Bennett Warren is sure to be one of the most physically impressive prospects at the 2024 All-American Bowl. The four-star offensive tackle from Sugar Land (Texas) Fort Bend Christian Academy is a towering figure, and he should catch some eyes once he takes the field.

At 6-foot-7.5, 330 pounds, Warren is ranked as the No. 8 offensive tackle in the nation and No. 13 overall prospect in Texas, according to 247Sports. Coming from a smaller private school in a public school-dominated state like Texas, Warren hasn’t had the spotlight on the field. He’s excited to take part in the game and test himself against the best.

“I think it’s an amazing blessing,” he said. “I honestly would never bet coming from a small private school I’d end up playing in such a prestigious game with some of the best players in America, so it’s just a real joy and a blessing.”

Warren has never seen the game before, but he’s heard it talked about. Warren plans to soak up the experience while he’s there.

“I’ve never actually watched it,” he said. “I’ve heard about it. I’ve only ever watched the senior bowl, but never the high school one. I’m looking forward to seeing what it’s about.”

While crossing the country on recruiting visits throughout the last two years, Warren made many friends on recruiting visits. The game will be an opportunity to see some old faces before they all head off to college.

“I think one of my guys Jordan Ross is playing in it,” he said. “I’m excited to play against him before we end up in college playing against each other. A couple of other guys I know are playing in it too. There’s a whole lot of people that I know or I met on visits, so it will be a cool opportunity to see the guys again before we are off across the country.”

Warren’s recruitment was a contested match between several schools. Michigan was one of those programs and the Wolverines are still in hot pursuit of Warren, but he’s not planning on listening to any programs other than Tennessee.

“The only other school coming after me at this point is Michigan, but I’m all in with Tennessee,” he said. “There’s no switching at this point.”

Warren will need to make some adjustments at the next level. He feels his biggest growth will need to be in the run game if he wants to be successful in the SEC.

“I’m working on my run game,” he said. “Coming from here to there, I think it’s going to be a big jump up.”

The college football transfer portal market is moving quickly, especially at quarterback. Within two days of Georgia’s Brock Vandagriff entering, the No. 17 overall prospect committed to Kentucky.

Also this week, a pair of former Power Five starters — Texas Tech’s Tyler Shough (Louisville) and Indiana’s Brendan Sorsby (Cincinnati) — came off the board.

Still, there are plenty of other big fish left in the transfer portal sea at the sport’s most important position.

Get the latest football and basketball transfer portal news from 247Sports.

Here’s the latest on what we’re hearing at 247Sports.

Usually, the phrase “quarterback dominoes” in college football is associated with high school recruiting. It’s a common phenomenon on that level. One quarterback commitment can set off several others.

Most schools only take one quarterback a cycle, and the spots can fill up fast. Take it from a former No. 1 overall recruit, with Quinn Ewers of Texas telling 247Sports earlier this year: “When a big-time quarterback is committed somewhere, it definitely changes other peoples’ minds on where they want to go.”

His situation — committing to the Longhorns Aug. 14, 2020 — impacted current Alabama starter Jalen Milroe, who originally pledged July 16, 2019, to Texas before he flipped to the Crimson Tide Aug. 17, 2020. On the high school level, that type of thing happens all the time.

That domino effect is something we’re beginning to experience with the transfer portal, too, if the recent transfer quarterback commitments of Brock Vandagriff to Kentucky, Tyler Shough to Louisville and Brendan Sorsby to Cincinnati are any indication.

Obviously, high school to transfer portal recruiting isn’t a one-to-one comparison. Transfer quarterbacks, especially the good ones, tend to have a lot of leverage. It’s also clear that they’re recruited well ahead of time in many cases; Vandagriff committed to Kentucky within two days of his decision to leave Georgia becoming public.

But the idea remains the same: Secure a spot while you can.

Transfer recruitments happen in a matter of weeks, compared to years in high school. Unless you’re a top-of-the-market player, the market doesn’t tend to wait.

