2025 4-star OT Mason Short announces unofficial visit to Alabama

2025 Evans (Ga.) four-star offensive tackle Mason Short will be unofficially visiting Alabama on Sept. 3 for the Crimson Tide’s season-opener against Utah State. He announced the news earlier Wednesday on social media.

Short is a four-star recruit, according to On3. He was included in the On3 2025 Football Prospect Watch List.

I will be visiting The Crimson Tide sept. 3rd 🐘🐘 #Rolltide @FBCoachWolf @CoachJoeCox pic.twitter.com/H5Sr80wLvX

— Mason Short ✞ ♹ ♷ (@MasonShort_) August 25, 2022

A 6-foot-7, 280 pound prospect, Short currently has 16 offers. Some of them are from top college football programs including Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State.

According to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine, it is a close race for Short’s commitment. The Bulldogs have the highest chance at 28.2%, but the Crimson Tide aren’t behind at 24.7%.

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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.

Alabama currently has no commitments in its 2025 recruiting class. Meanwhile, the Crimson Tide have three commitments in their 2024 recruiting class. They are Pinson (Ala.) Clay-Chalkville four-star athlete Jaylen Mbakwe, Rome (Ga.) four-star tight end Martavious Collins and Foley (Ala.) four-star wide receiver Perry Thompson.

Alabama’s 2023 recruiting class is currently No. 1 in the 2023 On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings. The group contains three five-stars and 12 four-stars among 21 total commitments.