PALM BEACH COUNTY – It’s becoming more crucial each year for high school football players to get noticed early on.

Someone out there may ask: What’s the reasoning to that?

In what has become a fully loaded arms race between colleges at the FBS, FCS, Division II, Division III, NAIA, and JUCO levels, scouts are doing what they can to secure firm commitments well before a recruit’s senior year starts.

This is precisely why we’re now starting to highlight players after their freshman seasons are over with.

Also, we’re seeing now that high school coaches have found ways to effectively play freshmen on the varsity level. The very best high school freshmen – and sophomores – no longer have to either sit on the bench or go through the freshman and junior varsity ranks.

They can get recognized right away, and it’s a testament not only to them, but also their coaching staffs, their parents, their teachers, and any person who has helped them in their respective journeys of life.

With that said, we present to you our updated Watch List for the Class of 2022. We added three more players to the original list of 22 from earlier this year.

Here it is, right below:

RB Darrisse Bridgett (Village Academy)
WR Camden Brown (Delray Beach American Heritage)
WR/CB Brandyn Butler (Wellington)
WR Maurice Collier, Jr. (Pahokee)
LB Derrieon Craig (Delray Beach Atlantic)
OL/DL Daniel Gonzalez (Benjamin)
RB/LB Victor Gutierrez (Royal Palm Beach)
QB Brock Hansel (Park Vista)
QB Zomarion Harper (Glades Central)
ATH Terel Harris (Dwyer)
ATH Matthew James (St. Andrews)
DE James Joseph (Forest Hill)
QB Blake Kendall (Wellington)
RB Markel King (Park Vista)
DB Marquis Lymon (Delray Beach Atlantic)
DB Mike Lucien (Park Vista)
WR Michael Milanese (St. John Paul II)
DB Javan Patrick (Glades Central)
LB Brandon Powell (Benjamin)
LB/RB Zadarius Ramsey (Forest Hill)
DB Randy Stubbs (Forest Hill)
OL Mason Thomason (Dwyer)
RB De’Juan Tolbert (Royal Palm Beach)
DB Blake Volcy (Delray Beach American Heritage)
WR Ja’kavian Williams (John I. Leonard)

PLEASE NOTE: We’ll provide you with yet another update on the 2022 Watch List after this upcoming season ends. It will likely be expanded to anywhere between 30 and 50 players.

Stay tuned.