2024 3-star WR Brandon Winton Jr. sets Penn State visit

Knoxville (Tenn.) IMG Academy three-star wide receiver Brandon Winton Jr. is visiting Penn State on Jan. 14, he announced Wednesday. It will mark his first trip to see the Nittany Lions.

Winton Jr. is the No. 549 overall prospect and No. 80 wide receiver 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. 79 player in Florida.

On3 rates Winton Jr. higher than other recruiting services, according to the Industry Comparison. Even though he is not ranked in the 2024 On300, Winton Jr. is the No. 63 wide receiver and No. 64 player in Florida.

📍 Penn State Saturday. @coachjfranklin @shadrich80 @chrismahon_ #WeAre pic.twitter.com/OEzIO6TKJ0

— Brandon Winton Jr. (@BrandonWinton1) January 11, 2023

The 6-foot-0, 180-pound wideout is one of multiple prospects heading to State College. Others are Virginia Beach (Va.) Green Run four-star wide receiver Keylen Adams and Potomac (Md.) Quince Orchard four-star EDGE Jaylen Harvey.

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Winton Jr. holds 15 offers. According to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine, Miami is leading for his commitment at 35.7%.

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.

Winton Jr. has an On3 NIL Valuation of $16.4K. 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.