Elite 2026 four-star quarterback Gavin Sidwar from Pennsylvania, who previously had an offer from Syracuse football before committing to another program, has decided to reopen his recruitment.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pound Sidwar announced on his X page on October 27 that he is decommitting from Big Ten member Rutgers and reopening his recruitment. He is a junior at La Salle College High School in Wyndmoor, PA, which is also the same school as three-star wide receiver Julian McFadden, who verbally committed to the Orange for the 2025 class this past April.
Sidwar mentioned on X that he received a scholarship offer from the Syracuse staff, led by first-year head coach Fran Brown, on January 24 of this year. According to social media posts, Sidwar visited Syracuse for an unofficial trip on June 21 and verbally committed to Rutgers on July 1.
According to recruiting services, Sidwar’s complete offer sheet includes schools like Duke, Indiana, Maryland, Pittsburgh, USF, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia.
After his decommitment from the Scarlet Knights, teams expressing interest in Sidwar include Syracuse football and Pittsburgh, according to a post on X by Steve Wiltfong, the vice president of national college football recruiting and the transfer portal for On3.
Syracuse football may make another run at 2026 four-star quarterback Gavin Sidwar.
As a sophomore during the 2023 season at La Salle, Sidwar completed 65.2% of his passes, throwing for 2,439 yards and 29 touchdowns.
As of now in the 2024 season, La Salle holds a perfect record of 10-0 and is ranked as the No. 1 program in Pennsylvania and the No. 36 team nationally, according to MaxPreps.
“Rutgers was great to me from the time they started recruiting me, but I felt like I needed to take more visits and I didn’t want to do it as a ‘committed’ prospect.” – Sidwar. It will be interesting to see if the Orange staff can arrange for Sidwar to visit Central New York again in the future.
In the 2026 recruiting cycle, Sidwar’s highest rankings come from On3, which ranks him No. 193 overall, No. 15 among quarterbacks, and No. 5 in Pennsylvania.
