2024 4-star WR Brandon Heyward releases top eight schools
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) four-star wide receiver Brandon Heyward announced his top eight schools on Wednesday. The list includes Boston College, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Michigan State, Mississippi State, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
Heyward is the No. 301 overall prospect and No. 48 wide receiver 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. 6 player in Tennessee.
The 5-foot-11, 170-pound wideout will be in Knoxville for an unofficial visit this weekend. He has also taken unofficial visits to Louisville (June 17) and Arkansas (April 16).
Heyward attended a camp at Kentucky this summer. He expressed high praise of the Wildcats to Zack Geoghegan of KSR.
“I ain’t never been to Kentucky but when I was there, just the practice environment when I went in there and I seen everybody in there working out, pushing each other and stuff like that, I could see that it was a family and everybody was buying in to being a great team,” Heyward told Geoghegan. “That’s an important thing for me.”
The four-star also provided Geoghegan with some insight on his recruitment.
“I’m looking for schools that are maybe five, six hours away,” Heyward said. “Kentucky they’re like three, four and that’s a great range for me to go see my family. My family can come see me. That’s what really motivated me to come check them out and see if I liked it or not… I could see the team was a family.”
Heyward has an On3 NIL Valuation of $13.6K. The On3 NIL Valuation is an index that looks to set the standard market value for both high school and college-level athletes. 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.