As the calendar flips to July, West Virginia’s 2025 recruiting class has largely been put together. The Mountaineers received 14 commitments in the month of June alone. The early signing gets underway on Dec. 4, and Neal Brown and his coaching staff already have a really good idea of who will be faxing in their National Letters of Intent later this year.
Here is a list of 2025 verbal commits (listed in order of each player’s 247Sports rating).
- Deandre Desinor
- Romando Johnson
- Jalil Hal l
- Terrance “Deuce” Edwards
- Taylor Brown
- Gavin Crawford
- Trelious “Zah” Jackson
- Teriq Mallory
- Amir Leonard-Jean Charles
- Scotty Fox
- Serious Stinyard
- Montavin Quisenberry
- Michael Hastie
- Chris Fileppo
- Jackson Accuardi
- Eidan Buchanan
- Tyshawn Dues
- Sammy Etienne
- Evan Powell
- Thomas Barr
- Elgin Sessions
Find information on every player currently committed to WVU below.
Desinor is the highest-rated recruit in this year’s class. Some sites list him as a four-star running back, while other list him as a three-star prospect. Either way, the rising senior is one of the top players at his position in the country. The Florida native chose West Virginia over offers from Colorado, Florida, Florida State, and a slew of other Power 4 programs.
Romando Johnson
Johnson, another Florida native, tops WVU’s 2025 recruiting class among defensive players. The 6-3, 250-pound edge rusher is a consensus three-star prospect. Rivals and 247Sports each view him as one of the 35 best edge rushers in the country. Florida State, Mississippi State, Louisville and Rutgers are the other programs he has visited, but Johnson is verbally committed to the Mountaineers.
From just outside of Philadelphia, Hall is a tall pass catching threat on the outside. Standing at 6 feet 4 inches tall, Hall is a consensus three-star prospect. On3 sees him as the 10th-best player in his home state, while 247Sports rates him as the No. 19 player in Pennsylvania. Rutgers and Syracuse appeared to be the biggest competitors on the recruiting trail for WVU.
Back to defense with Edwards. The Richmond, Virginia, cornerback is another three-star prospect in the eyes of all major recruiting cites. 247Sports is the most bullish on him, though the site lists him as an “athlete.”
West Virginia bolstered the future of its defensive line with Upper Marlboro, Maryland, native Taylor Brown. The consensus three-star defensive lineman held interest from James Madison, Marshall, Memphis, Pittsburgh and Temple. At the time he committed, he was the fifth defensive player in WVU’s recruiting class.
Crawford is another Maryland native headed to Morgantown. The interior offensive lineman is listed at 6 foot 3 inches tall and weighing 300 pounds. Announcing his decision in May, Crawford was one of the earliest entrants into WVU’s 2025 class. He is high school teammates with fellow WVU 2025 commit Eidan Buchanan.
WVU has once again kept West Virginia’s highest-rated high school football player in the state. Jackson, a defensive back at Huntington High School, is the top-rated player in the Mountain State. He recorded 33 total tackles, a fumble recovery, six pass deflections and two interceptions last year as a high school junior. One of those intercepted passes was returned for a touchdown. He was the third player committed to the Mountaineers’ 2025 recruiting class.
Mallory is the eighth-highest-rated player overall, but the third-highest-rated offensive skill position player in WVU’s recruiting class. Mallory is listed with a height of 6 feet and 5 inches. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, he has 694 receiving yards and eight touchdowns over the last two years, according to MaxPreps. As a junior he averaged 14 yards per reception.
Rivals sees the Nashville, Tennessee, product as a four-star defensive lineman. Other sites view him as a three-star prospect. Rivals sees him as a top-15 prospect in Tennessee, but other sites see him as a top-30 player in the Volunteer State. Regardless of which site you put the most stock in, big programs like Florida, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee all had offers to him. And Leonard-Jean Charles picked West Virginia.
A native of Mentor, Ohio, on the outskirts of Cleveland, Fox is the quarterback representative in West Virginia’s 2025 recruiting class. Fox is listed as the No. 8 dual threat quarterback in the country by Rivals. 247Sports sees him as the No. 46 quarterback, overall, in the ’25 class. Fox committed to West Virginia last November, in the moments after WVU drubbed Cincinnati in Morgantown. Kentucky, Michigan State, Minnesota and others were in on the right-hander.
Stinyard was serious about his commitment to WVU in mid-June. (Yes, we had to do it.) Stinyard is one of four Florida natives in West Virginia’s recruiting class. As a high school junior last fall, Stinyard tallied three interceptions and five pass breakups. Stinyard committed to West Virginia four days after visiting Kansas State.
Brown dipped back into his Kentucky roots with Danville’s Montavin Quisenberry. A three-star wideout, Quisenberry attends Brown’s alma mater, Boyle County High School. The rising senior tallied 43 catches for 864 yards and 12 touchdowns while also rushing for 800 yards and 18 more trips to paydirt last year as a junior.
Another pass rusher off the edge, Michael Hastie is a three-star defensive prospect out of the football-rich state of Georgia. Jeff Koonz led the way in the recruiting efforts from WVU’s side of things. West Virginia offered Hastie in June of 2023. One year and two days later, he announced his commitment to the Mountaineers.
Chris Fileppo is listed as a 6-foot 3-inch safety/linebacker. Originally committed to James Madison, WVU flipped him on June 23. Fileppo seems to consider himself a safety, and defensive backs coach ShaDon Brown led West Virginia’s recruiting efforts. The Pennsylvania native needed just two days after visiting WVU to make his decision.
Yet another example of the height being collected in this signing class, tight end Jackson Accuardi measures at 6 foot 7, according to lead recruiting sites. Rivals views him as the No. 7 player in Wisconsin; 247Sports says he’s the No. 12 player in the state. Regardless, Accuardi had offers from a number of Power 4 programs, and chose West Virginia roughly a month before making his official visit to Morgantown.
Offensive line coach Matt Moore’s second commitment in this year’s signing class, at least chronologically, is his tallest. Eidan Buchanan’s height is listed at 6 feet 8 inches. Buchanan is teammates with fellow WVU commit Gavin Crawford. He is the highest-rated offensive tackle in Maryland.
The second of two West Virginia kids in this signing class, Tyshawn Dues is rated as the No. 2 player in the Mountain State. Dues competes for Hurricane High School. He was the first in-state commit in the 2025 class, when he announced his decision way back in September. Dues earned Second Team All-State honors last season.
A consensus three-star safety, Sammy Etienne chose West Virginia over interest from Colorado, Kansas State, Marshall and others. The 5-foot-11, 175-pound safety recorded 59 total tackles and one tackle for loss in 11 games last season as a junior at Lakeland High School in Lakeland, Florida.
Evan Powell is one of the most recent commits, announcing his decision on Jun 25. Powell is another Maryland native, and a defensive lineman. In 13 games at Huntingtown High School last fall, he recorded 78 total tackles, including 17 tackles for loss, and 10 sacks.
An interior offensive lineman out of Pennsylvania, Thomas Barr committed to West Virginia on April 4, the same day Zah Jackson. Barr was unrated at the time, but has picked up a three-star rating from all major recruiting outlets. ESPN is the most bullish on him, rating him the No. 30 player in Pennsylvania.
Elgin Sessions
A safety from South Carolina, Sessions is the final commit in this year’s recruiting class. He has a three-star rating, and the 247Composite metrics mark him as the No. 24 player in his home state. In 14 games last fall, he recorded 39 total tackles, four tackles for loss, four interceptions, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.
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