That’s why, at least in some cases, you’re seeing quarterbacks secure a spot when they can. Behind the scenes, more spots are accounted for than you might think (247Sports’ most recent VIP transfer portal quarterback piece will clue you into some impending dominoes on that front), and there’s a rush to secure the right spot.

Shough gets to play in a system that’s produced NFL QBs under Louisville head coach Jeff Brohm, who previously mentored Las Vegas Raiders rookie sensation Aidan O’Connell while at Purdue from 2017-22 and has developed Cardinals starter Jack Plummer into a potential pro signal-caller.

Vandagriff gets to stay in the SEC and play for an offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach, in Kentucky’s Liam Coen, who helped turn Will Levis from Penn State backup to Wildcats star and the 2023 NFL Draft’s No. 33 overall pick.

Sorsby, for his part, will play for Bearcats head coach Scott Satterfield — someone with a long history of quarterback success, dating back to his time leading Appalachian State (2013-18) and Louisville (2019-22).

Those are three valuable starting jobs in the Power Five market that are now filled.

Landing quarterbacks quickly also helps the schools. Not only do they get to grab a top-end signal-caller off the buffet table before its picked through and all that’s left is some crusty grilled chicken, but getting a QB in the class helps a program’s case to recruit other players or convince those to stay who are already on the roster.

Louisville and Kentucky are both heavily in the mix for transfer wide receivers, and it’s difficult to woo them without being able to tell them who’s throwing them passes. Landing a quarterback early helps solve that issue.

Beyond recruiting other players, landing a quarterback quickly also gives programs an idea what they have to work with in terms of their name, image and likeness (NIL) budget. Quarterbacks eat up the largest chunk of the unofficial salary cap, and securing one early can help a team know where to best allot the rest of its money.

There’s a reason why quarterbacks are coming off the board more quickly than any other position. Quarterback dominoes are no longer just part of high school recruiting. They’re the reality of the transfer portal process, too.

Get the latest football and basketball transfer portal news from 247Sports.

Quarterbacks are entering the portal earlier than ever, and they’re committing earlier than ever for a reason. You never want to be the last domino standing.

Clemson transfer Toriano Pride, the 2024 college football transfer portal’s No. 1 cornerback, will be playing next season at Missouri. He made his commitment to the Tigers and head coach Eli Drinkwitz this week.

“They’re getting a kid with NFL ability,” said 247Sports college football analyst Carl Reed, who coached Pride through the former top-40 recruit’s junior season of high school. “He’s going to be able to step in and start immediately, and they get a local hometown legend that’s coming home.”

Pride played his senior season for powerhouse East St. Louis (Ill.) High and had a lengthy offer list as a four-star recruit in the 2022 class. He chose Clemson over 26 other programs and figured to receive similar interest on the transfer market. The two-year veteran, who played in 26 games over his first two seasons at the college level, accumulating 36 tackles and nine pass breakups.

“He’s a versatile athlete, but he checks all the boxes,” said 247Sports national recruiting analyst Cooper Petagna. “He can do everything there from an athletic standpoint, but I love the fact that he can play on the boundary. You can play him in the nickel, as well.

“This guy played really well against FAU, Wake Forest, two games that he started earlier in the season at Clemson. I love what he can do. I love his physical ability. I think he has a lot of technical maturation still left in his game, so this is a guy that I think, if he finds the right fit, he can come in and make an immediate impact.”

Pride is the No. 12 overall player in the 247Sports Transfer Portal Rankings. He was the No. 6 cornerback and No. 40 prospect overall in the 2022 cycle.

Get the latest football and basketball transfer portal news from 247Sports.

Here is a link to the Mizzou 2024 class here.

Dylan Harper has committed to Rutgers, sources confirmed to 247Sports. The five-star combo guard from Ramsey (N.J.) Don Bosco Prep is college basketball’s No. 2 national recruit in the 2024 class.

