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Class of 2024 OT Marquise Thorpe-Taylor Earns UCLA Football Offer

The Bruins join USC, Oregon and Washington in pursuing one of the biggest and highest-rated lineman in the region.
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Class of 2024 OT Marquise Thorpe-Taylor Earns UCLA Football Offer
Class of 2024 OT Marquise Thorpe-Taylor Earns UCLA Football Offer

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One of the top tackles on the West Coast has added another SoCal power to his list of suitors.

UCLA football has sent an offer to class of 2024 offensive lineman Marquise Thorpe-Taylor, the Mount Tahoma (WA) prospect announced Monday night on Twitter. The 6-foot-6, 315-pound left tackle has picked up eight of his 10 offers since mid-January.

Thorpe-Taylor's other offers are from Arizona, BYU, Cal, Colorado State, Nevada, Oregon, USC, Washington and Washington State. He has also received interest from Oklahoma and Oregon State.

USC just hosted Thorpe-Taylor for a visit several weeks ago, and he went to Washington and Oregon earlier in the spring. Last May, Thorpe-Taylor took an unofficial to Oklahoma.

Thorpe-Taylor is a steady left tackle with plenty of size, but he has also proven capable of moving laterally and pulling across on screens.

Playing on the other side of the ball as a defensive end, Thorpe-Taylor recorded 25 tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, seven quarterback hurries and two passes defended in 2022.

Thorpe-Taylor is a three-star recruit, according to 247Sports, Rivals and On3. In the 247Sports Composite, Thorpe-Taylor is ranked as the No. 9 player in Washington, the No. 45 offensive tackle is the country and he No. 582 overall prospect in his class.

Among offensive tackles in the West, Thorpe-Taylor ranks No. 5. UCLA has offered three of the four players at his position in the region who are ranked above Thorpe-Taylor.

The Bruins' staff has sent out 43 offers overall to class of 2024 prospects, with 11 going to offensive linemen. One of UCLA's two commits in next year's cycle is an offensive tackle – three-star Eastlake (CA) prospect Joshua Glanz.

Between Glanz and four-star defensive back Khristian Dunbar-Hawkins, UCLA's two-man class of 2024 ranks No. 55 in the country and No. 6 in the Pac-12.

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Sam Connon
SAM CONNON

Sam Connon was the Publisher and Managing Editor at Sports Illustrated and FanNation’s All Bruins from 2021 to 2023. He is now a staff writer at Sports Illustrated and FanNation’s Fastball. He previously covered UCLA football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, men's soccer, cross country and golf for The Daily Bruin from 2017 to 2021, serving as the paper's Sports Editor from 2019 to 2020. Connon has also been a contributor for 247Sports' Bruin Report Online, Rivals' BruinBlitz, Dash Sports TV, SuperWestSports, Prime Time Sports Talk, The Sports Life Blog and Patriots Country, Sports Illustrated and FanNation’s New England Patriots site. His work as a sports columnist has been awarded by the College Media Association and Society of Professional Journalists. Connon graduated from UCLA in June 2021 and is originally from Winchester, Massachusetts.

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