{"id":137849,"date":"2026-03-14T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137849\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:17:09","slug":"pennsylvania-4-star-lb-high-on-alabama-after-spring-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137849\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania 4-Star LB high on Alabama after spring visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1000\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HDUYbvmXEAEVonM.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto Courtesy of Brandon Lockley <\/p>\n<p>Brandon Lockley feels good about where Alabama football stands in his recruitment after his spring visit to Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n<p>Lockley attends St. Joseph\u2019s Prep High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Most recruiting sites consider him to be a 2027 four-star linebacker prospect. Alabama, Duke, Nebraska and Oregon are among the programs making a hard push for Lockley at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.buildfire.com\/promo\/[SIG] Touchdown Enterprises\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-171739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/app-ad-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide got the four-star on campus this week, and the visit was a success, according to Lockley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re definitely high on my list,\u201d Lockley told Touchdown Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama was able to show Lockley how they operate in practice during his visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great experience,\u201d Lockley said. \u201cSeeing the intensity and tempo of practice really stood out to me. Loved seeing how detailed the coaching is and how competitive everything is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tide will host Lockley for an official visit in May.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2, 230-pounder takes great angles in pursuit of the football with the ability to make tackles in space. He is also comfortable in coverage while defending against the pass. Alabama sees him as a fit at inside linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Brandon Lockley\u2019s Highlights Below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d483e0bb9443d221bed04a726ecc263c79ca68fa11fe091be4677494cfd96697.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-121 photo\" height=\"121\" width=\"121\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Justin Smith is the Managing Editor and Lead Writer for Touchdown Alabama Magazine with over 10 years of writing experience &amp; expertise. Smith has consistently delivered high quality, extensively researched information on the University of Alabama\u2019s Crimson Tide football team that fans can trust. Smith is official credentialed media with the University of Alabama under Touchdown Alabama Magazine. He is also the Director of Recruiting for Touchdown Enterprises, specializing in scouting and analyzing high school recruits around the nation, specifically focusing on recruits within the state of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773447429_767_d483e0bb9443d221bed04a726ecc263c79ca68fa11fe091be4677494cfd96697.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TDALOGOFAVICON70x50fix36.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Courtesy of Brandon Lockley Brandon Lockley feels good about where Alabama football stands in his recruitment after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8197,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-137849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-headline","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}