Jackson Arnold gets in final pitch for 5-star David Hicks

Katy (Texas) Paetow five-star defensive lineman David Hicks is announcing his commitment tomorrow, and Denton (Texas) Guyer five-star quarterback Jackson Arnold is getting one last recruiting pitch in while he can.

Arnold, who is committed to Oklahoma, posted a photo of multiple Sooners recruits on Twitter with the caption “#HICKSTONORMAN.”

Oklahoma is the favorite for Hicks heading into his commitment tomorrow, according to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine.

Texas A&M is second with his other top seven schools Alabama, Miami, Michigan State, Oregon and Texas — all in a distant third place.

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.

#HICKSTONORMAN pic.twitter.com/FzBbzjYaU5

— Jackson Arnold (@_JacksonArnold_) September 27, 2022

David Hicks is the nation’s No. 1 defensive lineman

The On3 Consensus — a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies — has David Hicks as the No. 9 prospect and No. 1 defensive lineman in the 2023 cycle.

He currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $248k. 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.