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Football Schedule

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See Also
Rivals.com - Four-star OT Jaelyne Matthews commits to Rutgers as 'hometown hero'From Times Square to the Jersey Shore: Inside Rutgers' big recruiting weekend CanesCounty - By The Numbers: Side-By-Side Comparison - Miami Vs. Rutgers Wisconsin's class of 2025 enters Rivals' top-10 ranking with Mason Posa commitment
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Crystal Ball Predictions

- Isaiah Deloatch
- LB / 6-1 / 210
- 0.8719
- Predicted by: Bobby Deren
- 7 High
- Isaiah Deloatch
- LB / 6-1 / 210
- 0.8719
- Predicted by: Brian Dohn
- 6 Med
- Talibi Kaba
- ATH / 6-3 / 195
- 0.8833
- Predicted by: Brian Dohn
- 6 Med
- Talibi Kaba
- ATH / 6-3 / 195
- 0.8833
- Predicted by: Steve Wiltfong
- 6 Med

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Team News

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RB John Forster in decision mode with pair of Big Ten finalists

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Brian Dohn 20 hours ago

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Rutgers hosting another O-lineman this weekend in Jayden Mann

FB Recruiting Bobby Deren 20 hours ago

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Rutgers means a lot for NJ No.5-ranked prospect Kai Pritchard

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Chris Tsakonas 21 hours ago

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An insider's take on why Rutgers commit Chase Linton is now a four-star

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Chris Tsakonas Jun 13, 10:02 AM

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Ask The Staff Thursday Edition

College Football Bobby Deren Jun 13, 9:32 AM

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Rutgers Basketball: Competition for playing time set to begin

BK Recruiting Bobby Deren Jun 13, 12:38 AM

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Rutgers adds another Georgia prospect to weekend official visitor list

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Bobby Deren Jun 12, 5:08 PM

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Culture inside Rutgers impresses DL Yvan Kemajou during official visit

FB Recruiting VIP Premium Brian Dohn Jun 12, 1:07 PM

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Ace Bailey arrives at Rutgers

BK Recruiting Bobby Deren Jun 12, 11:48 AM

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Scarlet Nation Podcast: Rutgers Football Recruiting cracks Top 10

FB Recruiting Bobby Deren Jun 12, 10:49 AM

Top Targets

Damien Shanklin
Edge / 6-4 / 230 0.9475
- 50%
- 50%
Justin Hill
Edge / 6-3 / 220 0.9616
Owen Strebig
OT / 6-8 / 295 0.9306

Committed - 2/8/2024
Kamren Flowers
WR / 5-11 / 170 0.8928

2025 Recruiting Rankings

The Formula
where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R_n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100.
Explanation
In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
Each recruit is weighted in the rankings according to a Gaussian distribution formula (a bell curve), where a team's best recruit is worth the most points. You can think of a team's point score as being the sum of ratings of all the team's commits where the best recruit is worth 100% of his rating value, the second best recruit is worth nearly 100% of his rating value, down to the last recruit who is worth a small fraction of his rating value. This formula ensures that all commits contribute at least some value to the team's score without heavily rewarding teams that have several more commitments than others.
Readers familiar with the Gaussian distribution formula will note that we use a varying value for σ based on the standard deviation for the total number of commits between schools for the given sport. This standard deviation creates a bell curve with an inflection point near the average number of players recruited per team.
Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking.