Pittsburgh offers 2024 4-star LB Qua Birdsong
Lagrange (Ga.) Troup County four-star linebacker Qua Birdsong received an offer from Pittsburgh on Sunday night. He announced the news over social media.
Birdsong is the No. 157 overall prospect and No. 17 linebacker in the 2024 cycle, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He is also the No. 24 player in Georgia.
On3 rates Birdsong higher than other recruiting services, according to the Industry Comparison. Per the 2024 On300, he is the No. 154 overall prospect and No. 15 linebacker in the country.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound defender holds 12 offers. According to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine, Georgia Tech has a commanding lead for his commitment at 81%.
RPM was released to the public in December. The On3 engineering group teamed up with Spiny.ai to create the industry’s first algorithm and machine learning-based product to predict where athletes will attend college.
It factors in machine learning, social sentiment, visits and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.
The Panthers’ 2024 recruiting class contains three players. They are Melbourne (Fla.) Cocoa four-star wide receiver DayDay Farmer, Philadelphia Imhotep Institute three-star defensive lineman Jahsear Whittington and York (Penn.) Central York running back Juelz Goff.
Birdsong has an On3 NIL Valuation of $12.3K. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.