{"id":301275,"date":"2025-11-19T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:00:07","slug":"nebraska-loses-commitment-from-2026-qb-dayton-raiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301275\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska loses commitment from 2026 QB Dayton Raiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being committed to Nebraska for more than a year, three-star Buford (Ga.) quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/dayton-raiola-161968\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Raiola<\/a> has backed off his pledge to the Cornhuskers. <\/p>\n<p>Raiola, the younger brother of starting QB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/dylan-raiola-147035\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Raiola<\/a>, committed all the way back in September 2024, choosing NU over Charlotte and Appalachian State. He has now decided to reopen his recruitment just a few weeks before National Signing Day, though.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1, 225-pounder now becomes one of the top uncommitted passers in the country. He ranks as the nation\u2019s No. 1602 overall prospect in the 2026 class, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/rankings\/industry-player\/football\/2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals Industry Ranking<\/a>, an equally weighted average that utilizes all three major recruiting services. <\/p>\n<p>Raiola also checks in as the nation\u2019s No. 99 quarterback and No. 158 player in Georgia this cycle. <\/p>\n<p>A two-year starter for state powerhouse Buford, he has thrown for more than 3,600 yards and 43 touchdowns across the past two seasons while completing 58% of his attempts. As a junior, he led the Wolves to a Class 6A semifinal berth and has them poised for another deep postseason run this year.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being committed to Nebraska for more than a year, three-star Buford (Ga.) quarterback Dayton Raiola has backed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[156856,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-301275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-dayton-raiola-26-buford","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}