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Football Recruiting

News Commits Offers Rankings OOS All Recruits

Status:

Signed

HIGH SCHOOL

Loia Valade

Athlete

6′0″ / 190 lbs

Boca Raton, FL

West Boca Raton

Class of 2026

loia_valade

Rating: 90

National Avg

Rating: 89.0

School Preferences

Texas A&M

Signed

Arkansas

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Arkansas State

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Auburn

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Boston College

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Duke

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Florida

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Florida State

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Indiana

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Jacksonville State

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Kentucky

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Liberty

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Louisville

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Maryland

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Miami

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Miami (Ohio)

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Purdue

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Tulane

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Vanderbilt

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Virginia Tech

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Wake Forest

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Videos

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Updates

3 days ago by Jason Howell

Around the SEC: Recruiting News & Trends

It's time to take a look around at the biggest pickups on the recruiting front as well as some of the top recruiting news and notes from around the SEC. Jason Howell details that and more in this week's Around the SEC.

3 days ago by Ryan Brauninger

Loia Valade reclassifies, joining the A&M team next week

Texas A&M commit Loia Valade has reclassified and signed all of his financial aid paperwork to enroll in College Station this semester. He will join the football program next week.The Canada native has bounced around high schools in Tennessee and Florida in the last couple of years and was potentially facing blowback in the Sunshine State for his latest transfer. As such, he and his camp made the decision to go ahead and get his college clock started.Obviously, it's unlikely that he'll factor at all this season, but the Aggies did have to survive a late surge by Miami as rumblings about his reclassification began to emerge late last week.

Recruiting Country: The latest recruiting news surrounding the Maroon & White

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11 days ago by Jason Howell

Recruiting Country: The latest recruiting news surrounding the Maroon & White

TexAgs' senior recruiting analyst Jason Howell joined TexAgs Live in-studio on Wednesday morning for another edition of Recruiting Country presented by American Momentum Bank, highlighting the latest news and notes from the recruiting trail surrounding Texas A&M.

12 days ago by Jason Howell

Out-of-state HSFB games for A&M fans to keep on the radar

Texas A&M's top-ranked 2027 recruiting class features standouts from across the country, and they're about to begin their senior season of high school football. With that in mind, here are 10 games from outside the state of Texas to pay attention to on Friday nights this fall.

1 mo ago by Jason Howell

Three Things: Fall camp is coming, 2027 class & more

As he does every Friday morning, TexAgs' senior recruiting analyst Jason Howell offered up another round of his weekly recruiting thoughts. In this edition of his Three Things, Howell discusses potential additions to Texas A&M's 2027 class, prospects to watch and more.

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TexAgs National Average Rating

The TexAgs National Average Rating is a proprietary formula that calculates an industry-wide aggregate rating for each recruiting prospect. The formula includes publicly listed grades, scores, ratings and rankings by national recruiting services, along with a TexAgs rating. Combining the data provides a rating for each prospect, which is then normalized to fit the TexAgs Rating 100-point scale.

The intent of this rating is to provide TexAgs readers with a comprehensive snapshot of how individual prospects rank nationally.

TexAgs Rating

The TexAgs Recruiting team of Billy Liucci, David Sandhop, Jason Howell, Ryan Brauninger and a host of recruiting interns attends more than 75 games each fall and observes and evaluates every major Texas A&M target, as well as most of the top 150 prospects in the State of Texas. From this evaluation the team draws a rating for each prospect on a scale between 70 and 100.

99-100: Elite national prospect (Five-star)

Considered one of the best prospects in the nation and a likely difference-maker at the collegiate level. Displays all of the physical skills to be a future All-American with potential to be an early-round NFL draft pick.

90-98: Elite state prospect (Four-star)

Considered one of the best 30-40 prospects in the state and a top 250 national prospect. Displays the physical skills to be a major early contributor at the collegiate level with high professional potential.

80-89: Quality prospect (Three-star)

Considered one of the best 100 prospects in the state and a top 500 national prospect. Displays the physical skills to develop into a contributor over the course of his college career. Has the ability to become a professional prospect over time with development.

70-79: Solid prospect (Two-star)

Considered one of the top 250 prospects in the state. Has the physical skills to be a potential contributor at a D-1 program over the course of his collegiate career with significant development. Professional potential is low.

Staff Predictions

The predictions represent which school each staff member believes will ultimately sign the recruit, and the confidence meter represents his level of certainty in that outcome.

Example #1

If the predicted school is Texas A&M and confidence is set to “High”, then the staff member is saying “I believe that this recruit will ultimately sign with Texas A&M and I feel very certain about that.”

Example #2

If the predicted school is “Alabama” and confidence is set to “Low,” then the staff member is saying “I believe that this recruit will ultimately sign with Alabama, but I’m not very certain about that.”

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