Byu has obtained his bonded quarter-arre commitment since 2002, when the Ryder Lyons four-star recruit, n ° 49 of the ESPN 300 2026, announced Tuesday his commitment to cougars on Oregon on “The Pat McAfee Show”.
Lyons, a prospect of 6 feet 2 inches and 205 pounds of Folsom, in California, is the pocket n ° 5 of ESPN in the 2026 class and entered Tuesday as an undeveloped quarter of the nation. While Lyon will sign within the framework of the 2026 class of Byu later this year, he intends to serve a mission of the Saints of the last days after obtaining the diploma next year and will officially join the cougars before the spring of 2027.
Following a series of unofficial visits this spring, which included stops in Michigan, Ohio State and Ole Miss, Lyons reduced its finalists to Byu, Oregon and USC in May and planned official visits with each program for June.
Lyons then canceled his trip to the USC, finally closing his recruitment with visits to the Ducks and Cougars during a consecutive weekend from June 13 to 22.
With Byu, Lyons territory as a quarter potential of the future with the program that offered him his very first scholarship offer in December 2021. He is the second row of three ESPN 300 commits in the 2026 class of coach Kalani Sitake.
“They poured me a lot and made me feel very necessary,” Lyons told Espn. “The love they have shown – not only coaches staff, but everyone there – they showed me how much other program they want.”
Lyon, the football player of the year of Gatorade by California 2024, will also arrive on campus in 2027 as the best rated quarterrier sign from Byu since Ben Olson joined the program in the 2002 class.
A qualified improviser who can extend the games with his feet, Lyon exploded during his second season at the Lycée Folsom. He completed 67.9% of his throws for 3,578 yards with 38 touches passers -by and eight interceptions as a first -year starter in 2023, then followed with 3,011 yards and 46 affected in the air as a last autumn. Lyons also turned out to be dangerous in the field in the rows of the school, combining for 1,514 yards on the ground and 37 scores on the ground through two seasons as a starter.
The cougars have considerably intensified their zero efforts through the sports department in the past year, sources said in ESPN. In December, the byu’s male basketball program obtained the addition of the overall perspective n ° 1 AJ Dybantsa, a wing of 6 feet 9 inch which would have ordered a contract of seven figures with seven-digit.
The football program now has its last cornerstone in a potentially historic class of 2026 which includes Brock Harris (n ° 32), the highest rank of the program, and the highest defensive pledge of the program since at least 2006, and the defensive tackle in the Mulitalo state (n ° 105), which freaked from Oregon.
With signatures from Harris, Mulitalo and Lyons later this year, the cougars would have their very first recruitment lesson with at least three best prospects in the era of ESPN recruitment (since 2006).
For coach Dan Lanning and Oregon, the promise of Lyons in Byu marks the last very publicized Miss of the program during the 2026 cycle. The Ducks were finalists for the five-star offensive platform Jackson Cantwell (Miami) and the quarter-Arrière n ° 1 Jared Curtis (Georgia) last month. On June 19, Oregon lost against Texas A&M in the recruitment of the five -star athlete Brandon Arrington (n ° 14).
The Ducks should now turn their attention to the three-star passer Matt Ponatoski, a star of two sports who visited the program last weekend, sources told ESPN. Boise State Decammit Bryson Beaver is another recent visitor on Oregon radar, with Alabama, Auburn and LSU, among those who record a significant interest in the quarter-back three stars up from Murrieta, California.
On the commitment of Lyons, only two of the 18 quarters in the 2026 ESPN 300 remain not engaged. The double threat smuggler N ° 1 Landon Duckworth (n ° 104) should engage in the coming weeks following official visits to South Carolina and Auburn. The four-star four-star Oscar Rios (n ° 192) should choose between Arizona and UCLA on Friday.
