DL Justin Terrell commits to NC State: 'I made a good decision'

Rome (Ga.) defensive lineman Justin Terrell is seeing NC State clearly. The 6-foot-2, 285-pound defensive lineman has committed to the Wolfpack over Cincinnati, North Carolina, Virginia and Indiana.

Terrell was once committed to Wake Forest. He took his time to look back at the process once he decommitted. Terrell announced his decommitment from the Demon Deacons back on February 7. He’s come out on the other side happy with his decision.

“I feel like I made a good decision and since things have gone well for me,” Terrell said.

NC State has the complete package that Terrell was looking for.

“I was always thinking it, I just wasn’t seeing it clearly at first,” Terrell told On3. “I looked at the stats and their overall development of defensive linemen and sending them to the league was good. I’m feeling like I have a higher chance of doing that at NC State than any other school since they were the top defensive school in the ACC two years running. I’m hearing and seeing all this and that turned me around to seeing it clearly.”

NC State’s coaching staff got an assist from a current player. Terrell built a relationship with current defensive lineman Brandon Cleveland.

Cleveland and Terrell have kept in touch over the last few months. Cleveland made some convincing points that pushed Terrell to a revelation about NC State.

“The players told me how great NC State is,” Terrell said. “He was like, ‘I was committed to Miami at one point and came here and saw all of the good things’. He saw how well the coaches treat you. and he said ‘I’ve visited every school that you have and no other place will be better than NC State. They develop you’. I was like that’s a good deal. I could already kind of tell that about the coaches because I got to hang out with them. So, I know how they treat you well.”

Justin Terrell has high hopes for NC State’s future in the ACC

NC State is coming off an 8-5 season in 2022. Terrell can feel the momentum building toward something more in the coming years.

He believes in Dave Doeren’s culture.

“They are a good team, they have young people on the team and they have young coaches,” Terrell said. “The coaches know what needs to be done. I just know we’re going to get things done.”