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Clemson offers rising 2024 3-star EDGE Darien Mayo

On3 imageby:Drew Schott01/28/23

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Darien Mayo
Photo by Chad Simmons/On3

Olney (Md.) Good Counsel three-star EDGE Darien Mayo received an offer from Clemson on Saturday night. He spent the day on an unofficial visit to the Tigers.

Mayo is the No. 554 overall prospect and No. 34 EDGE 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. 15 player in Maryland.

On3 rates Mayo higher than other recruiting services, according to the Industry Comparison. Even though he is not ranked in the 2024 On300, Mayo is the No. 23 EDGE in the country and the No. 11 player in Maryland.

“We’ve been talking for a while, for at least the last two months,” Mayo told On3’s Chad Simmons on Jan. 16. “It’s a good school, great family atmosphere I hear, so I definitely want to experience it. We’ve been talking for a while, like I said, and just want to get down there Jan. 28 and have a good time.”

The 6-foot-6, 240-pound defender holds 24 offers. According to the On3 Recruiting Prediction MachinePenn State is leading for his commitment at 30.4%.

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.

For more Clemson recruiting intel, check out Clemson Sports.

Clemson’s 2024 recruiting class contains four players. They are Woodstock (Ill.) Marian Central Catholic four-star tight end Christian Bentancur, Tampa (Fla.) Carrollwood Day four-star cornerback Tavoy Feagin, Norcross (Ga.) Meadowcreek four-star defensive lineman Champ Thompson and Cornelius (N.C.) William Amos Hough kicker Nolan Hauser.

Mayo currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $12.6K. 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.