PPR GREATER ORLANDO TOP 50
Class of 2027 & 2028 • September 2026
The Metro just got its first full board of the year! 👀🏈
Prep Prospect Report’s Greater Orlando Top 50 is not a popularity list. It is tape, frame, production, and Week 4 proof stacked on top of what we already knew.
Fred Ards III stays No. 1. The Jones edge is 6-5, 220, Class of 2027, and Week 4 against Lake Highland did not change the evaluation. Sack. Blocked field goal. The same first-step problem for tackles that has been on film since last winter.
Behind him the board is a Jones wall and a skill-group argument. Taihj Moore (DeLand, 2028) holds No. 2 as the best young back in the footprint. AJ Chung (West Orange, 2028) is No. 3 because the box score in the Shield game was quiet and the evaluation was not.
Noah Robinson and Braylon Otis keep Jones’ interior and edge identity intact at 4 and 6. Jaelyn Powell is the Edgewater hammer at 5. That is the floor of this list. Everything after that is movement.
WK4 blew the middle of the board open!
Will Jackson did not sneak into the Top 10. He kicked the door. Seventeen of 22, 383 yards, three touchdowns in Evans’ 38-14 win over Winter Park. Maryland already has the 6-4, 205-pound 2027 quarterback. Greater Orlando just got the public reminder. He lands at No. 7.
Cale Britt jumped because the play was the kind that ends debates. Sixty-five-yard interception return for a touchdown against Lake Highland Prep. Wisconsin commit. Bishop Moore linebacker. Class of 2028. He sits at No. 10.
Brian Dillard is the other Evans riser. Eighty-five-yard touchdown, USF commit, 6-0, 170, Class of 2027. No. 13. When Jackson went vertical, Dillard was the answer.
Elijah Nickerson closed the first poster at No. 25 the way Lake Nona drew it up when they waited on him. Two passing scores and a 16-yard touchdown run in a 24-3 win over Edgewater. Dual-threat frame. 2028. The Metro saw why.
Slade Wittstock is a new addition to the list. Lake Mary. Offensive line. 6-2, 290. Class of 2027. Starting lineman on the 2025 Class 7A state champions. School lineman of the year. Center who can play all five spots. Colgate already in.
Ards. Robinson. Otis. Dajour Webb (No. 9, two sacks in Week 4). Ke’Sean Williams. Reggie Harris. Antwoine Glover II still on board. That is seven Tigers in the 50 before you count anyone else on Orange Avenue. The 2027 class at Jones is the deepest single-school group in Central Florida, and Week 4 against Lake Highland was another night of the defensive line deciding the game.
Sebastian Galeano opens it at 26 after 300 yards and four touchdowns. Yale commit. Oviedo. Johnnie Cobbs is 32 after 19 carries for 180. Same offense, same Friday.
Nate Watkins holds 27 as the Ocoee quarterback who took the Knights to the lip of a Shield steal. Corey Glenn Jr. is the new 28. West Orange. DB/ATH. 5-10, 155. Class of 2028. Pick-six already this season. INT, forced fumble, fumble recover. Week 4 tape against Ocoee.
Brycen Marbrey (Lake Howell, 2028) is 30 with the arm talent that already has Power conference mail. Yuto Kawamura-Johnson and Jayden Ammons keep West Orange’s 2027 skill group on the paper at 35 and 36. Grant Gaston, Nalin Rogers, Mason Wills, and Jordan Banks are the Week 4 defensive splash names that earned a spot. Duke Carpenter (Geneva, 6-5, 255, 2027) is the length piece at 47. Kaleb Bielski closes the board at 50 after five touchdown passes for Innovation.
It is the first honest 50-deep look at the Metro’s next two recruiting classes after four weeks of real games. Jones up front. West Orange and Evans on the perimeter. Bishop Moore in the box. Lake Mary in the trenches. Lake Nona and Ocoee with 2028 quarterbacks who already have starting tape. Oviedo with a complete Friday night. DeLand and Seminole with splash-play defenders.
The watchlist is live. The next Friday can move a name. It cannot invent one.
Evaluated. Verified. Respected.
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