Utah offers 2024 4-star LB Payton Pierce

Lucas (Texas) Lovejoy four-star linebacker Payton Pierce received an offer from Utah Monday. He announced the news on Twitter.

Pierce is the No. 107 overall prospect and No. 11 linebacker 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. 17 player in Texas.

The 6-foot-1, 220-pound Pierce holds 31 Power Five offers.

Very grateful to receive an offer from The University of Utah! @Colton_Swan @UtahCoachWhitt @ChrisRossLOJO @TheCoachJohns @Coach_Lavender @CoachKPark @yjmcknight pic.twitter.com/sLSCxsCMDG

— Payton Pierce (@payton_pierce26) January 24, 2023

The On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine currently has Notre Dame as the heavy favorite to land a commitment from Pierce at 88%.

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.

It factors in machine learning, social sentiment, visits and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.

He currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $48K. 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.