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Five-star defensive tackle Aubrey Solomon knows the school he’ll end up playing at next season, so here’s the latest on the nation’s No. 11 overall player. 

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It wouldn’t be a typical recruiting cycle if Jim Harbaugh didn’t grab headlines in one way or another. His most recent antics involved go-karting with 5-star prospect Aubrey Solomon and Solomon’s family.

Solomon, the No. 2 defensive tackle and No. 11 overall player in the country, is a former Michigan commit. He backed off his pledge this past fall due to communication issues with the Wolverines staff.

Now, Harbaugh is trying to get Solomon back to Ann Arbor for good, but he’s fighting tooth and nail with Nick Saban, as Alabama has been labeled as Solomon’s leader. With that being said, Georgia and USC aren’t going away easily and are continuing to pursue the 5-star recruit.

It may not matter, though, because Solomon already has his mind made up.

“I feel like I have found out where I am going,” Solomon told Scout. “It came to me on Wednesday. I just prayed about it the night before, and when I woke up, the answer came to me.”

When asked about whom Solomon had let in on his secret, he clarified that he would begin sharing his decision with friends, family and his coaches this past weekend.

However, he did divulge the biggest variables that factored into his decision.

“For the school I am going to, it came down to what they have been doing in football and their graduation rate,” Solomon said. “What they have been doing in those two areas has been pretty unbelievable …”

This past season, we learned that Michigan had the second-highest graduation success rate among Big Ten schools with 90 percent of its student athletes having gone all the way in their academic careers over the past four years. Only Northwestern had a more successful rate with 97 percent. However, when it came to the Wolverines’ football players, there was a 79-percent GSR.

Alabama’s overall rate as an athletics program was 89 percent, but the football program posted a mark of 80 percent, which was the fourth-highest in the SEC.

USC’s football program posted a GSR of 67 percent, and Georgia’s football team had a GSR of 60 percent.

Off sheer numbers, one can infer it’s down to Alabama and Michigan.

Note: Scout rankings and ratings used in this article.

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