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UCLA Football Recruiting: 2022 Early Signing Period Central
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UCLA Football Recruiting: 2022 Early Signing Period Central

The 2021 football recruiting class becomes official starting today.

Joe Piechowski
Dec 15, 2021
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Safety Kamari Ramsey from Sierra Canyon HS in Chatsworth became the top recruit in UCLA’s 2022 recruiting yesterday when he flipped to the Bruins from Stanford. (Photo Credit: @BlitzCfb)

It’s a great day to be a Bruin!

That’s because the 2022 Early Signing Period begins today!

For the fifth year in a row, college football begins its Early Signing Period today and recruits can officially sign their National Letters of Intent today, instead of waiting until February.

That doesn’t change the fact that today is one of the biggest days on the college football calendar as high school recruits are able to sign their National Letters of Intent and officially announce their college decisions, even though there will be no coverage by ESPN or any other major network today. Pac-12 Networks should have some coverage starting at 8 am this morning.

At this point, this year’s class is easily the best Chip Kelly has had in terms of highly ranked recruits. Of the 12 high school recruits who have committed so far, half of them are four-star recruits. That’s a blue-chip ratio of 50% for this class.

The big problem with the class is it’s still pretty small at this point.

The Bruins had more than 20 players participate in Senior Night a few weeks ago and they’ve had more than 10 guys announce that they are entering the transfer portal. That means more than 30 guys could be leaving the program.

So, a recruiting class of just 12 high school recruits doesn’t come close to replenishing the talent on the roster.

The good news, of course, is that recruiting doesn’t end today. Recruits who don’t sign this week will be able to sign on the traditional National Signing Day in February.

And, then, there’s also the transfer portal, which has worked well for the Bruins in the Chip Kelly era.

There may be surprises in the works for today. UCLA’s Director of Player Personnel tweeted three BOOM!’s yesterday. One was likely for Duke transfer receiver Jake Bobo and another was likely for safety Kamari Ramsey who announced that he is flipping from Stanford to UCLA. Who is the third? Stay tuned.

I would feel a lot better about this class if it was twice the size it is now with the same blue chip makeup, but it is what it is right now. We’ll see what happens.

Keep your browser pointed right here as we will be updating the list below as the NLIs come in.

High School Recruits

Transfers

Join us today as we welcome all the new Bruins to Westwood!


Go Bruins!!!


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Grider55
Dec 15, 2021

Eleven in the portal with most out of state. It can't be Chip and the program, so must be the weather!

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WildcatBruin
Dec 15, 2021

Deion Sanders just flipped a top 5 recruit from Florida State to Jackson State (FCS School). If Azz gets let go what do you all think of hiring Deion as DC?

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