HERO Sports will take you position-by-position with FCS recruiting, and let you know who looks like the biggest recruit at each spot on the field.
Today, we rank FCS linebacker commitments — OLBs, ILBs, whatever … combined.
Today's ranking (below) takes into account only high school recruits (NOTE: JUCOs and other transfers will be evaluated later this spring) who have committed to FCS schools as of the night of Jan. 23. Further updates will continue through national signing day. How do we rank? We pay more attention to the scholarship offers an athlete received than any kind of star rating from a recruiting service. If an FCS recruit holds 17 offers and 6 are of the FBS variety? That will rank him above a recruit who holds three — we let the colleges do the evaluations of film, they're the ones who get paid well to do that.
Full final rankings will be released for teams and prospects on Monday, Feb. 11 at 12 p.m. ET[divider]
RECRUITING SCHEDULE: Conf. by Conf., Pos. by Pos. – And The Grand Finale[divider]
FCS' TOP 2019 LINEBACKER RECRUITS
(As of Feb. 6)
| RK | FCS CHOICE | POS | PROSPECT | HOMETOWN | OTHER D-1 OPTIONS |
| 1 | MAINE | LB | Kolin Demens | Southfield, MI | UCLA decommit, 10 P5s |
| 2 | ETSU | LB | Deven Brantley | Riverdale, GA | 6 P5s, 19 FBS offers |
| 3 | FAMU | LB | Moezies Telfort | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Ga. State decommit, 5 P5s, 10 FBS offers |
| 4 | FLORIDA A&M | LB | Omari Fiffer | Jacksonville, FL | 3 P5s, 17 total |
| 5 | NORTHERN IOWA | LB | Cameron Baker | Council Bluffs, IA | Indiana, Iowa, Cent. Mich, NDSU |
| 6 | JAMES MADISON | LB | Julio Ayamel | Olney, MD | Kentucky – 15 total offers |
| 7 | NDSU | LB | Luke Weerts | Batavia, IL | Kansas St., 6 FBS, 18 total |
| 8 | VILLANOVA | LB | Josh Slay | Atlanta, GA | 8 FBS, 31 total offers; Furman decommit |
| 9 | JACKSONVILLE ST. | LB | Brandon Hudgins | Eufaula, AL | Ga. Tech, Wake Forest, 8 offers |
| 10 | ALCORN STATE | LB | Jordan Richo | Yulee, FL | Minnesota, Rutgers, USF, 7 offers |
| 11 | JAMES MADISON | LB | Jalen Green | Olney, MD | Virginia – 6 total offers |
| 12 | HOUSTON BAPTIST | LB | Philip Ossai | Conroe, TX | Kansas St., 7 FBS, 9 total |
| 13 | MONMOUTH | LB | Isaiah Bishop | Boyds, MD | Missouri, 4 FBS, 7 total |
| 14 | MISSOURI STATE | LB | Lucas Eatman | San Antonio, TX | Syracuse, 6 FBS offers |
| 15 | NORTHERN ARIZ. | LB | Jhasi Wilson | Concord, CA | Ariz. St., Yale, Colum., Howard, San Jose St. |
| 16 | PENN | LB | Ethan Zemla | Littleton, CO | Vandy, 5 Ivys, 11 total |
| 17 | SAMFORD | LB | Trimarkus Cheeks | Hampton, GA | Pittsburgh, 4 FBS offers, 9 total |
| 18 | FURMAN | LB | Joshua Agbenou | Winder, GA | 6 FBS offers, 14 total |
| 19 | JAMES MADISON | LB | Taurus Jones | Portsmouth, VA | 6 FBS, 14 total offers |
| 20 | NORTHERN ARIZ. | LB | Jaden Tauanuu | Antioch, CA | Arizona, 3 FBS |
| 21 | MAINE | LB | Gereme Spraggins | Odenton, MD | Maryland |
| 22 | CHARLESTON SOUTH. | LB | Kevon Hilliard | Cornelius, NC | 5 FBS offers, 10 total |
| 23 | RICHMOND | LB | Tristan Wheeler | Bethlehem, PA | 2 FBS offers, 17 total |
| 24 | JACKSONVILLE ST. | LB | Laletia Hale | Montgomery, AL | 5 FBS offers, 10 total |
| 25 | YOUNGSTOWN ST. | LB | Gianni Rizzo | Irwin, PA | 2 FBS, 15 total offers |
| 26 | SOUTHERN UTAH | LB | Remedy Akoteu | Sandy, UT | BYU, Utah State, Boise State |
| 27 | NDSU | LB | Luke Dwyer | Zurich, IL | 2 FBS offers, 15 total |
| 28 | THE CITADEL | LB | Hasan Black | Wyoming, OH | 3 FBS, 8 total |
| 29 | FURMAN | LB | Bryce McCormick | Nashville, TN | 15 FCS offers |
| 30 | STEPHEN F. AUSTIN | LB | Gerard McKnight | Cypress, TX | UTSA decommit, 3 FBS, 7 total |
| 31 | YOUNGSTOWN ST. | LB | Alex Howard | Cincinnati, OH | 4 FBS offers, 2 FCS |
| 32 | HOUSTON BAPTIST | LB | Christian Guillory | Lake Charles, LA | McNeese decommit; 3 FBS, 6 total offers |
| 33 | PRINCETON | LB | Anthony Corbin | Oradell, NJ | 3 FBS, 9 total offers |
| 34 | ETSU | LB | Diandre Davis | Charlotte, NC | Marshall, Ga State, 6 FCS offers |
| 35 | MCNEESE | LB | Jake LaFleur | Sulphur, LA | La Tech, Tulsa, 4 FCS offers |