“Harper is making public that decision at the @Fanatics offices in New York shortly,” Adrian Wojnarowski first reported.

The 6-foot-5, 210-pound Harper is the younger brother of recent Scarlet Knights star Ron Harper Jr.

Dylan Harper decided to stay home and play for his brother’s alma mater over attending Auburn, Duke, Indiana and Kansas.

“They’re not recruiting me for my family and my brother, but they’re recruiting me for me,” Harper told 247Sports about Rutgers in a recent interview. “They have been recruiting me every step of the way so just them staying by my side is really a good thing.”

The commitment of Harper is the cap to what is an unprecedented class of 2024 for the Rutgers men’s basketball program.

Harper joins Ace Bailey, the nation’s No. 3 player, making for the program’s two highest-ranked recruits ever.

Harper brings scoring, playmaking, rebounding and passing to pair alongside Bailey’s explosive and electric game on the wing.

At the Nike EYBL Peach Jam this July, Harper averaged 21.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists while shooting 52.1% from the field, 35.7% from 3.

Harper joins Bailey, Lathan Sommerville, Bryce Dortch and Dylan Grant to comprise of Rutgers’ 2024 recruiting class that now ranks No. 3 in the country.

For more on this unprecedented class and how it came together, Eric Bossi has it covered here.

It’s the night before IMG Academy five-star offensive tackle Jordan Seaton announces his college decision and it looks like it could go a couple different ways leading into Thursday’s commitment date.

Here is the skinny as Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, Ohio State and Tennessee battle for the ballyhooed left tackle prospect’s signature.

LAS VEGAS — The NCAA’s new president wants to make game-changing changes to the organization, allowing the wealthiest schools to pay players directly and write new rules to govern themselves within a new competitive subdivision in Division I — and he hopes to have the plan in place, along with support from Congress, within the next year. NCAA president Charlie Baker introduced the proposal in a memo forwarded to the 350 Division I schools Tuesday.

And on Wednesday during a speaking appearance at the Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, Baker said that he believes about 100 schools are financially prepared to pay student-athletes at least $30,000 per year.

The proposal would allow the wealthiest athletic departments to create rules that would differ from those for the rest of Division I athletics programs. Much like today’s Autonomy Five — ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC — the group would be provided more freedom to create new scholarship limits and implement new rules on recruiting, transfers and NIL.

“One-third of the schools have the ability to do more for student-athletes. They just do. Just look at their budgets, they do,” Baker said. “In the pursuit of what we call competitive equity, there’s a restraint there. Once upon a time, the pursuit of competitive equity was considered to be OK. And it’s not really anymore.”

Baker’s three-page memo was short on details — but ambitious — and unusually fresh for the maligned NCAA, often criticized for its reluctance to change and lack of innovation within its governance structure. Collegiate leaders voiced support for Baker on Wednesday but remained cautious and measured in their reactions. Several said they require further study and feedback from athletic directors. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey seemed perturbed that commissioners were not included in preliminary discussions before the memo was released.

“Why wasn’t our board brought into this conversation sooner?” Sankey said Wednesday. “And why weren’t our athletics directors part of the conversation? So, that’s a tactical decision that has been made.”

Three of the country’s most powerful commissioners spoke Wednesday at the forum but exited the event without accepting questions from the media.

Baker’s proposal calls for schools in the new subdivision to pay individual athletes $30,000 annually, with funds pulled from a trust fund. Schools can opt in or out but must meet minimum standards, which include payments to at least 50% of student-athletes. Baker’s plan operates “within the framework” of Title IX, he wrote Tuesday. Fifty percent of the trust fund’s payouts must be directed to women athletes.

Which schools can afford such payments is up for debate. Fifty-nine schools spend more than $100 million annually on athletic budgets. With an average of 500 student-athletes at Division I schools, direct payments to 50% of players would total an average of $7.5 million per school.

Baker’s plan also allows schools to strike name, image and likeness deals with players, which is not allowed under current NCAA rules. Perhaps most important is the ability of the schools in the new subdivision to create rules, which could include increasing scholarship allotments, the size of coaching staffs and more.

