2025 4-star WR Marcus Harris to visit Alabama Crimson Tide

Kalen DeBoer and the new-look Alabama Crimson Tide won’t have to start from scratch on the recruiting trail, but things won’t be as easy in Tuscaloosa following the retirement of Nick Saban.

As eyes begin to turn toward the 2025 cycle, DeBoer and Co. will have ample time to build relationships with a plethora of the top juniors in the nation — one of whom announced on Monday that he’ll be visiting the prized SEC powerhouse.

Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei four-star wide receiver Marcus Harris is slated to be one of the next best athletes to come out of the elite high school program in the Golden State. He’s already got the offer sheet to back that up, too.

Alabama isn’t on that list just yet, but Harris has clearly caught the attention of the Tide, as he will be in T-Town on Feb. 3.

Harris has already made multiple visits to Texas, Oregon, USC, Colorado, Oklahoma and Penn State. The Longhorns have also already locked in a June official visit with the The 6-foot, 180-pounder.

Harris is the No. 96 overall prospect and No. 11 wideout in the 2025 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He’s also the No. 9 player in California.

He has an On3 NIL Valuation of $68K. 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.

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DeBoer is a fast-rising star in college football who will now be handed the keys to the premier and dominant college football program of the 21st century. Of course, he comes from Washington, where he coached for just two seasons, 2022 and 2023. But in that time, he flipped the Huskies from a 4-8 record program in 2021 to an 11-2 mark, Alamo Bowl win over Texas and a No. 6 final CFP ranking in 2022.

After returning star quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and his slew of elite pass catchers, Washington came into this past season with immense hype. And in a loaded Pac-12, it was DeBoer’s group who stood head and shoulders above the rest, finishing a perfect 12-0 in the regular season before completing a season sweep of a Top-10 ranked Oregon team in the Pac-12 Championship game.

That win completed a 13-0 mark and booked Washington’s bid to the College Football Playoff, their first since the 2016 season, where, coincidentally, that group led by QB Jake Browning and then-coach Chris Petersen, lost to Alabama in the national semifinal.

However, in this year’s semifinal, Washington broke through and toppled Texas for the second straight postseason to earn a spot in the national title game, something no Pac-12 program had accomplished since Oregon participated and lost in the very first College Football Playoff title game.