Fresh Scout Reports

Rising guard talent from the Northeast prep circuit is beginning to turn heads with his combination of size and skill at the point.

When your father averaged 18.5 points per game over 16 NBA seasons, the expectations follow you onto every court you step on.

Standing 6-5 with room to grow, this Class of 2028 forward from the Philadelphia suburbs represents the kind of developmental prospect that college programs love to identify early.

The Class of 2028 is already producing intriguing talents in the DMV area, with one forward at Archbishop Carroll starting to turn heads with consistent scoring performances.

St. John Bosco has a way of making a roster look like a college preview, and the next name in line is a 6-2 guard in the 2028 class. Patterson is sharing a program with players who have already picked…

The Class of 2028 is loaded with emerging talent, and one shooting guard from the prestigious Harvard-Westlake program is quietly building his reputation on the West Coast.

When a forward prospect lands at the prestigious Huntington Prep program as an underclassman, it signals serious potential waiting to be unleashed.

When a 2028 point guard is already making noise with his two-way production and defensive instincts, college programs should take notice early.

A 6-foot-10 sophomore-aged big with no listed offers and no school on file is easy to overlook. The company he keeps is harder to ignore. His name sits next to a Oklahoma State commit, a Maryland commit and a Norfolk…

St. John Bosco's roster reads like a recruiting board: a USC commit at power forward, a San Diego State commit on the wing. A 2028 guard who earns minutes in that room is already getting a daily education most players…

A center from the 2028 class already fielding Division I offers before most of his peers have finished growing into their frames — that alone tells you something about how coaches view Ben McKinney's trajectory. National evaluators have him at…

Jackson Stasny

C · 6-8 · Class of 2028

Word of God Academy

A 6-foot-8 center from Baltimore who landed on a Word of God Academy roster stacked with high-major and mid-major signees. That tells you something before the film does. Programs that build rosters like that tend to put young bigs in…

Kenzo Hounsou

F · 6-7 · Class of 2028

Sierra Canyon

Sierra Canyon's roster reads like a recruiting board, with a Cal commit, a North Carolina commit and a top-20 sophomore guard all sharing one locker room. A 6-7 forward in the class of 2028 who is still waiting on his…

Michai White#17

PG · 6-0 · Class of 2028

Prolific Prep

Newark doesn't produce many floor generals who see the whole chessboard before the ball even crosses half court. Michai White does. At 6-0, he's already pulling in offers from power conference programs before most of his peers have a varsity…

Houston Rolle#49

SF · 6-5 · Class of 2028

Sierra Canyon

Sierra Canyon has made a habit of stacking rosters with players who leave for high-major programs, and the next one off the line might be a lanky 6-5 wing who hasn't played a single minute of varsity ball that matters…

JJ Sati-Grier#47

PG · 6-0 · Class of 2028

Sierra Canyon

Most 6-0 point guards earn attention with one flashy play. The good ones make a scout start writing before the first timeout, and that is the quality the No. 47 ranking in the class of 2028 points to with JJ…

Six-foot-six wings don't typically show up on recruiting boards before high school even starts for them in earnest. Landon Godfrey is the exception that makes you recalibrate what a 2028 prospect can look like on paper before he's even logged…

Joel Patrick#78

C · 6-9 · Class of 2028

Montverde Academy

Six-foot-nine eighth graders don't usually move like this — gliding through ball screens, finishing with either hand, talking on defense like he's been doing it for a decade. Joel Patrick is barely a teenager and already the whisper around Montverde's…

Briarcrest Christian has become one of the more interesting pipelines in Memphis prep hoops, and Will Newby is one of the names quietly working his way up the depth chart there. No offers yet, no national buzz — but scouts…

New Hampton School has quietly become a pipeline for high-major guards, and the next name to watch up there isn't even old enough to drive yet. Beau Millar is three years away from stepping on a college campus, but the…

Freshman year is usually about survival — finding your footing, avoiding the varsity grind before you're ready. Antonio Goldsmith Jr. is already doing more than surviving at Chapin. At 6-4 with guard skills still sharpening, he's the kind of name…

Interim Head

C · Class of 2028

A center with almost no paper trail yet still shows up on radars is either a mirage or a sleeper. Right now, that's the situation with this 2028 big man — a name scouts are jotting down before the file…

Jordan Fisher#123

SF · 6-5 · Class of 2028

Miami Columbus

The most interesting files in a recruiting class are sometimes the ones without a phone ringing yet. A 6-5 wing ranked #123 nationally in the Class of 2028, with no reported offers, is exactly that kind of file.

James Jenkins III#122

SG · 6-4 · Class of 2028

DME Academy

Every scout eventually asks the same uncomfortable question about a prospect in a loaded program: how much of the value is the player, and how much is the roster around him? James Jenkins III plays at DME Academy, where he…

Hudson Hatch#121

C · 6-10 · Class of 2028

Monarch Academy

Most 6-10 centers in the class of 2028 get judged on one thing before anything else: whether they can move. Hudson Hatch enters the evaluation season carrying a national ranking of #121 in his class and no reported offers yet,…

Achilles Orji#120

SF · 6-6 · Class of 2028

Etiwanda

Every spring, somewhere in Southern California, a 6-6 wing gets a quiet nod from a scout in a folding chair and a three-line note on a legal pad. Achilles Orji is one of those names on the list right now,…

Ryan Doane#119

PF · 6-8 · Class of 2028

Mater Dei

Six-foot-eight power forwards with no reported offers and a No. 119 national ranking usually end up in one of two places: a late bloomer who grew into his body, or a kid whose size ran ahead of his skill. Ryan…

Jaleel Smith#118

PG · 6-1 · Class of 2028

Oak Hill Academy

Point guards ranked in the back half of a national top 120 are a tricky group to scout. Some already look like finished products, and others are one growth spurt away from the conversation. Jaleel Smith sits right in that…

Miles Simpson#115

SF · 6-5 · Class of 2028

The Villages Charter

Ask a prep coach what a 6-5 wing is worth in the 2028 cycle and the answer almost always comes back to one question: what does he do once the ball is in his hands and the defense is closing?…

Ask a college assistant what a 6-4 shooting guard in the class of 2028 is worth and the answer is always the same: it depends on what he does when the ball isn't in his hands. Size gets a kid…