2024 top-30 CB Charles Lester III wearing Georgia gloves

Sarasota (Fla.) Riverview Charles Lester III is one of multiple players participating the Battle Miami 7-on-7 event. At the showcase, he is wearing Georgia gloves.

Lester III included the Bulldogs among his top five schools. The others are Alabama, Florida, Florida State and Ohio State.

Elite Florida CB Charles Lester rocking UGA gloves today at Battle Miami @ReuseRecruiting https://t.co/gQsDqvckCG pic.twitter.com/8S4qfBqyfG

— Sam Spiegelman (@samspiegs) January 21, 2023

A 6-foot-2, 171-pound defensive back, Lester III is the No. 26 overall prospect and No. 3 cornerback 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. 8 player in Florida.

According to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine, the Crimson Tide have a commanding lead for his commitment at 81.2%.

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 Georgia recruiting intel, check out DawgsHQ.

Georgia’s 2024 recruting class contains eight players. They include Clanton (Ala.) Chilton County School four-star linebacker Demarcus Riddick, Moultrie (Ga.) Colquitt County four-star tight end Landen Thomas and Bellflower (Calif.) St. John Bosco four-star safety Peyton Woodyard.

Lester III has an On3 NIL Valuation of $114K. 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.