National top-30 recruit Austin Attalah commits to Texas Tech football - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Attalah is a junior at Orange Lutheran in California, and for the 2028 recruiting class he ranks as the top player in the state according to the 247Sports composite index, which pulls together ratings from multiple recruiting services. He had more than 30 major programs after him before landing on Lubbock.

Signing a top-30 national recruit from the West Coast signals that Tech's coaching staff is pulling players who have no geographic reason to come here. Attalah had USC in his final group, which is about as close to a hometown program as a California kid can get, and he still picked the Red Raiders. For fans who watch recruiting boards the way other folks watch stock tickers, that choice carries weight.

The 2028 class is still years away from suiting up at Jones AT&T Stadium, but early commitments from prospects ranked this high shape a program's momentum on the trail. Other top recruits watch where the blue-chip players land. A California lineman turning down the Trojans for Tech is the kind of decision that gets noticed nationally.