With the announcements of four-star edge rusher Naki Tuakoi and three-star linebacker Sefo Akuila, BYU has rounded out its 2024 recruiting class, and it’s time to make a pronouncement: this is the deepest recruiting class BYU has ever had, especially on defense.

Over the last five years, BYU has been able to land two to three high-level defensive recruits in each class such as Bodie Schoonover and Tate Romney in 2020, Logan Fano and Raider Damuni in 2021, Aisea Moa and Marcus McKenzie in 2022, and Siale Esera in 2023. Those are all excellent power five level players that boasted 49 competing power five offers between them. The problem was that those seven players accounted for over 70% of all competing power five offers held by the defensive players signed between 2020-2023. After those players, the recruiting floor dropped off significantly with 40 of the 51 players signed holding fewer than two competing P5 offers and 23 players holding zero competing FBS offers.