Recruiting win: UCLA lands 2027 four-star running back Jayshon Gibson
Bob Chesney is having a terrific first class of recruting with the UCLA Bruins. UCLA landed running back Jayshon Gibson on Saturday.
The recruits just keep rolling in for Bob Chesney’s UCLA Bruins . The weekend began with a report that UCLA had landed 2027 four-star running back Jayshon Gibson Saturday morning, giving the Bruins a key offensive weapon. Chesney has put on a masterclass in recruiting since taking over at UCLA in December.
While at Holy Cross and James Madison , Chesney was already compiling a great amount of talent, now Chesney’s doing it at Power Four level in the Big Ten Conference. As of Saturday morning, UCLA’s 2027 class ranks as the No. 7 recruiting class in the nation .
247 Sports actually has Gibson as a three-star recruit, but the 247 Sports’ composite has Gibson as the Bruins’ seventh four-star recruit, joining Jackson Roper and Jerry Outhouse Jr. , who both committed to UCLA on Friday . BREAKING: Four-Star RB Jayshon Gibson has Committed to UCLA, he tells me for @Rivals ⁰ The 5’10 195 RB from Fort Worth, TX chose the Bruins over Arizona State, Kansas State, Michigan, and Arkansas “I’m home, we building some special” https://t.
co/v6igVbtTMd pic. twitter. com/22RFBpg6p8 — Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) May 2, 2026 Like Outhouse, Gibson comes to UCLA from Texas, as the North Richland Hills native chose to head to Westwood over offers from Michigan, Iowa and USC.