RJ Day's next stop: Northwestern

MaxPreps highlights the St. Francis de Sales player's college plans in a Short drawing an unusually large audience.

Channel: MaxPreps Story of October 11, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 305,409 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (30,020).

St. Francis de Sales (OH) RJ Day is heading to playing at Northwestern next year 🔥 #shorts

RJ Day's college plans have drawn more than 200,000 views in less than half a day on MaxPreps. That already puts the Short well beyond the channel's usual first-day audience of around 30,000 for this format.

The title identifies Day with Ohio's St. Francis de Sales and says he is heading to Northwestern next year. MaxPreps credits the footage to 270gridiron on X, bringing another source's high school football clip into its own coverage. Northwestern's Wildcats play in the Big Ten, giving the school-to-college move a familiar destination for college football viewers.

The recruiting focus sits alongside a different kind of school tradition in MaxPreps' latest uploads: Prairie High School in Iowa burning a letter P during homecoming week. Here, though, the headline is about what comes after high school.

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The numbers

The RJ Day Short has already passed MaxPreps' usual full-day audience for Shorts, with its first day still underway.

the video's first day

usual first day here

30,020

this video

305,409

subscribers

3,500,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

647,615,172

views per day

728,082

the video

views

200,880

likes

2,699

comments

51

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Overtime

3,950,000

MaxPreps

3,500,000

Whistle

3,230,000

NHL

3,050,000

The Pat McAfee Show

3,000,000

Highlight Reel

2,950,000

As of October 11, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.