Virginia Tech flipped a pair of recruits on Sunday including three-star QB William Watson III who flipped his commitment from Nebraska to the Hokies.
let’s do it pic.twitter.com/S4GicLtThZ
— William “Pop” Watson III (@WW3thefuture) December 12, 2022
Watson is the 22nd commit for Virginia Tech in the 2023 class and the second QB joining Dylan Wittke. He's also the third commit of the day along with WR Ayden Greene and RB Jeremiah Coney. Watson chose the Hokies over other offers from Nebraska, Michigan, Tennessee, Oregon, Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Arizona, and more.
Flipping Watson is a big time recruiting victory for the Hokies' staff especially given the fact that there was plenty of excitement for Nebraska following the hire of Matt Rhule. Of course, new coaches who don't have preexisting relationship with commits open doors for things like this to happen, but this is a big win for VT to poach the Cornhuskers' lone QB commit.
Additionally, Tech kind of needed a second QB commit especially with the Hokies currently only having 3 returning scholarship QBs plus Dylan Wittke. It also seems possible, if not likely, that Tech could have another backup QB enter the portal given how VT's QB depth chart looked at the end of the season so adding a younger QB combined with a transfer portal QB in addition to Wittke makes a lot of sense.
We will have more as this story develops.
