UCLA lands commitment from four-star DE Jaelan Phillips

Four-star defensive end Jaelan Phillips out of Redlands East Valley announced his commitment to UCLA over Twitter on Thursday.

The 6-foot-5, 230-pound junior was also considering Stanford, Notre Dame, Washington and USC. He spoke to 247sports.com about his commitment Thursday, highlighting UCLA’s academic appeal as well as his history growing up a Bruin. He told Rivals he will shut down his recruitment completely from now on.

Here are his junior season highlights:

Some of his future coaches seemed pretty excited about the news