Early Signing Period: UNC Football 2020 recruiting class live tracker
By Zack Pearson
We track the Early Signing Period for the UNC Football program and their 2020 recruiting class under head coach Mack Brown
The Early Signing Period is finally here as recruits around the country will sign their national letters of intent to play for a college next season. It’s the first time 2020 football recruits can sign with their program leading up to National Signing Day in Feburary.
For the North Carolina Tar Heels, this is the first true recruiting class under head coach Mack Brown who is in his second stint with the program. Brown took over for Larry Fedora back in November of 2018 and put together a nice 2019 class despite barely being on the job.
This should be a really good class for Mack and his staff as they are expected to sign 26 players who are currently verbally committed. There also shouldn’t be many big surprises in this period aside from verbal commit Clyde Pinder. The defensive tackle visited Florida over the weekend but is expected to sign with the Tar Heels during the period.
As it stands now, Brown’s class is ranked No. 17 per 247 Sports and should remain a Top 20 class when it’s all done. They will have seven 4-stars and 19 3-star recruits signed to their class.
We will keep this page updated as the commitments, news and more come in. Make sure to keep checking back with Keeping It Heel for the latest on the football program and any recruiting news that comes in during this three-day early signing period.
Live tracker
- 11:10 a.m. — Jacolby Criswell posts this message on Twitter and will enroll in January.
- 11:00 a.m. — 24 of UNC’s 26 verbal commits have signed their LOI
- 10:15 a.m. — Rob Cassidy goes on to continue his report about Pinder, saying we could see a decision later today.
- 9:46 a.m. — 4-star target Clyde Pinder Jr. will NOT sign today per a report. by Rob Cassidy of Rivals.
2020 verbals (2)
- 3-star DT Clyde Pinder
- 3-star RB Elijah Burris
2020 Signees (24)
- 5-star DE Desmond Evans
- 4-star DE Myles Murphy
- 4-star WR Josh Downs
- 4-star QB Jacolby Criswell
- 4-star DT Kedrick Bingley-Jones
- 4-star S Cameron Roseman-Sinclair
- 4-star S Ja’Qurious Conley
- 4-star LB Ethan West
- 3-Star ATH Jefferson Boaz
- 3-star DE Kaimon Rucker
- 3-star G Jonathan Adorno
- 3-star WR Stephen Gosnell
- 3-star OT Cayden Baker
- 3-star WR Tylee Craft
- 3-star WR Ray Rose
- 3-star RB Elijah Green
- 3-star TE John Copenhaven
- 3-star DB Jayden Chalmers
- 3-star OG Malik McGowan
- 3-star DE A.J. Beatty
- 3-star LB Cedric Gray
- 3-star OT Trey Zimmerman
- 3-star TE Kendall Karr
- 3-star RB D.J. Jones
Uncommitted Targets Remaining
- 3-star DT Clyde Pinder
- 3-star RB Elijah Burris