Again, these are just ideas and possibilities — and just the start of what promises to be a long conversation among leaders.

“You can start it somewhere but you better get together with the membership at the presidential level and the (athletic) directors level and even the coaches,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said. “You can have the best ideas but you have to get to the practitioners and the people on campus who understand the complexities that they’re faced with — and you have to build a consensus. It’s not going to please everybody.”

Baker’s plan has hurdles beyond the NCAA’s membership. Collegiate leaders are seeking help from Congress to institute a national standard for NIL, which will be required as the NCAA seeks legal protection after the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Alston case in 2021 paved the way for complicated NIL state laws — and has since led to several more lawsuits.

Baker joked Wednesday he needs “a little antitrust exemption” from Congress. The four remaining Power Five commissioners participated in a series of meetings with lawmakers last week in Washington, D.C.. They exited hopeful Congress will introduce and pass legislation to regulate NIL across the country.

“I hope we will have dealt with this elephant in the room (in a year),” Baker said. “And create some form of framework nationally that works for DI and for student-athletes that doesn’t crush DII and DII, and gives us a framework that works for schools and student-athletes.”

Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez had concerns about the proposal, particularly how a new sub-division could negatively affect mid-to-low-tier schools that rely on large-scale tournaments such as the NCAA’s March Madness to fund their athletic departments. What happens if the new subdivision opts to create its own tournament, leaving out the mid-tier schools unable to meet the NCAA’s new requirements to join the new subdivision? Again, it’s a hypothetical situation but it’s not improbable.

“We have schools that struggle and take a longer runway to get there, if at all, and what does that do to competition?” Nevarez said.

The NCAA would remain as the manager of the championship events, excluding the College Football Playoff, within the new subdivision, according to the memo.

“The growing financial gap between the highest-resourced colleges and universities and other schools in Division I has created a new series of challenges,” Baker wrote. “The challenges are competitive as well as financial and are complicated further by the intersection of name, image and likeness opportunities for student-athletes and the arrival of the transfer portal.”

Baker has repeatedly voiced frustration with the size and complexity of the ecosystems within the NCAA. After taking over as president in March, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts vowed to visit leaders with all 97 conferences in the NCAA.

“We need to be able to anticipate where conversations are going and try to get this big, huge, diverse, 180 committees with 2,000 members — oh, my God — to a place where they’re talking about stuff that is coming instead of responding and reacting to other people’s agendas,” Baker said.

Oregon State quarterback Aidan Chiles announced on Monday that he would enter the NCAA transfer portal. 247Sports first reported earlier in the day on Transfer Portal Palooza that Chiles was expected to enter.

Chiles was immediately rated the No. 2 overall player and No. 1 quarterback in the 247Sports Transfer Rankings.

With the departure of Jonathan Smith from Oregon State to Michigan State, there was speculation that Chiles might enter the portal, even though starter DJ Uiagalelei announced last week he too would go in.

Achieving something that’s the “best in program history” isn’t easy. Doing it for a second time, in the same year is even harder. Steve Pikiell and Rutgers did exactly that on Wednesday when they landed Dylan Harper.

Ranked No. 2 overall in the class of 2024, the 6-foot-6 combo guard from Ramsey (N.J.) Don Bosco is the highest ranked high school player to ever commit the Scarlet Knights. This comes less than a year after 2024’s No. 3 ranked player Ace Bailey of Powder Springs (Ga.) McEachern cast his lot with Pikiell and Rutgers.

Add those two potential college stars to a solid class that already includes No. 102 Lathan Sommerville, No. 144 Bryce Dortch and three-star Dylan Grant and you have a 2024 recruiting haul that now ranks No. 3 overall in the 2024 industry generated Composite Team Rankings.

It’s a class that deserves a deeper look as it should be able to deliver immediate results and set Rutgers up for even more long term success.