Eden Prairie defensive lineman Mo Saine commits to Gophers

The 6-5, 270-pounder is the fifth-ranked player in Minnesota in the 2024 recruiting class.

April 14, 2023 at 11:45PM
Minnesota Gophers players wait with head coach P.J. Fleck to run out of the tunnel before their game against the Purdue Boilermakers Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022 at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn. ]
Gophers coach P.J. Fleck and his team waited to take the field last season. (Alex Kormann, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Mo Saine, a defensive lineman from Eden Prairie, announced Friday on Twitter that he has committed to the Gophers football program as part of their 2024 recruiting class.

Saine, 6-5 and 270 pounds, is a three-star recruit who's ranked as the No. 5 overall recruit in Minnesota and the 75th-best defensive lineman in the 2024 class by the 247Sports composite ratings of national recuring services.

Saine received a scholarship offer from the Gophers on April 6 and committed Friday. His other FBS offers came from Arizona State, Army, Iowa State, Kansas and Kansas State. He is the third defensive lineman to commit to the Gophers' 2024 class, joining Prior Lake's Jide Abasiri and Riley Sunram of Kindred, N.D.

Coach P.J. Fleck has 10 players committed to the 2024 class, which is ranked fourth in the Big Ten and 16th nationally in the 247Sports composite.

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Randy Johnson

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Randy Johnson covers University of Minnesota football and college football for the Star Tribune, along with Gophers hockey and the Wild.

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