Elijah Haven will announce his college decision on April 25, and the five-star quarterback from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has already trimmed his list to two SEC programs, according to a Rivals report by Hayes Fawcett. For a player still in the class of 2027, the timetable is moving fast.
Haven is listed at 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds, and the numbers behind his rise are hard to miss. In three seasons as Dunham School’s starter, he has thrown for 9,229 yards, 134 touchdowns and 17 interceptions while adding 2,383 rushing yards and 44 more scores on the ground. He has led Dunham to a pair of Louisiana Division III Select State Championship appearances and helped the school’s basketball team reach a pair of state semifinal appearances in his first two years of high school.
Rivals ranks Haven as the No. 1 quarterback in the country, the No. 2 player in Louisiana and the No. 11 overall prospect in the class of 2027, which helps explain why his decision is drawing attention well before summer visits and official fall recruiting traffic. Alabama offered him in June of 2025, and he has been back on campus five different times, most recently for the Crimson Tide’s A-Day spring football game on April 11.
Scouting director Andrew Ivins has described Haven as a “supersized quarterback that is going to have a chance to be the face of the franchise with his tools,” and he compared him to longtime NFL backup Jacoby Brissett. That kind of size-and-skill profile has made Haven one of the most watched recruits in the cycle, even before he has played a senior snap.
The remaining question is not whether Haven is a major national prospect. It is which SEC program can finish the job before April 25. With Alabama already heavily involved and the decision date set, the wait is short and the stakes are clear.