Report: After blowing it, NFL Network offers WR Ja’Marr Chase a second chance to make announcement
By Kevin Duffey
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Commitments are very big events for elite high school football players.
Of course, several of them announce commitments via their Twitter accounts, but most of the elite prospects wait until they get their opportunity on live TV to make their declaration. Fair or foul, that’s how it is in 2017.
On Monday at the prestigious The Opening event, 4-star WR Ja’Marr Chase (Metairie, La.) was set to choose between LSU and TCU. Instead, he didn’t get a chance to commit at all, and the network essentially skipped his commitment because of scheduling issues. Chase and his family obviously weren’t happy about it (look at his Twitter account), and the network has received negative feedback because of it.
Now, the NFL Network is offering Chase and his family a second chance, according to ProFootballTalk.
“We are trying to facilitate him doing it on Total Access,” spokesman Alex Riethmiller told PFT.
The network said cancelling Chase’s commitment didn’t happen on purpose, but that his 7-on-7 game ran late, and he wasn’t available during the scheduled time slot. However, other reports seem to indicate that he was replaced with higher rated recruit Greg Emerson (who committed to Tennessee) and that Emerson’s airtime bumped Chase’s commitment.
Chase is rated as the nation’s No. 40 WR and the state’s No. 6 overall prospect, according to 247Sports Composite Rankings. Most figure Chase will commit to TCU when it happens.
A graduate of the University of Florida and founder of Saturday Down South, Kevin is a college football enthusiast.
