OT #25 247Sports (grade 89); national #217; 5-star HS recruit
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A 6-8, 335-pound lottery ticket with a multi-year maturity date. Pringle was a top-200 recruit and one of the most coveted tackle bodies in the 2023 cycle, but the college ledger is 13 games and a single start across South Carolina and Syracuse — 2025 was his first real field time, and it was rotational. The tools argument (rare length, easy mass, movement skill for the size) is why mock-draft chatter credits him mid-round upside years in advance; the production argument does not exist yet. However, framing matters: he is a redshirt sophomore tracking toward the 2029 class, so raw is the expectation, not the indictment. What this grade wants from 2026 is simple — a locked-down starting job and a full season of snaps. Fringe-draftable as the profile sits today, with more distance between floor and ceiling than anyone else on Syracuse's roster.
Ceiling · 8.2
Projected 2026 starter (RT1) — real opportunity to climb; significant upside (+2.0) · up-year team · ACC draft-temper.