Alabama offers 2024 4-star LB Cayden Jones during visit

Arden (N.C.) Christ School four-star linebacker Cayden Jones received an offer from Alabama during a visit to Tuscaloosa Saturday. He announced the news on Twitter.

Jones is the No. 136 overall prospect and No. 15 linebacker 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. 3 player in North Carolina.

The 6-foot-4, 205-pound Jones holds 20 Power Five offers.

Coach Saban and @AlabamaFTBL offered! Huge thanks to all the Coaches who hosted us today.
ROLL TIDE! @CoachJoeCox @CoachAArmstrong @Bullough40 pic.twitter.com/uAMMOfstgm

— Cayden Jones (@caydenjones_33) January 28, 2023

The On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine currently has Tennessee with a narrow lead over multiple schools to land a commitment from Jones.

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.

It factors in machine learning, social sentiment, visits and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.

For more Alabama recruiting intel, check out BamaInsider.

Jones currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $42K. 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.