Spearman (Texas) four-star athlete Brenen Thompson saw his recruitment explode this spring. After Illinois State gave the top class of 2022 recruit his first offer on March 15, he began to rack up offers from major Power Five programs – including Texas, Texas A&M, Alabama, Auburn, Oklahoma and Michigan – over the next month.
Thompson, the nation’s top-ranked athlete in his class according to ESPN, now holds nearly 30 total offers and has been in contact with a lot of those programs since college coaches could start reaching out directly to junior high school prospects on Sept. 1.