The recruiting marketplace for Greenville DE Franklin Whitley is as scorching as anybody’s within the 2026 class proper now. The previous basketball prospect added one other big-time provide this week from Tennessee. That got here in proper after he wrapped up an official go to to Florida State final weekend.
“That was an incredible expertise. I actually beloved it. They handled me and my household nicely down there. I’ll positively be again,” Whitely mentioned. “Me and one other recruit obtained to hang around with the gamers after the sport. Regardless of the loss, Coach (Mike) Norvell went to dinner, and the D-Line coach went to dinner. They saved the dialog going. They’d smiles on their faces, so I felt like they had been actually comfortable for me to be there.”
That was the primary official go to for Whitley. Official go to quantity two will happen this weekend with South Carolina. Whitley visited USC for the Vanderbilt recreation and wasn’t planning to return till the Alabama recreation on October twenty fifth. However the recruiting efforts of Shane Beamer, Sterling Lucas and Travian Robertson satisfied him to not solely go to for that recreation, however to take his official go to this weekend.
“Them being constant, contacting me daily, actually striving for me,” Whitley mentioned about why this weekend for the official go to. “I appreciated the dedication they’ve had, so I felt prefer it was solely proper to return go to them this weekend. I simply need to see extra of how this system is run. That’s a very powerful factor to me, how they develop gamers. I need to communicate to gamers, ask them about this system and the way they really feel.”
Whitley mentioned he talked with your entire USC defensive employees and Beamer on Wednesday. He additionally talked to Lucas and a few recruiting workplace personnel on Wednesday night time.
Whitley additionally mentioned he talked earlier within the week with Clemson defensive ends coach Chris Rumph and a few people from the recruiting workplace, and he has set a mid-week official go to with the Tigers for November nineteenth. He’ll comply with that official go to with one to Florida that weekend. He additionally has an official go to set with Alabama for November fifteenth.
The one different recreation go to Whitley has scheduled for now could be the Vanderbilt at Tennessee recreation on November twenty ninth.
Whitley additionally has presents from Georgia, Auburn, Virginia Tech and West Virginia. He mentioned he has not but pinpointed a favourite.
