2025 GA DB Zelus Hicks (Texas Signee)

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Class: 2026 (high school)
Position: Defensive Back
School: Lilburn (GA) Parkview
Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 180 lbs
Hicks, offered by Perry Eliano, is ranked the 32nd-best prospect and third-best safety in the 2026 class. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Georgia prospect holds 20 Division I offers, including Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Liberty, Louisville, LSU, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and UCF.

So far this season, Hicks has recorded 43 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, one sack, two pass breakups and one forced fumble.

 

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• Five-star 2026 safety Zelus Hicks: "The visit was great one of the best I’ve been on. The atmosphere was incredible and the team played great the freshman safety came up and played good."

 

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texas

 

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Bagmen.

 

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Texas prospect Hicks to reclassify into '25 cycle

Zelus Hicks, ESPN's No. 1 safety in the 2026 class, plans to reclassify into the 2025 cycle and will enroll at Texas next year.

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Texas safety prospect Zelus Hicks to reclassify into '25 cycle​

Zelus Hicks, ESPN's No. 1 safety in the 2026 class, plans to reclassify into the 2025 cycle and will enroll at Texas next year, the four-star Longhorns pledge told ESPN Tuesday afternoon.

Hicks is ESPN's No. 18 prospect in the 2026 class and will likely enter the 2025 ESPN 300 as a top-50 prospect in the current cycle. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound defender from Carrollton, Georgia, has been committed to Texas since Sept. 12 when he picked the Longhorns over Georgia, Ohio State and USC. Hicks told ESPN he has not yet determined whether he will enroll at Texas in the spring or summer, but confirmed that his commitment to the Longhorns remains solid ahead of the start of the early signing period on Dec. 4.

"I've been debating this decision since my sophomore year after starting as a freshman and playing against the best talent in the nation," Hicks told ESPN. "Many colleges have been telling me I should do it. With prayer and talks with my family I decided it was the best move to make."

 

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I still cannot wrap my head around how a high schooler can finish school a semester early let alone a full year.

 

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I still cannot wrap my head around how a high schooler can finish school a semester early let alone a full year.

I can, a lot of kids can have all their credits done by 2nd semester of senior year. If he takes summer classes, and I believe some classes you can even test out of. It’s very possible.