Fenwick junior tight end Mike O'Laughlin (6-foot-5, 215 pounds) went from landing a scholarship offer from West Virginia to giving the Mountaineers his verbal commitment in just over a week's time.
"Before I left for West Virginia last weekend I honestly had no plans on committing," O'Laughlin said. "The visit went as well as I could have wanted it to go. West Virginia is just a perfect fir for me in so many ways, so I committed."
O'Laughlin admitted that overall recruiting pressure from so many recruits played a factor in pushing forward his decision.
"These days, committing early is the process," he said. "I know that West Virginia had offers out to other tight ends and the fact that they hadn't added a commitment yet was a gift. After making my visit this weekend I was ready to make my decision. I already had a school who offered me, then a few days later took another kid's commitment. I was not going to let that happen at West Virginia."
Batavia junior offensive tackle Nolan Eike (6-foot-6, 260 pounds) gave Central Michigan his verbal commitment at last weekend's Chippewas spring game.
"I had it planned over the past week or two about committing," Eike said. "I had made three separate visits to Central Michigan already and I'm just very comfortable with Central Michigan. I was ready to make my decision and I feel great about it."
Eike, who was seeing a steady increase in his recruiting stock this spring didn't want to play the wait and see game during the ongoing spring evaluation period.
"I really wasn't waiting around for any other offers or waiting for bigger schools to offer me. I had some good offers but I always found myself comparing them to Central Michigan. After a while, I was always trying to find places better than Central Michigan and why keep waiting when I knew where I wanted to play for already."
Last Sunday, Glenbrook North hosted the annual Under Armour Football Camp and two State of Illinois names added invitations to the 2018 Under Armour All American Bowl game in January. Lincoln-Way East four star ranked defensive end Devin O'Rourke (6-foot-6, 245 pounds) and Carterville three star ranked tight end Luke Ford (6-foot-7, 247 pounds) had standout camp performances on Sunday and will take place in the nationally televised all star game.
Bolingbrook junior three star ranked wide receiver I'Shawn Stewart (5-foot-11, 165 pounds) early on his his recruiting process talked about being committed by now, but at least for now Stewart has pushed back his time frame just a bit.
"I'm going to push it back a little," Stewart said at Sunday's Under Armour camp. "I'm looking at making a decision closer to the beginning of June right before the college camps start up."
Stewart, who earlier this week added his latest offer from Syracuse is "looking harder these days at Iowa, Michigan State, Illinois and Wisconsin."