Michigan's 47 Commits: 19 States, 10.9% From Home

Savion Hiter Carter Meadows Malakai Lee

Class size and geography

Michigan has 47 football commits across the 2026, 2027 and 2028 classes as of Oct. 15, 2026, drawn from 19 states. Five are from Michigan, and PrepRanks puts home-state loyalty at 10.9%. The 2026 class accounts for 25 commits, 2027 for 21 and 2028 for one.

The Wolverines have one five-star and 17 four-stars. Another 26 commits are three-stars and three are two-stars, so more than half the list sits below four stars. The average PrepRanks score is 74.6, and the class score is 512.

The top of the list is spread across the map. The six highest scores come from six places: Virginia, DC, Missouri, Michigan, Hawaii and Illinois. Reach is the class's defining trait, and the sections below break it down by score, state, position and class year.

The top of the class

Savion Hiter, a running back from Louisa County in Virginia, is the only five-star and scores 98.92. That is more than eight points above the next commit. Carter Meadows, an edge rusher from Gonzaga in Washington, DC, scores 90.58 and carries four stars. Titan Davis, a defensive lineman from De Smet in Missouri, is at 90.47.

Ranks four through six sit just below them. Jakari Lipsey, an offensive tackle from Loy Norrix in Michigan, scores 89.10, and Malakai Lee, an offensive tackle from Kamehameha Secondary in Honolulu, scores 89.07, a gap of a few hundredths of a point. Quentin Burrell, a receiver from Mount Carmel in Illinois, is at 88.06. Lipsey and Burrell are both in the 2027 class.

Ranks two through six cover about two and a half points. Then the scores fall: the seventh-ranked commit, Tavares Harrington, a Mount Carmel safety, is at 81.02, seven points under Burrell. Below Harrington, the top-15 scores step down from 80.27 to 76.75 over eight more names.

Where the commits come from

Texas sends the most commits with eight, and one of them reaches the top 15: defensive lineman Alister Vallejo of Liberty Hill at 79.42. Illinois sends four and has three in the top 15, with Burrell, Harrington and McHale Blade, an edge rusher from Simeon, at 77.26. Michigan sends five and has two: Lipsey and Recarder Kitchen, an edge rusher from Muskegon, at 80.27.

Two of Michigan's five in-state commits sit in the top 15, against 15 of 47 for the full list. Lipsey ranks fourth in the class and Kitchen eighth. Both are 2027 commits, and Lipsey's score is higher than Lee's from Hawaii by three hundredths of a point.

California has four commits, and Virginia, DC, Utah, Mississippi and Ohio have three each. Utah's three include quarterback Kamden Lopati of West, at 80.05, and Ohio's include cornerback Monsanna Torbert of Princeton, at 76.75. Indiana has two.

No high school sends more than two. Mount Carmel in Chicago, Saline in Michigan and St. John's College in Washington, DC each have two, and seven other schools on the feeder list have one. Mount Carmel's pair, Burrell and Harrington, rank sixth and seventh in the class. Gonzaga and De Smet each send one, Meadows and Davis.

Linebackers and interior linemen have no top-15 scores

Edge rusher and linebacker lead the position table with six commits each. Offensive tackle has five, and receiver, safety and cornerback have four. Quarterback, running back, tight end, defensive line and interior offensive line have three apiece. Two kickers and one athlete complete the 47. Defensive positions account for 23 of them and offensive positions for 21.

The top 15 is not spread the same way. Edge rusher has three of its six in the top 15 (Meadows, Kitchen and Blade), and offensive tackle has three of five (Lipsey, Lee and Marky Walbridge of St. Sebastian's School, at 77.57). Defensive line has two of three, Davis and Vallejo. Linebacker has six commits and none in the top 15, and interior offensive line has three and none.

The skill positions each place one or two. Lopati is the only quarterback in the top 15, and he is a 2027 commit. Running back has Hiter and Tyson Robinson of Brandon in Mississippi, at 79.07. Tight end has Colt Lumpris of The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, at 78.33. Cornerback has Torbert and safety has Harrington, one each.

Counterpoint

Only one commit is a five-star, and 26 are three-stars, the largest group in the star table. That reads as a class built on depth with one headline name. Against that, all 15 of the highest scores belong to four-stars or better, the 15th is 76.75, and three more four-stars score below that mark. Eighteen of the 47 commits are four-stars or better.

The position table shows no empty group among the starters. Cornerback has four commits, linebacker has six and offensive tackle has five. Offensive tackle and interior offensive line together have eight, and cornerback and safety together have eight. The class leans toward the defense, with 23 defensive commits to 21 on offense, plus two kickers and one athlete.

The weakness is the middle. The class score of 512 reflects 47 commits, so it measures volume as well as quality, and the 74.6 average falls under the 15th-best score. The top 15 carries the class, and the rest of the commits pull the average down.

The 2027 commits hold eight of the top 15

The 21 commits in the 2027 class account for eight of the top 15 scores: Lipsey, Burrell, Harrington, Kitchen, Lopati, Robinson, Lumpris and Torbert. The 25 commits from 2026 account for seven: Hiter, Meadows, Davis, Lee, Vallejo, Walbridge and Blade. Both Michigan natives in the top 15 are 2027 commits, and so are both Mount Carmel players.

The 2027 group is also where several positions get their top-15 entry. Lopati is the lone quarterback, Robinson is one of two running backs, Lumpris is the lone tight end, and Torbert is the lone cornerback. Harrington is the lone safety. The 2026 group supplies the five-star, the defensive linemen and the edge rusher Blade.

The one 2028 commit does not appear in the top 15.