2024 4-star EDGE Melvin Laster offered by Colorado
2024 Liberty (Mo.) Liberty North four-star EDGE Melvin Laster received an offer from Colorado on Wednesday. He announced the news over social media.
Laster is the No. 262 overall prospect and No. 24 EDGE in the 2024 On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He is also the No. 6 player in Missouri.
A 6-foot-2, 230 pound prospect, Laster has received offers from 12 programs. The list includes Arkansas, Oregon and Texas A&M.
According to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine, the Razorbacks have the lead for Laster’s commitment at 42.8%. Missouri has the next-best odds at 28.3%.
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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.
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It factors in machine learning, social sentiment, visits and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.
The Buffaloes’ 2024 recruiting class does not have any commitments. Meanwhile, Colorado’s 2023 recruiting class is No. 55 in the 2023 On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings and No. 8 in the Pac-12. The group is led by Star City (Ark.) three-star linebacker CJ Turner, the No. 601 overall prospect in the 2023 On3 Consensus.
Laster has an On3 NIL Valuation of $11.7K. The On3 NIL Valuation is an index that looks to set the standard market value for both high school and college-level athletes. 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.