.COSTA MESA, Calif.– Nebraska quarterback dedicate TJ Lateef is actually taking his high school group to brand-new heights, a few months prior to he signs up in Lincoln as component of a recruiting training class that he expects to perform the very same for Matt Rhule’s Huskers.Lateef, a four-star prospect in the 247Sports Composite, sent Orange Lutheran Senior high school to a 42-20 victory on Friday night over Junipero Serra. Lateef represented three goals and assisted Orange Lutheran battle a second-half rally after Serra cut a 28-point halftime deficit to eight.Orange Lutheran, 8-3, is positioned 16th across the country through MaxPreps. It will certainly play No.
7 St. John Bosco following week in the university’s first-ever appeal in the CIF-Southern Area Division 1 semifinal around. The winner might experience No.
1 Mater Dei in the champion round.Lateef, 6 feet 1 1/2 ins as well as 195 pounds, claimed he is actually “100 percent locked in” on Nebraska in advance of the beginning of the early finalizing period on Dec. 4. He is actually a feature in the Huskers’ 20-member lesson that ranks 20th nationally after the flip on Thursday of four-star linebacker Dawson Merritt from Alabama to Nebraska.” We are actually going to acquire a pair more men (to turn),” Lateef pointed out Friday night.
“Our company’re going to stun the planet.” Nebraska continues to operate to flip Millard South limited side Hunt Loftin coming from Florida Condition. Loftin, a four-star prospect, assisted his Omaha team get approved for Nebraska’s Lesson A champion along with a win on Friday evening. It is going to experience two-time defending champ Omaha Westside at Remembrance Coliseum.
Four-star wide receiver Cortez Mills of Ranch, Fla., an Oklahoma dedicate, likewise continues to be an intended of the Huskers.Nebraska aide Keith Williams viewed Lateef on Friday night at Orange Shore University. Orange Lutheran dove out to a 28-0 top as Lateef racked up on a 12-yard run and hooked up for 22 gardens with Arizona State limited end devote AJ Ia.Adversity struck for Orange Lutheran in the 3rd fourth as Serra, behind quarterback Ryan Hopkins, a 2026 target of several Huge Ten programs, led a revival. Lateef went out the game for one play in the third one-fourth with a lower leg trauma, however he came back to send two goal pushes in the fourth one-fourth, surmounting a defender to arrive at the end area from 4 backyards out for the final score.” I just needed to keep the people settled, and also our company took momentum back,” Lateef said.
“I’m regularly visiting stay calm. Visit the exact same man in the hardest opportunities.” Lateef devoted to Nebraska in Might after his April go to for the spring video game. He is actually stayed solid to the Huskers via an active join Lincoln that consisted of the introduction of true freshman Dylan Raiola as the leading QB as well as the change at offending organizer, with Dana Holgorsen participating in the course in very early November and taking over as the play caller this week.Williams and quarterbacks train Glenn Thomas have actually preserved frequent get in touch with throughout the period with Lateef, that is actually tossed for more than 2,000 yards as a senior.Lateef has actually not yet visited with Holgorsen.
Rhule claimed today he would love to maintain the previous head coach at West Virginia as well as Houston on staff to function the Nebraska outburst in 2025. Of Raiola, Lateef said, “I value Dylan. He’s a terrific regulation football gamer.
But my time is mosting likely to arrive. I’ll enter and also contend as well as let the remainder play out. Something regarding me, I am actually certainly not visiting duck competition.
He’s a wonderful soccer player. But I am actually, also.” Lateef mentioned he plans to enroll at Nebraska in January.Required reading( Photograph: Mitch Sherman/ The Athletic).