{"id":415357,"date":"2026-07-28T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415357\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:29:10","slug":"press-telegram-football-preview-top-junior-recruits-in-class-of-2028-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415357\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram football preview: Top junior recruits in Class of 2028 \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Long Beach area is once again proving to be a hotbed for talent in the high school football recruiting scene ahead of the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

With Week 0 set to begin on August 21 and Week 1 on August 28, 247 Sports has ranked the top 61 players in California\u2019s Class of 2028 and nine of the prospects are from the Press-Telegram area, from schools in Bellflower and Long Beach.<\/p>\n

St. John Bosco, which went 9-2 overall last season (with consecutive losses to Mater Dei and Orange Lutheran) is No. 1 with six juniors on the list, led by four-star offensive lineman Elisha Mueller and four-star safety Brandon Nash.<\/p>\n

Long Beach Poly, Millikan and Wilson each have one top recruit.<\/p>\n

Here is a look at where the local juniors are ranked in California by 247Sports:<\/p>\n

Rank, Name, High School, Position, Height, Weight, Number of college offers<\/p>\n

5. Elisha Mueller, St. John Bosco, OL, 6-4, 295, 23 offers<\/p>\n

13. Zion Anderson, Long Beach Poly, ATH, 6-0, 160, 13 offers<\/p>\n

14. Brandon Nash, St. John Bosco, S, 6-2, 200, 15 offers<\/p>\n

26. Elijah Tuua, St. John Bosco, DE, 6-6, 205, 12 offers<\/p>\n

32. DJ Tubbs, St. John Bosco, WR, 5-10, 175, 15 offers<\/p>\n

39. Simote Tupou, St. John Bosco, DE, 6-1, 235, 6 offers<\/p>\n

42. Odell Simms, Millikan, CB, 6-1, 175, 11 offers<\/p>\n

44. Koa Malau\u2019ulu, St. John Bosco, QB, 6-2, 180, 16 offers<\/p>\n

54. Jemel Grigsby, Wilson, ATH, 5-9, 175<\/p>\n

\"WilsonWilson running back \/ defensive back Jemel Grigsby takes part in a spring football showcase on Friday, May 1, 2026, at Wilson High School in Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach area is once again proving to be a hotbed for talent in the high school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13150,7,2043,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-415357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-bellflower","tag-california","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}