The Twitter post appeared just after noon Sunday.

“100% committed. Fargo, ND … I’m home.”

And, with that, Jamestown High School senior quarterback Trey Drake is officially a member of the 2023 North Dakota State University football recruiting class. His announcement came only three days after the Bison extended an official offer.

“I feel like God orchestrated this whole thing,” Drake told The Post-Journal on Sunday night. “When you know, is when you know.”

Drake, who attended a camp at NDSU last month, had also received Junior Day invites from multiple other FBS and FCS programs, including West Virginia, Marshall, Buffalo, Holy Cross and Stony Brook. He also visited Delaware in the spring, and had drawn interest from Pittsburgh and James Madison.

But, in the end, it was NDSU that was the right fit for the 6-foot-3, 205-pound signal caller.

“I want to thank Coach Entz, Coach Hedberg and Coach Roehl, Coach Peters, as well as the entire NDSU coaching staff, for believing in a kid from Western New York with a dream to play Division I football,” Drake said in his Twitter announcement.

North Dakota State plays at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level and competes in the Missouri Valley Conference. To suggest the program has been dominant would be an understatement. In fact, according to Wikipedia, the Bison have won nine NCAA Division I FCS National Championships between 2011 and 2021 and hold the record for most overall NCAA national championships and the most consecutive championships with five titles between 2011 and 2015.

Furthermore, since 2011, the Bison have a 149-12 record, including a record 22-game playoff winning streak, making them the most successful football program in Division I FCS this decade. Among the quarterback alumni who have called SDSU home are Carson Wentz and Trey Lance, who were both top-three NFL picks in the last seven years.

NDSU will be getting an accomplished athlete in Drake. A two-sport standout at Jamestown, Drake led the football and basketball teams to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Final Four as a junior, while also being named a Post-Journal/OBSERVER first-team all-star in both sports. Behind center, Drake has thrown for 3,414 yards and 39 touchdowns in his first three seasons, while completing 62% of his passes and compiling a 114.6 career QB rating.

“I would call Trey a ‘lunch-pail’ guy, blue collar,” said John Kinder, a quarterback trainer who has worked with Drake for years. “He takes a very professional approach to our sessions. He’s ready to work, he has a very strong focus on just getting better every single time we’re working the craft. He really works the process.

“That fits the mode of guys they’ve had in the past. … I think he fits the mode of the ‘Bison Way.'”

Jamestown head football coach Tom Langworthy described Drake as a “special talent at quarterback.”

“But he has been able to combine the talent with relentless effort and a vision and goal to get a Division I scholarship,” he said. “He’s just worked tirelessly to achieve that goal while also being a good teammate and being captain of our team. We’re very happy for him and we all kind of share a sense of achievement that he got this.”

Langworthy also asserted that Drake is a “great example” for future Red Raiders.

“You don’t need to come from a huge school in Florida, a private school or a giant 7A school in Texas to go Division I,” he said. “It’s special that we have one of our own, in our own community, that’s achieving big things like this.”

A young man of deep faith, Drake thanked his parents, Ben and Karen; Kinder; Langworthy; and the rest of the Jamestown coaching staff for the roles they all played in getting him to this point in his athletic career. Ben Drake, the athletic director at Jamestown Public Schools, is also the successful high school boys basketball coach.

“He instilled in me what it meant to be a ‘1-percenter,” Drake said of his father. “That means 1 percent of all high school athletes go on to play at the Division 1 level. He sat me down (years ago) and asked me if I wanted to be a 1-percenter and I told him yes.”

Drake will now reap the rewards of his hard work.