Virginia Football Recruiting Strategy Session 2021: Top Needs

The Strategy Session will be a bi-weekly, big-picture outlook of University of Virginia football recruiting in the class of 2021, providing you the latest scholarship numbers and relative news on the recruiting trail.

Let’s begin with a look at the projected scholarship numbers for the 2021 season.

Class Of 2021 Recruiting: The Numbers

Projected Scholarship Number (As of 02/24/20): 69. This number includes current roster players, first-years expected to enroll in the summer of 2020, class of 2020 verbal commit Lorenz Terry, and two class of 2021 verbal commitments.

A Football Bowl Subdivision program is allotted 85 scholarship players. Sixty-nine projected scholarships used leaves 16 scholarships available for the 2021 season. Attrition happens every offseason, however, so the coaches likely have more than 16 spots to work with in terms of class of 2021 recruiting.

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