Waukee (Ia.) 2026 tight end Evan Jacobson received an offer from West Virginia under the previous coaching staff but was excited to find out that the new staff would also be offering him a scholarship.
Jacobson, 6-foot-7, 220-pounds, spoke with tight ends coach Michael Nysewander on the phone and there was an immediate connection between the two.
“He actually played with and knows my high school tight ends coach because they played together at Alabama which is a really cool connection,”
The Rivals.com three-star prospect was able to speak with Nysewander about how he values his skill set and what he could do in the offense.
“He loves my film and what I can do as a football player,” he said.
But Jacobson was even more impressed with how Nysewander spent the majority of the conversation trying to get to know him as a person and establish a bond. The plan is for him to try to make it out to Morgantown for a visit at some point in the near future because he hasn’t been able to do that yet.
But Jacobson made it clear that he believes that West Virginia is an up-and-coming program.
To date, he has visited a number of schools such as Ohio State, Florida State, Miami, Iowa State, LSU, Missouri, Texas A&M, Illinois, Kansas, Kansas State, Louisville, and Wisconsin.
The tight end is keeping things open with his recruitment at this stage of the process but he knows that he wants to find a place where he can be a part of a winning program and be developed on and off the field.
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