State players sign Letters of Intent
Below is an evolving list of Connecticut natives and state prep school football players in the Class of 2021 who have committed to play in college.
The NCAA gives Division I players the opportunity to sign their National Letters of Intent early, from Wednesday through Friday. The regular National Signing Day for the Class of 2021 is Wednesday, February 3 and the signing period continues into April.
The list, which will include all high school and prep players in Connecticut, has been compiled by the staff at GameTimeCT through various sources, including players, their families and coaches. Prep school players from Connecticut have their hometowns or previous schools noted in parentheses.
While we attempt to get everybody listed, it is certainly not comprehensive. Players who have signed or schools who have a list of players who have signed should notify Sean Patrick Bowley at sean.bowley@hearstmediact.com or on Twitter @SPBowley to be included. You can also send your signing day photos for display on our gallery.
CIAC SCHOOLS (NCAA FBS & FCS) Tom Bambrick, OL,
Hand — Coastal Carolina**
A.J. Barber, ATH, Greenwich — Princeton
Tyler Basti, TB/LB, Notre Dame-WH — Sacred Heart
Daron Bryden, QB, Bloomfield — Stony Brook**
Mike Coffee, TE/DE, Wilton — Sacred Heart**
Jeffrey Davis Jr., CB, Bristol Eastern (via Kingswood-Oxford) — Penn State**
Matt Gulbin, OG, Wilton — Wake Forest**
Sam Milberg, OL/DL, Staples-Westport — Holy Cross**
Nick Morris, LB, Westlake-Austin, Texas (via Fairfield Prep) — Duke**
Denzel Patrick, FS, Bloomfield — Albany**
Sydney Weibel, OT, Darien — Lafayette**
CONNECTICUT PREP SCHOOLS
(NCAA FBS & FCS)
Kechaun Bennett, DE, Suffield Academy (via Windsor) — Michigan**
Skyler Bell, WR, Taft — Wisconsin**
Tristan Bounds, OT, Choate — Michigan**
Will Bergin, OL, Cheshire Academy (via Cheshire) — Pennsylvania
Jack Brandon, QB, Cheshire Academy — Boston College
Marques Buford Jr., ATH, St. Thomas More — Nebraska**
Jaden Dawkins, LB, Trinity Pawling (via Stamford) — Long Island**
Lucas Desjardins, WR, Loomis Chaffee — Tulane
Jared Dunn, Taft (via Newtown) — Merrimack**
Patrick Evans, OL, Loomis Chaffee — Merrimack**
Luke Foster, TE, Choate
— Yale
Donnie Gray, ATH, Deerfield Academy (via New Haven) — Northwestern**
Jalen Hargrove, DT, Choate — Rice**
Logan Jones, DB, Suffield Academy — Lehigh**
Brad Kemaydou, DB, St. Thomas More — Kent State**
Nate Martey, NG, Loomis-Chaffee — Princeton
Zach LaPolice, Choate (via New Canaan) — Cornell
Daniel Lopes, WR, Cheshire Academy — Villanova**
Grant Jones, OL/DL, Deerfield Academy (via Ridgefield) — Bucknell**
Tyler Phommachanh, QB, Avon Old Farms (via Bunnell-Stratford) — Connecticut**
Jacob Rooks, CB, Taft — Navy
Jaden Shirden, RB, Cheshire Academy (via St.
Joseph; West Haven) — Monmouth**
Will Smalley, OL, Avon Old Farms — Lehigh
Josh Tracey, WR, Avon Old Farms (via Bridgeport) — Connecticut**
Kamren Watkins Hunter, WR, Loomis Chaffee (via Bloomfield) — Georgetown**
James Wilborn Jr., LB, Avon Old Farms — Boise State**
OTHER COMMITMENTS
(NCAA Division II & III)
TJ Abbazia, LB, Greenwich — Trinity
Heath Bostick, DE, Taft — Rochester
Declan Clancy, OL/DL, Canterbury (via Brookfield) — Trinity
Jack Cox, QB, Valley Regional/Old Lyme — Amherst
Mason DeBruyn, LB, Loomis Chaffee (via Vernon) — Rochester
Anthony Difederico, OL/DL, Law — Trinity
Curtis Dion, RB/WR/ DB, Seymour — Nichols
Skye Dolce, TE/LB, Trinity Pawling (via Northwest Catholic-West Hartford) — Trinity
Bo Faughnan, OL, Brunswick — Trinity
Mason Frank, OL, Taft — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Brendan Gaffney, RB/ DB, Simsbury — Trinity
Tyler Garretson, TE/ LB, Coginchaug –New England
Owen Gaydos, WR/SS, Ridgefield — Amherst
Matt Goodman, LB, Loomis Chaffee — Colby
Bill Gorry, OL, Sheehan — Mass Maritime
Isaiah Lizardi, RB, Hall — Middlebury
Jackson Moore, CB, Coginchaug — New England
Owen Nizolek, SS/RB, Kent School (via Guilford)
— Trinity
Dean Pallas, OT, St. Luke’s (via Bethel) — Hamilton
Thomas Perry, OL/DL, Haddam-Killingworth — Middlebury
Austin Pieck, WR, Notre Dame-WH — Amherst
Justin Ortiz, OL, Fairfield Warde — Southern Connecticut State
Connor O’Malley, CB/ WR, Darien — Washington & Lee
Jawaun Smith, RB, St. Thomas More — Western Ontario
Jonathan Velasquez, OL, Cheshire Academy (via Waterbury) — Williams
Jason Villano, SS/OLB, Sheehan — Wesleyan
Jackson Walsh, DT, Darien — Denison
Alec Washeka, OT, Darien — Williams
**denotes player signed early NLI