UCLA Football Offers Class of 2025 Outside Linebacker Nasir Wyatt

The Bruins are the latest team to join the race for Southern California's top pass rusher.

Class of 2025 outside linebacker Nasir Wyatt has picked up an offer from UCLA football, the Mater Dei (CA) prospect announced Thursday night on Twitter. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound athlete is the third Mater Dei recruit in his class to earn an offer from the Bruins after the program offered six Monarchs in the class of 2024. 

Wyatt has other offers from Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Cal, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan State, Nevada, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, USC, Utah, Washington and Western Kentucky.

Wyatt's most recent visits were to Oregon in early May and USC in mid-March. Last year, he stopped by USC and Oklahoma, in addition to the multiple national camps he featured in.

Mater Dei had its annual College Showcase on Thursday, and 247Sports reported that UCLA inside linebackers coach Ken Norton Jr. was one of the 40 to 50 coaches in attendance. Wyatt told 247Sports that Norton offered him a scholarship on the spot after the event, and that although he has already been to Westwood twice, he is planning to have a more structured unofficial visit with the staff soon.

As a sophomore at Mater Dei, Wyatt recorded 47 tackles, 27.5 tackles for loss, 13.0 sacks, four quarterback hurries, six pass deflections, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. MaxPreps named Wyatt to its Sophomore All-American First Team and its California All-State First Team as a result.

Wyatt is rated as a four-star recruit by 247Sports, Rivals, ESPN and On3, but he comes in at five stars in the 247Sports Composite. In the 247Sports Composite, Wyatt is ranked as the No. 1 edge rusher in the country, the No. 2 player in California and the No. 24 overall prospect in his class.

Of the nine class of 2025 prospects to receive an offer from UCLA thus far, Wyatt is the first edge rusher. Wyatt joins Brentwood Academy (TN) quarterback George MacIntyre and his Mater Dei teammate, running back Jordon Davison, as the only five-star recruits with offers from the Bruins.

UCLA went without a five-star commit through coach Chip Kelly's first five recruiting cycles at the helm, only breaking the streak when they flipped Martin Luther King (MI) quarterback Dante Moore from Oregon in December. The program hasn't locked up a five-star defensive player since defensive end Jaelan Phillips and cornerback Darnay Holmes in 2017.

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