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College football's early signing period creates recruiting pressure

Weaver is off to Lexington after high school Louisville Courier Journal

JJ Weaver’s past week as a football recruit was, in a word, “crazy.”

A 6-foot-6 defensive end at Louisville’s Moore Traditional School and a coveted four-star prospect in the current class, Moore had committed to Kentucky. He did not decommit from Kentucky, nor did he even imply that he might.

But he did visit Louisville recently, fulfilling a promise to athletic director Vince Tyra to meet the Cardinals’ new coach Scott Satterfield. And Weaver followed that visit by saying he wanted to wait until February’s late period to sign a binding letter of intent, rather than doing so this week during college football’s recently implemented early signing period.