Syracuse Football: 4-star edge rushers, including country's No. 1 edge, visiting SU

Two four-star edge rushers, one of whom is the country's No. 1 edge in the 2025 class, are visiting Syracuse football, according to media reports and social media posts.

On April 17 and April 18, 2025 four-star edge and top-150 national prospect CJ May will be on a visit to the Orange, he said via his X page.

Additionally, per 247Sports analyst Mike McAllister and other recruiting experts, 2025 four-star edge and top-40 national prospect Javion Hilson will visit the 'Cuse this weekend, and he will be in attendance for the team's annual spring game on Saturday, April 20.

The 6-foot-4, 225-pound May from Alabama had previously given a verbal commitment to Notre Dame. He received a scholarship offer from Syracuse football on January 21 of this year.

The new Orange staff offered the 6-foot-5, 235-pound Hilson from Florida in January of 2024. He is verbally committed to fellow Atlantic Coast Conference school Florida State.

Two elite edge rushers in the 2025 cycle are visiting Syracuse football.

May, a standout at the Highland Home High School in Highland Home, Ala., has secured more than 20 scholarship offers from a range of high-major programs. He verbally committed to the Fighting Irish last September but then de-committed and reopened his recruitment in early February of this year.

Within the 2025 class, May's highest rankings come via 247Sports, which places him at No. 138 overall, No. 16 at edge and No. 12 in Alabama. He is rated in the top 300 nationally by both the industry-generated 247Sports Composite and the industry-generated On3 Industry Ranking.

Hilson stars for Cocoa High School in Cocoa, Fla. In mid-January of 2024, he flipped his verbal commitment from Alabama to FSU. Between late May and late June, per 247Sports, Hilson is scheduled to officially visit Florida, Alabama, UCF and the Seminoles.

He has amassed more than 30 scholarship offers in total, according to 247Sports. The majority of recruiting services rate him in the top 50 overall and in the top three at edge within the junior cycle.

When I penned this story, the 247Sports Composite had Hilson at No. 32 nationwide, No. 1 at edge and No. 5 in Florida within the 2025 class.

So far, head coach Fran Brown and his staff have done a terrific job with their 2025 cycle. The Orange has landed a flurry of commitments since mid-March among high school juniors.

At the time of this writing, the 'Cuse boasted 13 verbal pledges in this class, with the 247Sports Composite ranking the Syracuse football 2025 cycle at No. 10 nationally.