{"id":1160195,"date":"2026-02-17T14:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1160195"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:48:17","slug":"four-star-wr-quentin-hale-to-commit-on-friday-usc-is-the-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/four-star-wr-quentin-hale-to-commit-on-friday-usc-is-the-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star WR Quentin Hale to commit on Friday\u2014USC is the favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, USC holds just <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/three-star-wide-receiver-eli-152417692.html\">two commitments<\/a> in its 2027 recruiting class. Could a third be on the way soon?<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, USC picked up a projection from Rivals to land local four-star wide receiver Quentin Hale. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/quentin-hale-245778\/\">Rivals ranks Hale<\/a> as the No. 51 overall player and the No. 7 wide receiver in the class of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHale is from Corona, California, and is one of the top wide receivers in the country, with programs across the country battling to land his commitment,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/collegesportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/college-football\/2026\/02\/15\/usc-football-wide-receiver-quentin-hale-projection\/88695468007\/\">JD McCarthy of College Sports Wire wrote<\/a>. \u201cDespite plenty of competition, two experts think the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/usc-trojans\/3467\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trojans<\/a>\u00a0have done enough to become the leader in his recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam Gorney and Greg Biggins of Rivals have both logged predictions for him to commit to USC. They are the only two predictions on where he will go, giving them a 96.4% chance to land him, according to the Rivals recruiting prediction machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hale is set to announce his commitment on Friday. He will choose between the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/usc-trojans\/3467\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trojans<\/a>, LSU, Texas, and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/trojanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/trojans\/football\/2026\/02\/17\/four-star-receiver-quentin-hale-projected-usc-football\/88715523007\/\">2027 four-star wide receiver Quentin Hale projected to USC football<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/four-star-wr-quentin-hale-144817299.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/four-star-wr-quentin-hale-144817299.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, USC holds just two commitments in its 2027 recruiting class. Could a third be on the way soon? On Sunday, USC picked up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}