (10 of 10) carry enough weight to cover the soft spots.
The Service Average reflects the same three ratings in the table above, 99, 97 and 91, and it comes out at 97% of its maximum even with ON3's four stars in the mix. Elite Recognition sits at its 10-point ceiling. A component that is full cannot tell Brandon apart from any other player who also reaches it, so the score has little left to say on that axis.
Offers
Fourteen offers can read as a short list for a player with two five-star grades. The Recruiting Reality component, which scores both the number of offers and who made them, does not treat it that way. Offer Count came out at 14.00 of 15 and Offer Quality at 9.00 of 10, for 23.00 of 25 combined, or 92%. By our measure the offer sheet holds up against the ratings, and it does not drag the total down.
Recruiting Reality is the third-highest percentage in the table, behind Elite Recognition and the Service Average and ahead of Stability, Position Scarcity and Momentum. Set against the national rank, it shows the offer market and ON3 telling roughly the same story: a quarterback who ranks 41st nationally at the one service that publishes a national number, and whose offer list scores 92%.
His Market Value Index is 71 on a 100-point scale. The index quantifies how much demand surrounds a recruit, built from offers, predictions, competition and similar signals. A 71 reads as solid demand and falls short of the top of the scale, which fits an offer list that is strong without being the longest in the class.
Momentum
Momentum scored 10.00 of 20, half its maximum, the lowest percentage in the table. The rank-change fields explain it. ON3 and 247Sports both show no change in his ranking. ESPN shows an increase. One service moving in his favor and two holding still produces a middling score, and a flat line can mean the evaluations settled early.
The ESPN increase is the only movement at any service, and no size is attached to it. ESPN publishes no national or position rank for Brandon, so the increase can only refer to his rating or grade. It is a positive signal and a thin one. The 10 points Momentum leaves unscored are the largest gap in his profile, ahead of the points left in Position Scarcity.
Stability scored 4.00 of 5, and the Commitment Risk level reads LOCKED. Both point the same way. A commitment dated Aug. 3, 2024 gives the rest of the profile a fixed point, and none of the three services shows a downward move for him.
The Position and Size Inputs
Position Scarcity is 6.67 of 10, or 67%. The model reads that as steady demand for quarterbacks in the class and not as an extreme shortage. A quarterback gets credit for the position and still has to separate himself on the other components, which Brandon did through the services and the offers.
The football-specific indices add detail. The Quarterback Premium Index is 95, the model's measure of how much the position and his traits are worth together. The Size Premium Index is 75, which the model reads as solid and short of elite. The Positional Athleticism Transfer score is 70, and the Power Five Regional Advantage score is 65, which reflects that North Carolina is not one of the biggest recruiting states. The regional number is the one that most plausibly explains why the offer list is strong and not enormous, since a player from a larger recruiting state would typically be seen by more programs.
A North Carolina Quarterback in the Rankings
Brandon plays at Grimsley in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the state rank is where the services agree least cleanly. 247Sports has him first among North Carolina prospects. ON3 has him fourth. Both lists include players at every position, so a quarterback sitting first at one and fourth at the other says as much about the state's class as about him.
The two state ranks differ by three spots, against two spots between the position ranks. A mixed state list asks the services to weigh a quarterback against linemen, defenders and receivers, so a wider gap there is not surprising. It also means the state rank is the weakest of the three rank types for comparing one service to another.
North Carolina shows up in the model as well. The Power Five Regional Advantage score is 65, the lowest of the four football indices listed for him, and it is the one that adjusts for where a player lives and not for what he does. It is the most plausible reason his offer list scores 92% and not higher, since programs typically recruit more heavily in states with larger talent pools.
The Tennessee Commitment
Tennessee landed the commitment on Aug. 3, 2024, and the data lists it as signed. The Volunteers play in the SEC at the FBS level. The Commitment Risk level of LOCKED is the formula's way of saying the commitment is not expected to move. Of his 14 offers, Tennessee's is the only one the data shows him accepting.
Tennessee being his destination also matters for how the services read him. A quarterback who committed early and has not wavered gives the services less reason to revise a rating. That fits the flat rank-change fields at ON3 and 247Sports. It does not explain the ESPN increase, which came without a rank to attach it to.
Counterpoint
The strongest argument against reading 100.00 literally is the cap itself. The components add up to more than 100, so the score cannot show whether Brandon is a little above the line or far above it. Another quarterback who also scores 100.00 would look identical on the page, and the gap between them could still be real.
A second argument sits in the ratings. All three scores are close, 91 to 99, and the star counts fall on both sides of the line despite that. A reader who treats ON3's four stars as a verdict on Brandon is reading a rating of 97 as a four-star grade. A reader who treats 247Sports' lack of a national rank as a verdict is reading a blank. Neither inference is supported by the numbers.
The simplest reading is that the services agree on the player and disagree on the labels. Brandon rates between 91 and 99 across three services, ranks third to fifth among quarterbacks at the two that publish a position rank, and is first among North Carolina prospects at 247Sports. The only national rank is No. 41 at ON3, with 14 offers and a signed commitment to Tennessee behind it.