WR Feaster, top-25 recruit in '26, chooses USC

Four-star wide receiver Ethan "Boobie" Feaster has committed to USC implicit Alabama, LSU and Texas A&M, helium tells ESPN, landing arsenic the latest blue-chip imaginable successful the Trojans' No. 1-ranked 2026 recruiting class.

Feaster, a 6-foot-1, 180-pound walk catcher from DeSoto, Texas, is ESPN's No. 25 wide imaginable and third-ranked wide receiver successful the 2026 cycle.

Initially portion of the Class of 2027, Feaster instantly emerged among the 2026 cycle's apical accomplishment presumption talents pursuing his determination to reclassify successful February. He announced his committedness to USC successful a ceremonial Friday day and joins arsenic the the third-ranked imaginable successful Trojans manager Lincoln Riley's incoming people pursuing visits with each 4 of his finalists this spring.

"They're going to enactment maine successful the champion presumption to spell successful the archetypal round," Feaster told ESPN. "I cognize manager Riley, nary substance what he's going to propulsion the shot and get it to his champion player, and they're ever going to person a quarterback."

Feaster's pledge continues an awesome recruiting rhythm for Riley and first-year wide manager Chad Bowden, who volition adjacent the archetypal week of July with 31 full commits successful 2026. That radical includes much ESPN 300 pledges -- 18-- than immoderate different programme successful the country.

Feaster follows the likes of five-star pledges Elbert Hill (No. 16 overall) and Keenyi Pepe (No. 18) arsenic USC's seventh ESPN 300 pledge since May 1. He besides present leads a talent-rich accomplishment presumption people forming astir Trojans backmost pledge Jonas Williams (No. 159), which features a ESPN 300 pledges successful choky extremity Mark Bowman (No. 26), moving backs Shahn Altston II (No. 97) and Deshonne Redeaux (No. 119) and wide receiver Trent Mosley (No. 189), among others.

USC's latest people entered ranked No. 1 successful ESPN's latest people rankings for the 2026 cycle, successful presumption to decorativeness arsenic the program's archetypal top-ranked people since the 2007 recruiting cycle.

ESPN's apical uncommitted wide receiver earlier Friday, Feaster has accounted for 87 receptions, 1,489 yards and 23 touchdowns implicit his archetypal 2 varsity seasons with Texas powerhouse DeSoto High School, wherever helium claimed a 6A D-II State rubric arsenic a freshman successful 2023. Feaster told ESPN that his narration with USC wide receivers manager Dennis Simmons, who began recruiting him successful mediate schoolhouse arsenic a subordinate of Riley's unit astatine Oklahoma, played a important relation successful his decision.

"I spot manager Simmons," Feaster said. "He's coached guys similar CeeDee Lamb, Michael Crabtree and Jordan Addison. I consciousness bully astir what I tin bash with him."

Per ESPN sources, Texas A&M rivaled USC with the astir lucrative fiscal bundle among the runner-ups successful Feaster's recruitment. The Aggies scope aboriginal July with the nation's No. 3 wide recruiting people and are considered among the front-runners to flip five-star LSU wide receiver pledge Tristen Keys, ESPN's No. 10 wide prospect.