West Virginia Sports Now Recruiting Notebook: May 4

Keep updated on all the news and notes concerning West Virginia recruiting in the WVU Sports Now Recruiting Notebook. If Neal Brown, Bob Huggins and their staff extend a scholarship offer, you’ll find out about it in our recruiting notebook.

Update: 9:01 p.m.

**Neal Brown and co. are getting in early on 2022 defensive back Christian LeBrun from New Jersey.

Blessed To Receive An Offer From West Virginia!!💙💛 #BC4L @coachttrickett pic.twitter.com/dLPKPWC3D1

— Christian LeBrun (@609_LeBrun) May 4, 2020

LeBrun (6-foot-1, 195 lbs.) is a three-star safety from Jersey City. Along with WVU, he also picked up an offer from Nebraska today to go with offers from Syracuse, Boston College, Pitt, Temple and Rutgers.

**The Mountaineers have made the top five for one of the state’s top recruits, defensive end Zeiqui Lawton.

Top schools 🙏🏾Recruitment is still 100% open! pic.twitter.com/ssT1pIK5Uz

— Zeiqui Lawton (@ZeiquiL) May 3, 2020

Lawton (6-foot-3, 240 lbs.) is a three-star defensive end from South Charleston and is the third-ranked prospect in West Virginia according to 247Sports and rivals. Also in Lawton’s top five are Boise State, Cincinnati, Oregon and Illinois. West Virginia has been in on Lawton for a while, offering him in June of 2018 and brining him to Morgantown last April.