Dylan Moses recruiting saga: 2017’s most famous 5-star picks Bama

September was super slow for college football recruiting. With recruits largely focusing on high school games and more teams playing neutral-site games that are difficult to travel to, not many visits happened. Without visits, not many commitments happened.

But October is off to a great start.

One of the most interesting recruiting process in the country — that of five-star linebacker Dylan Moses, 2017’s No. 4 recruit, per the 247Sports Composite — took an interesting turn on Sunday afternoon.

Moses, who held offers from LSU, Alabama, and Texas when he was still in middle school, verbally committed to Alabama following his visit to Tuscaloosa over the weekend.

Myles Brennan is one of two quarterbacks in LSU’s 2017 class, but rather than focusing on who he’ll be throwing to in college, Brennan’s recruiting goal is to get linebacker Dylan Moses back in Baton Rouge.

The five-star recruit decommitted from LSU before the 2015 season and is the No. 2 player in the country, per the 247Sports Composite. Moses hasn’t released a top schools list, but he did visit LSU during his spring break in March.

The 2016 signing season is over, but 2017 recruiting is already well under way, even if those players can’t sign for another 365 days.

The recruiting rankings will change a lot over the next year, with players moving up and down the board. Here’s a look at the top players to watch for 2017.

Running back Dylan Moses, the nation’s top recruit for the 2017 class, will transfer from University High in Baton Rouge to IMG Academy in Florida to finish his high school career. Moses announced the move on Twitter on Thursday night:

Moses is poised to be both one of the nation’s most coveted prospects in the 2017 recruiting cycle and one of its most-discussed. Offered scholarships by both Alabama and LSU as an eighth-grader, Moses has continued to develop and make good on his hype, now ranking as the No. 1 prospect in the 247Sports Composite rankings of the 2017 class and in the rankings published by 247Sports, ESPN, and Scout. (Rivals has Moses as its No. 4 prospect for 2017.)

Dylan Moses, the unanimous No. 1 linebacker/running back 2017 recruit from Baton Rouge, has decommitted from LSU years after his verbal.

“Wait, years?” you say. “If he’s a 2017, that means he’s about to be a high school junior. Does that mean he committed in like middle school?”

The recruiting race for eighth grader Dylan Moses is heating up, with only 45 months until his National Signing Day: Mack Brown has offered the 6’1, 215-pound middle schooler.

Texas has never offered a middle school player before, but those in the scouting industry seem to think that this kid is special: he’s garnered eight offers, all from powerhouse schools, all without having played a snap of varsity football. He won’t play in college until the players who pledged on the most recent signing day are already graduated or playing their senior seasons, but his unique physical skill set make him worth hyping early, apparently.

But just how do you recruit a middle schooler who is focused on plenty of other things, like how to fit in, impressing a crush, games, internet things, technology, R-rated movies, how to get rides to and from anywhere and why the hell I’m being forced to read like 10 books this summer who wants to read A Tale of Two Cities anyway can’t I just look at the SparksNotes I have two-a-days coming up and I just want to lay in the basement where it is air conditioned this just isn’t fair at all it’s like I don’t even have a summer vacation I just can’t take this I can’t wait to get out of this town?

We turned to the experts at SB Nation to get their takes on which recruiting tactics would have resonated with them when they were in 8th grade. Feel free to post your own 8th grade recruiting tips in the comments.