4-star wide receiver DJ Allen backs off TCU commitment
Gladewater (Texas) wide receiver DJ Allen has decommitted from TCU and will reopen his recruitment, he announced Thursday.
Allen is the fourth Horned Frogs 2022 commit to publicly back off their pledge to TCU following the abrupt resignation of head coach Gary Patterson on Oct. 31. He joins wide receiver Matthew Golden, defensive lineman Trevon McAlpine, and safety Ja’Dais Richard. Allen announced the day after Patterson’s resignation that he was reopening his recruitment but had yet to actually decommit. He made it official on Thursday.
The 5-foot-11, 189-pound Allen is the No. 173 prospect in the 2022 class, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. The industry as a whole rates him as the No. 26 wide receiver in the cycle, while On3 is slightly higher, pegging him as the No. 23 player at his position.
DJ Allen is a versatile athlete
Allen plays four different sports – football, basketball, baseball and track. Allen has a 100-meter dash time of 10.82 seconds. In football, he was the Class 3A District 6 most valuable player as a junior. He was a first-team all-district selection as a sophomore.
As a junior in 2020, Allen notched 1,316 yards receiving and 17 touchdown catches in 2020. He also added 125 rushing yards and two scores on the ground.
Allen has also made an impression on On3 Director of Scouting and Rankings Charles Power.
“The two things that immediately jump out about DJ Allen are his production and athleticism,” Power said over the summer. “He is dangerous as a vertical threat and shows the ability to win in contested situations. The ball skills check out in the camp setting as well. Allen’s on-field speed is validated on the track, where he ran the 100 meters in 10.82 seconds this spring. He’s not a smaller receiver either – measuring 5-foot-11, 190 pounds this spring.”
TCU, which at one point had the No. 25 recruiting class in the On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings, has dropped to No. 44 nationally after the string of decommitments.