The 2024 high school football season is in full swing with all every state underway with games. In this week’s “Who We Watched,” where the 247Sports national scouting and recruiting teams combine to provide the most in-depth nationwide scouting notes from Week 4 of the High School Football season, nationally ranked marquee matchups headline the action. Duncanville’s narrow win against St. Frances Academy (Md.), East St, Louis (Ill.) taking on Philadelphia Imhotep, and Las Vegas Bishop Gorman’s win over Orange (Calif.) Lutheran are just a few of the best games with in-depth takeaways and reactions.

This week’s update also features a handful of notes on five-star athletes in both the 2025 and 2026 cycles, plus an intriguing note on the younger brother of NBA superstar Paolo Banchero.

Similar to last season, we expect a Monday publish date for each of these loaded notes packages.

We will provide a lengthy list of prospects watched in person, on TV broadcasts and via the wonderful modern technological tool of online streams (this does not include the countless hours of tape). For further organizational sake, we will list players by region or state. Examples: Midwest, East (think DMV to the Northeast), South, Florida, Texas, California or West Coast, etcetera.

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Today’s edition features blurbs on 52 players across four different classes and includes commitments for the following schools: Alabama, Arizona State, Army, Auburn, Boston College, Florida, Kent State, Miami, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Penn State, Stanford, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas, Toledo, USC, Utah, Western Michigan.

Zion Elee, 2026 five-star EDGE (in-person evaluation): In my scouting report on Zion Elee’s profile it is mentioned that he appears on the hoof like he was built in a lab to rush the passer and owns the combine testing profile of a field-stretching outside receiver. The combination of physical traits and athleticism were on full display in Duncanville’s narrow win over Baltimore’s St. Frances Academy in one of the more compelling early-season high school football matchups of the 2024 season. St. Frances dominated both lines of scrimmage in the national matchup with Elee putting on display the toolset that make him a five-star and the No. 2 player in the 2026 recruiting cycle. The Maryland native was constantly disrupting the pocket and causing problems for the Duncanville run game. Elee’s best play was unquestionably a strip-sack in the second quarter where he quickly dipped around the left tackle and forced a fumble that was returned for SFA’s first touchdown of the game. After playing at MPSSAA 1A program Joppatowne as a sophomore, Elee has quickly answered any questions about his production against elite competition through four games of his junior campaign.