Recruiting
The Utah high school football recruits college fans should know — rankings, commitments, and the in-state names moving up each cycle. Elevating every sport in Utah.
Last updated October 18, 2026
Football's early signing period comes in December, and the NCAA's January transfer window opens on the first business day after Jan. 1. The stories below track Utah's high school names; the profiles show where Utah-raised players are on college rosters now.
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A Utah high school football player who is not signed by a four-year program in February has two in-state routes that keep a season on the calendar: Snow College, the state's only junior-college football program, and a developmental league SUU attached its online courses to in April 2026. Here is what each one is, what the NCAA changed for two-year transfers in June 2026, and how to check a claim against an official source.
Orem's Sami Blackett brings two First Team All-WAC seasons and 771 career kills from Utah Valley to Utah State, landing on the Pac-12 Preseason Impact List as the Aggies enter a new conference.
BYU officially signed 6-foot-9 Pole Jakub Urbaniak, a professional at WKS Slask Wroclaw and a Polish national-team debutant, to fill its 2026-27 center need.
Utah State's 2026 volleyball signing class includes eight transfers, four freshmen and eight players with Utah high-school or hometown ties ahead of the Aggies' first Pac-12 season.
Utah Valley's newest signings — Lehi's Emerson Fuller and Mapleton's Jettlee Ioane — trace a clear path from Utah high schools through junior college and into Division I softball.
Marcus and Moses Espinoza-Owens won three state titles apiece at Viewmont, then spent three seasons at South Dakota State. Now the twins are coming home to wrestle for Utah Valley.
Athletes
Football players from Utah hometowns on a current Utah college roster, each checked against the official roster.
Dylan Story is a redshirt sophomore quarterback from Pleasant Grove, Utah, and American Fork High School on Snow College's 2026 football roster. Through the Badgers' first six games of their first Southwest Junior College Football Conference season he has thrown for 763 yards and eight touchdowns, including three in one night against No. 7 Trinity Valley.
Diego Grateron is a redshirt junior inside linebacker on Utah State's 2026 football roster and a 2026 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete, earned with a 3.65 cumulative GPA as a kinesiology and exercise science major. The South Jordan native played at Bingham High School and spent two seasons at Snow College before joining the Aggies.
Ran Sawyer is a sophomore running back and kick returner from St. George, Utah, and Dixie High School who wears No. 4 for Southern Utah football. His 99-yard kickoff return touchdown in the 46-33 win at Utah Tech on October 3, 2026, earned him the Big Sky's Special Teams Player of the Week award.
Seth Rigtrup is a running back from Springville, Utah who plays for Weber State, with 396 rushing yards and seven touchdowns on 65 carries through Oct. 17, 2026. He transferred to the FCS Wildcats for 2026 after a standout season at Snow College, where he ran for 688 yards and 10 touchdowns in nine games for the Badgers in 2025.
Tayson Reid is a sophomore linebacker on Utah's 2026 roster (No. 54) who has played in the Utes' first five games, recording one tackle, per his official bio (read Oct. 18, 2026). The Spanish Fork, Utah native joined the University of Utah from Snow College. A three-star JUCO prospect rated the No. 4 linebacker in his class, he spent 2025 at Snow before joining the Utes' 2026 roster.
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