3-star TE Lafayette Kaiuway drops top 11 schools

Arlington (Texas) Sam Houston three-star tight end Lafayette Kaiuway dropped his top 11 list Wednesday on social media.

The list features Auburn, Baylor, Florida State, Houston, Miami, North Carolina, Ole Miss, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas and Texas Tech.

BEYOND BLESSED
TOP 11@SHTexanFootball @TrustMyEyesO @recruitgfx
*RECRUITMENT STILL OPEN* pic.twitter.com/1fbPdg8y7z

— Lafayette(LA) K. (@litkj09) March 9, 2022

Kaiuway is the No. 439 overall recruit and No. 21 tight end in the 2023 cycle, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

He currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $6.3k. 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.

As of Wednesday morning, the Longhorns are the heavy favorite to land Lafayette Kaiuway, according to the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM).

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

“It was great getting back on campus, I just love being down here and it was great getting to talk more in-depth about my role in the offense,” said Kaiuway. “They compare me and Jahleel Billingsley’s game, so they were saying that his usage will help me see how I fit in the offense.”