Virginia Tech has picked up verbal commitment #1 for the 2007 football recruiting class, and it comes from a linebacker prospect out of Osbourn Park High School in Manassas, Virginia.

Quillie Odom , a 6-1, 200-pound prospect, is the first player to pledge to Tech’s 2007 class.

“He had a lot of schools coming in such as Syracuse, Virginia, Maryland, Marshall and JMU, so he was being recruited by a lot of different people,” Osbourn Park head coach Brian Beaty said. “I know Tech was one of the schools on the top of his list. I had a chance to send a tape to them and he’s been in communication with them. I guess he was pretty impressed with them because he committed.”

Beaty says “I think some others offered” as well, but wasn’t sure which other programs had extended official offers.

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