This past weekend marked the fourth week of the 2019 high school football season. Here’s a rundown on how the 2020 NC State Football verbal commitments fared.

4-Star Wide Receiver Porter Rooks had 7 receptions for 105 yards and 2 touchdowns in Myers Park’s 47-0 victory over South Mecklenberg. All of his stats were in the 1st half.

3-Star Safety Nehki Meredith had a 10-yard touchdown run, a 50-yard punt return and three tackles in Bishop Sullivan’s 41-33 loss to Richmond Collegiate.

3-Star Cornerback Aydan White had 2 receptions for 48 yards and a touchdown in Christ School’s 27-7 victory over Murphy. He also had 1 tackle.

TOUCHDOWN GREENIES! Back-to-back highlight reel catches for Aydan White ‘20 on passes by Navy Shuler ‘20, including a 19-yard TD with 2:27 to go. Christ School 27, Murphy 7. pic.twitter.com/k48G6Rbkly

— Christ School Sports (@greeniesports) September 14, 2019

3-Star Defensive Tackle Jaylen Smith had 4 tackles in Hertford County’s 45-18 victory over Northhampton county.

3-Star Cornerback Devan Boykin had 4 receptions for 62 yards in Ragsdale’s 14-7 victory over Southwest Guilford.

3-Star Defensive Tackle Davin Vann had 7 tackles in Cary’s 16-14 loss to West Brunswick, and 2 forced fumbles.

3-Star Quarterback Ben Finley went bonkers, completing 13 of 15 passes for 295 yards and 5 touchdowns (0 interceptions) in Paradise Valley’s 70-24 victory over Shadow Mountain.

3-Star Wide Receiver Stephen Gosnell had 5 receptions for 110 yards and 2 touchdowns in East Surry’s 56-12 victory over Surry Central.

3-Star Defensive Tackle Pheladarius Payne had 3 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 QB Hurry in Lackawanna’s 17-7 victory over Snow College.

3-Star 2020 Linebacker Jayland Parker (6’3″/214) will be taking an Official Visit to NC State this weekend, as the Wolfpack host Ball State on Saturday night (7pm).

Official visit this weekend 🐺 #WPN

— JP🎱 (@JaylandParker) September 17, 2019

Parker included NC State in his Top-3 back on June 15th along with Purdue and Colorado. He took Official Visits to both Purdue and Colorado.

NC State offered Parker back on March 1st, while he was in for an unofficial visit.

Parker committed to Colorado back at the beginning of July, but decommitted on September 8th.

He recently took an unofficial visit to Mississippi State, but I think there’s a strong likelihood that Parker leaves this weekend as an NC State commit. Since his decommitment, 5 crystal ball predictions over at 247Sports have come in, and they all project that he will run with the Wolfpack.

He had 58 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, and 2 interceptions last year in 2018 for Westside High School (Macon, GA). Parker has 17 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 1 interception through the first two games of 2019.

247Sports Composite ranks Parker as the #51 player in the state of Georgia, and ESPN ranks him as the #14 Inside Linebacker in the 2020 recruiting class.

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The rosters for the 2019 Shrine Bowl have been released, and 3 NC State commits are on the roster representing North Carolina.

3-Star Offensive Lineman Jonathan Adorno (Rolesville/Rolesville) – #18 player in NC according to Rivals
3-Star Defensive Back Devan Boykin (Ragsdale/Jamestown) – #16 player in NC according to 247Sports
3-Star Defensive Tackle Davin Vann (Cary/Cary) – #12 player in NC according to 247Sports.

2019 North Carolina Shrine Bowl Roster

• Jonathan Adorno (Rolesville)
• Adam Atkins (Southeast Guilford)
• Jefferson Boaz (East Surry)
• Devan Boykin (Ragsdale)
• Jaki Brevard (Southern Durham)
• Elijah Burnette (Eastern Alamance)
• Elijah Burris (Mountain Island Charter)
• Trey Byers (Ashbrook)
• Chance Carroll (Hough)
• Anthony Carter, Jr. (Butler)
• Roe Chitwood (Myers Park)
• Will Cobb (Weddington)
• Ja’Qurious Conley (Northside-Jacksonville)
• Quinton Cooley (Southern Nash)
• Grant Copeland (West Forsyth)
• Cameron Dairymple (Wallace-Rose Hill)
• Nick Dobson (Wallace-Rose Hill)
• Desmond Evans (Lee County)
• Maliek Faust (Harding University)
• Tavien Ford (Olympic)
• Taurienne Freeman (Westover)
• Cedric Gray (Ardrey Kell)
• Ray Grier (South Point)
• Johnny Hassard (West Rowan)
• Maquel Haywood (Wake Forest)
• Joshua Karty (Western Alamance)
• Jonathan King (Southeast Guilford)
• Ahmani Marshall (East Forsyth)
• Mitchell Mayes (Leesville Road)
• J’Vian McCray (West Brunswick)
• Malik McGowen (Charlotte Catholic)
• Alec Mock (Weddington)
• Chris Morgan (Maiden)
• Darius Ocean (Hough)
• Javondre Paige (Page)
• Jhari Patterson (AC Reynolds)
• Stephen Sings (Vance)
• Chance Smith (Wake Forest)
• Adrian Spellman (Northeastern)
• Da’Qon Stewart (North Mecklenburg)
• Stefon Thompson (Vance)
• Davin Vann (Cary)
• Shane Whitter (Williams)
• G’Mone Wilson (West Forsyth)

Last year 9 of NC State’s 2018 commits were on the North Carolina roster. This will mark the 83rd time that North Carolina and South Carolina have played one another in the Shrine Bowl.

4-Star 2020 Wide Receiver Nate McCollum committed to NC State back on March 31st, but that isn’t stopping Georgia Tech from trying to flip him. He has a scholarship to play both football and baseball in Raleigh, but Georgia Tech has offered him the same opportunity closer to home.

McCollum plays for Dutchtown in Hampton, Georgia.

The Yellow Jackets are laying it on thick as of late. After visiting NC State for their season opener, McCollum was in Atlanta last Saturday watching Georgia Tech beat USF 14-10.

ICYMI, a new target in the slot has emerged for #GaTech & it sounds like the coaches have turned things up.

Dutchtown’s Nate McCollum (@nate_mccollum) details his weekend visit to the Flats, what intrigues him about the Yellow Jackets, & more here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/nuuxkAVPPx

— Russell Johnson (@RivalsJohnson) September 10, 2019

Tech showing love #404Takeover 🐝 pic.twitter.com/7QabbYe3MG

— ᴱᴵᴳᴴᵀ ᵂᴼᴿᴸᴰ🎱🌎 (@nate_mccollum) September 12, 2019

McCollum is showing love to both NC State and Georgia Tech. The Wolfpack coaching staff will have to work to keep McCollum solid on his commitment.

Georgia Tech flipped All-American Running Back Jamious Griffin from NC State last year.

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