Spring Top 40: Class of 2026 – Palm Beach County

PALM BEACH COUNTY – In the fourth iteration of Palm Beach County’s player rankings for the Class of 2026, we made several important adjustments.

We have three new Top 10 entries. One makes a Top 10 return, while the other two makes their debut landings. And from the 11-20 spots, we also have three new entries there.

This means that inside the Top 20, we have a whopping six new entries.

On another note, we expanded the rankings this time from 25 to 40 players. We also have a Close to 40 list, which consists of 10 players that we strongly considered for the Top 40.

The focus was mainly on players committing to colleges the last time we released the rankings back in April. While it is still a focal point, the emphasis was on two other things:

•Spring game performance 

•Film study and evaluation of players

We will always place on-field production above all else. But now in addition to this, we will continue to promote that early 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 seasons and for their spring games, 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.

SPRING TOP 40

1. RB Javian Mallory (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 1]

Verbal commit to Miami

2. RB Phoenix Donghia (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 2]

Verbal commit to James Madison

3. ATH Dylan Faison (St. Andrew’s) [Previous: 6] 

Verbal commit to Notre Dame

4. DL Xavier Reid (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 4]

Verbal commit to Liberty

5. DB Jaydin Broadnax (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 5]

Offers: Florida, Texas, Syracuse, etc. – 41 total

6. QB Jyron Hughley (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 3] 

Verbal commit to West Virginia

7. WR James Jones (Delray Beach Atlantic) [Previous: Not Ranked]

Offers: UCLA, Boston College, Western Kentucky, etc. – 13 total

8. DL Cormarion Embry (Pahokee) [Previous: 11]

Verbal commit to Western Kentucky

9. LB Cameron Dwyer (Palm Beach Central) [Previous: 9]

Verbal commit to West Virginia

10. DB Tyrelle Owens (Delray Beach Atlantic) [Previous: New]

Offers: FAU, Western Kentucky, Eastern Michigan, etc. – 6 total

11. LB Adam Balogoun-Ali (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 8]

Offers: Miami, Florida State, North Carolina, etc. – 35 total 

Final 5: North Carolina, Oklahoma, Auburn, Missouri, Kentucky

Plan to verbally commit: Sometime in July

12. WR Mark Hanniford (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 10]

Offers: Western Michigan, Toledo, West Georgia, etc. – 18 total

13. LB Antoine Sharp (Palm Beach Central) [Previous: 7]

Verbal commit to West Virginia; flipped from UCF

14. EDGE J’Von Hatcher (Delray Beach Atlantic) [Previous: 18]

Offers: Wake Forest, Eastern Michigan, FAU, etc. – 13 total

15. CB Horace Glenn (Delray Beach Atlantic) [Previous: New]

Offers: Western Michigan, USF, FAU, etc. – 11 total

16. ATH Cayden Alula (Jupiter Christian) [Previous: New]

Verbal commit to Navy

17. WR Raoul Brown (Royal Palm Beach) [Previous: New]

Offers: Western Kentucky, Webber

18. ATH Demetrius Geathers (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 12]

Verbal commit to USF

19. QB Chance Routson (Palm Beach Central) [Previous: 13]

Offers: UConn, FAU, FIU, etc. – 8 total

20. OL Javarii Luckas (Glades Central) [Previous: 14]

Verbal commit to Florida

21. RB Ar’Maud Stinfort (Glades Central) [Previous: 15]

Offer: West Virginia State

22. QB Caleb Butler (Dr. Joaquin Garcia) [Previous: 16]

Offers: FIU, Western Kentucky

23. ATH Gary Mann (Glades Central) [Previous: 22]

Offers: Eastern Michigan, Western Kentucky, West Virginia State

24. WR Kemari Walcott (Delray Beach Atlantic) [Previous: Not Ranked]

Offer: Bethune-Cookman

25. EDGE Grant Edmond (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 17]

Offers: Western Kentucky, Liberty, West Virginia State, UNC Pembroke

26. OL Dequan Bradley (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 19]

Offers: Bowling Green, Akron, West Virginia State, etc. – 5 total

27. EDGE Sauvernson Paul (Glades Central) [Previous: 20]

Offers: Western Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia State, etc. – 5 total

28. LB Antonio Simpson (Pahokee) [Previous: 21]

Offers: West Virginia State, Wofford

29. EDGE Zayvion Hayes (Delray Beach Atlantic) [Previous: New]

Offers: Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Missouri State, West Virginia State

30. WR Zamarii Sanders (Cardinal Newman) [Previous: 23]

Offers: Miami, Texas A&M, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Kentucky, etc. – 15 total

31. OL Kerby Vital Jr. (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 24]

Offers: Western Kentucky, Liberty, FAU, etc. – 8 total

32. OL Decarlo Alvarez (West Boca Raton) [Previous: 25]

Offers: Bowling Green, Keiser

33. DL Cedric Mickens Jr. (Palm Beach Central) [Previous: New]

Offers: Akron, The Citadel, West Virginia State, etc. – 7 total

34. ATH Samuel Arnold (Pahokee) [Previous: Not Ranked]

Verbal commit to Presbyterian

35. ATH KJ Larsen (Jupiter) [Previous: Not Ranked]

Offers: West Virginia State, Chowan

36. RB Randolph Wilkerson Jr. (Jupiter Christian) [Previous: New]

Offers: Warner, Chowan

37. WR Kyle Andrews (West Boca Raton) [Previous: New]

Offers: FAU, Liberty, Bowling Green, etc. – 6 total

38. ATH Tayegan Briskey (West Boca Raton) [Previous: New]

Verbal commit to Dartmouth

39. DB Davontey Oliver (Somerset Academy Canyons) [Previous: New]

Verbal commit to Eastern Michigan

40. QB Andrew Embick (Jupiter) [Previous: New]

Offers: St. Thomas, Denison, Hampden-Sydney

CLOSE TO 40

•WR Rory Butler (Palm Beach Gardens)

Offers: Western Kentucky, Rhode Island, Wofford

•LB David Harmon (Palm Beach Central)

Offers: Wofford, West Virginia State, Warner, Webber

•ATH Rhys Hall (Jupiter)

Offer: Hampden-Sydney

•LB Samuel Louidort (Cardinal Newman)

Offers: Wake Forest, Western Kentucky, Eastern Michigan, etc. – 5 total

•ATH Tiago Mendes (Palm Beach Central)

Offers: Western Kentucky, Marshall, The Citadel, etc. – 7 total

•WR Leslie Mosley (Cardinal Newman)

Offers: Western Kentucky, Liberty, West Virginia State, etc. – 6 total

•WR Ayden Passley (Jupiter)

Offers: Bethune-Cookman, Brown, Rhode Island, Davidson

•WR Rochener Ezekiel Seraphin III (Somerset Academy Canyons)

Offers: None at this time

•WR Isaiah Turner (Boynton Beach)

Offers: None at this time

•OL Iggy Zulaica (Cardinal Newman)

Offers: Keiser, Chowan, etc. – 3 total

NEXT RANKINGS UPDATE: Monday, June 30

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