PALM BEACH COUNTY – In the third iteration of Palm Beach County’s player rankings for the Class of 2026, we needed to make an important adjustment.
The reason for this is because we are now going on shift our focus to players who have pledged their verbal commitments to Power 4 and Group of 5 colleges. While we will always place on-field production above all else, those verbal commits are critical in these days.
Message to the Class of 2026: If you have offers, make sure you verbally commit to a school as soon as possible or risk having those offers taken from you by colleges. This can literally happen at any time, so do not wait much longer.
With that said, we have spent a lot of time watching Hudl film, looked over and double-checked statistics throughout the ranked players’ junior season, pored over the quality and quantity of college scholarship offers they received, and heeded to advice from at least one highly credible outside source.
DISCLAIMER: We will never reveal any of our sources who lead, guide, and direct us with our player rankings or anything else in relation to any content we release to the public. This is a standard journalistic practice that must always be strictly followed for confidentiality and credibility purposes.
TOP 25: CLASS OF 2026
1. RB Javian Mallory (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 1]
Verbal commit to Miami
2. RB Phoenix Donghia (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 2]
Offers: North Carolina, Western Kentucky, Marshall, Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State, Charlotte, etc. – 9 total
Plan to verbally commit: Probably by the end of May
3. ATH Jyron Hughley (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 3]
Verbal commit to West Virginia
4. DL Xavier Reid (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 4]
Verbal commit to Liberty
5. DB Jaydin Broadnax (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 5]
Verbal commit to Louisville
6. ATH Dylan Faison (St. Andrew’s) [Previous: 6]
Verbal commit to Notre Dame
7. LB Antoine Sharp (Palm Beach Central) [Previous: 7]
Verbal commit to UCF
8. LB Adam Balogoun-Ali (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 8]
Offers: Miami, Florida, Florida State, Penn State, etc. – 34 total
Final 8: Miami, Florida State, Penn State, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Auburn, Missouri, Kentucky
Plan to verbally commit: TBA
9. LB Cameron Dwyer (Palm Beach Central) [Previous: 9]
Verbal commit to West Virginia
10. WR Mark Hanniford (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 12]
Verbal commit to Western Kentucky
11. DL Cormarion Embry (Pahokee) [Previous: New]
Verbal commit to Western Kentucky
12. ATH Demetrius Geathers (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 15]
Verbal commit to USF
13. QB Chance Routson (Palm Beach Central) [Previous: 10]
Offers: Georgia State, FAU, FIU, UMass, UConn
14. OL Javarii Luckas (Glades Central) [Previous: 11]
Offers: Miami, Florida, Penn State, FIU, FAU, etc. – 8 total
15. RB Armaud Stinfort (Glades Central) [Previous: 12]
Offers: None at this time
16. QB Caleb Butler (Dr. Joaquin Garcia) [Previous: 13]
Offers: FIU, Western Kentucky
17. DE Grant Edmond (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 14]
Offers: Liberty, Western Kentucky
18. EDGE Jvon Hatcher (Delray Beach Atlantic) [Previous: 16]
Offers: Wake Forest, Memphis, Eastern Michigan, Western Kentucky, West Georgia, etc. – 8 total
19. OL Dequan Bradley (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 17]
Offer: Akron
20. DE Sauvernson Paul (Glades Central) [Previous: 18]
Offers: Western Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky
21. EDGE Antonio Simpson (Pahokee) [Previous: 19]
Offers: None at this time
22. Gary Mann (Inlet Grove) [Previous: 20]
Offers: Western Kentucky, Eastern Michigan
23. WR Zamarii Sanders (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 21]
Offers: Miami, Texas A&M, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Kentucky, etc. – 15 total
24. OL Kerby Vital Jr. (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 22]
Offers: FAU, Akron, Liberty, Western Kentucky
25. OL Decarlo Alvarez (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 23]
Offer: Bowling Green
CLOSEST TO 25: CLASS OF 2026
•ATH Cayden Alula (Jupiter Christian)
Offers: Navy, Air Force, Colgate, Princeton, Cornell, etc. – 8 total
•EDGE Zayvion Hayes (Delray Beach Atlantic)
Offers: Bowling Green, Western Kentucky
ATH KJ Larsen (Jupiter) [Previous: New]
Offers: None at this time
OL/DL Cedric Mickens (Palm Beach Central)
Offers: Akron, Charlotte, The Citadel
•RB Randolph “RJ” Wilkerson (Jupiter Christian)
Offers: None at this time
NEXT RANKINGS UPDATE: Friday, May 30
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