This Sentell’s Intel rep on Georgia soccer recruiting has the most recent with 4-star WR CJ Wiley. He ranks because the nation’s No. 15 WR and the No. 136 total prospect for 2025 on the 247Sports Composite. The On3 Trade Rating has him because the No. 13 WR and at No. 116 total.
CJ Wiley simply dedicated to play for Florida State. Wiley picked the Seminoles over Georgia and LSU.
He did so from a ceremony streamed reside by DawgNation from the Brad Zettler LiveLOUD staff assembly room at Milton.
In a stunning flip of occasions, his household didn’t find out about it earlier than the reside stream throughout a number of media shops.
“I needed to shock all people,” Wiley mentioned.
The Wiley household didn’t know.
“I trusted him,” his mom Jay Wiley mentioned. “I imply it has been a journey. I let him have this journey. I didn’t need him to have me make this determination for him after which have him hate me after that if I didn’t work out for him. I informed him ‘It’s on you’ and ‘You resolve the place you wish to go’ and ‘You personal your course of’ right here with all of this.”
“The coaches at Florida State have been phenomenal. They’ve been recruiting him since he was a freshman. They created a bond. It’s a nice faculty and the legacy is phenomenal. I imply with all the things. You’ll be able to’t go unsuitable.”
“Actually I simply did my little guidelines and went down the containers and noticed which faculty match me the most effective and stuff,” Wiley mentioned on Tuesday afternoon.
Wiley additionally mentioned that FSU coach Mike Norvell didn’t know. He mentioned he positioned a name shortly after the ceremony to share the phrase that he could be a Seminole.
“He was simply excited for me and all the things,” Wiley mentioned. “Simply actually. He mentioned I shocked the world.”
He mentioned there wasn’t one second that triggered in his head that FSU was the place.
“I’ve been there quite a few occasions and I simply had the sensation that each time I’ve been to FSU it simply looks like house,” Wiley mentioned after his determination. “Coach Norvell, he greets me properly and like actually simply units the tone for actual. Like contemporary off the go to. Like simply coming in.”
He mentioned that his recruitment would nonetheless be “open” and that he could be open to additional recruitment by each LSU and Georgia, amongst different colleges.
DawgNation might be fast to recollect the story of KJ Bolden from final August. That’s when the 5-star stunned lots of of us by selecting FSU.
That by no means stopped the Dawgs and Kirby Good from persevering with to recruit Wiley and finally, that persistence received out.
Time will inform if the identical factor would possibly occur with this recruitment.
The 4-star needed to decide to a staff with a “successful mindset” all through this system. That was what would match him the most effective.
It was a recruitment that Georgia felt good about after his official go to earlier this month.
Nevertheless it nonetheless needed to maintain off late costs from FSU and LSU on back-to-back officers after he final was in Athens.
What to find out about CJ Wiley
- He’s 6 ft, 4 inches and 210 kilos and has been clocked at 10.8 seconds within the 100 meters.
- Wiley was a go-to goal for the Class 7A state champion Milton Eagles in 2023. He caught 68 passes for 1468 yards, 21.4 yards per catch and 14 touchdowns.
- His mother and father, Chuck and Jay Wiley, are each former SEC athletes at LSU. His sister, Logan, is a Class of 2024 volleyball signee at Georgia Tech.
- His father, a former two-time ALL-SEC defensive lineman, performed six seasons with 4 groups within the NFL, together with the Atlanta Falcons for 2 years.
- He had catches that went for 92 and 99 yards in the identical season for a program that competes in Georgia’s highest enjoying classification
- There’s all that plus this eye-opening recreation movie from his 2023 season.
However that is nonetheless the 12 months 1999 bear in mind? This old-school participant with an old-school work ethic is already revered round Milton Excessive.
Wiley can be in on Sunday mornings after Milton video games within the fall. He’ll be catching balls from the JUGS machine. His mother and father can be there with him. He’ll be there whether or not he had one catch for 23 yards or six catches for 254 yards in his final recreation.
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Luke Nickel on CJ Wiley: Some real love from a QB to his big-play WR
Milton Excessive QB Luke Nickel threw these 14 touchdowns to Wiley final fall. The Elite 11 QB is headed to Miami and he’s had the pleasure of teeing up extra Wiley huge performs on a soccer area than anybody now.
What does he suppose the following QB that throws to Wiley will get from him?
“They’re getting a playmaker, Nickel mentioned. “That’s one. That’s the soccer facet of it. However they’re getting the toughest employee man. The toughest-working receiver round any staff that I’ve been part of. I imply you see him at Milton on Sunday after the video games and I believe he’s mentioned relying on what number of drops he has, he catches a certain quantity of JUGS on the machine. I’m simply sitting there like he doesn’t give his physique a break or something.”
“You’re simply getting a pacesetter, a tough employee and a playmaker with CJ Wiley.”
As one would possibly anticipate, it’s lots of enjoyable to throw to Wiley.
“He’s superb,” Nickel mentioned. “Something you’ll be able to think about from a receiver, he’s received. He’s a kind of receivers if he’s matched up one-on-one with someone you will give him that probability one hundred pc of the time. He’s going to win it each single time. He’s going to run previous you. He’s going to get out and in of his breaks faster than you.”
What’s the largest plus to his recreation?
“I believe it’s his pace and his physique management for a way huge he’s,” Nickel mentioned. “You wouldn’t suppose as huge as he’s he may run his routes in addition to he can. He can run his routes in addition to anyone within the nation and his pace is simply insane.”
He doesn’t really feel responsible throwing it his manner on a regular basis. However he does discover the diploma of issue there.
“Typically I’m like I really feel dangerous for the DBs on the market making an attempt to cowl CJ,” Nickel mentioned. “I undoubtedly suppose that fifty/50 ball you throw to CJ is extra like 80/20 with him. Should you put the ball anyplace close to CJ, he’ll go get it.”
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What does Terrence Edwards take into consideration CJ Wiley?
Terrence Edwards is all around the Georgia file books on the receiver place. He nonetheless stands as this system’s only one,000-yard receiver in program historical past. His profession information are all around the pages of historical past, too.
Edwards, now the top coach at Mount Vernon, additionally coached the receivers final fall for Milton. However the distinction goes deeper there.
When Wiley was in center faculty, he began working with Edwards. He’s been a long-time pupil of #TEWRAcademy developing in Georgia.
He noticed him throughout these “very inexperienced days” in center faculty.
Wiley’s received lots of instruments. Which of them does he really feel will profit him probably the most on the subsequent degree?
“I believe it’s the instruments that lots of people don’t see,” Edwards mentioned. “It’s not the 6-foot-4, It’s not the 195. It isn’t the ten.7 within the 100. It’s his work ethic when there aren’t any lights round. It’s his work ethic to get higher when it’s simply him and his household and it’s no one else watching.”
“I simply inform this story on a regular basis and I’ve to search out this image. We have been having a coach’s assembly on Sunday and CJ is there.”
Edwards had been telling him when he caught the ball over the center to sq. his shoulders up and run.
“That’s as a result of persons are developing from behind you to poke the ball out and it occurred,” Edward mentioned. “Nicely, that subsequent Sunday him and his household have been on the JUGS machine. Which they have been already each Sunday. However Mother was capturing him the ball from the JUGS machine. CJ was catching and Dad had a pogo stick punching the ball out from behind. So there he was, once more, engaged on his recreation when no one else was watching.”
“That’s simply what CJ does and he and his household does and that work confirmed.”
Wiley performed “Z” for the Eagles final fall. He must be an “X” or a “Z” in faculty.
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