Another weekend of college baseball brought a fresh round of looks at some of the top talent in the country, with several high-profile arms in the 2026 MLB Draft class navigating adversity, a notable injury that impacts the class and at least one red-hot 2027 prospect who should already be on your radar for next year.
Here's a look at 10 college prospects -- five hitters and five pitchers -- with Week 7 performances that should have both fans' and scouts' attention.
Roch Cholowsky, SS, UCLA
The consensus No. 1 prospect in this year's Draft class, Cholowsky has been excellent this season, but his power production has recently cooled. He homered six times in his first seven games, setting a pace that no one could keep up, but has homered just once in his past 10 games and hasn't gone deep since March 15.
Since then, Cholowsky has three doubles and no other extra-base hits over seven games. Cholowsky is hitting for average and getting on base, so it's not like he's in a slump. Cholowsky is entering the biggest remaining weekend on UCLA's regular season schedule. The top-ranked Bruins host No. 10 Southern California April 3-5.
Justin Lebron, SS, Alabama
Lebron has impressed across several aspects over the first half of the season. He has shown power and is one of the best basestealers in the nation -- he's now 47-for-48 in career stolen base attempts.
But Lebron's batting average has dipped below .300, which is concerning for a player expected to hear his name called among the top five picks. It also re-ups some of the concerns scouts had coming into the year. Lebron hit .316/.421/.636 overall last season, but only .252/.341/.479 in conference play. He also struck out 26.7 percent of the time in SEC games last year. So one of evaluators' key areas of focus this year is seeing how Lebron fares in conference play.
So far, he's hitting .222/.300/.500 with three home runs in the SEC. While the batting average is down, he's also only striking out 13.3 percent of the time in SEC games. There's likely some bad luck in Lebron's batted ball data three weeks into the SEC schedule, but for teams hoping to see him show improved performance in conference play, the first three weeks haven't been a great sign.
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Jackson Flora, RHP, UC Santa Barbara
A year after UCSB's Tyler Bremner was the first college pitcher picked in the 2025 MLB Draft, Flora has a chance to do the same. He has emerged this spring as one of the best pitchers in the class. Facing one of his biggest challenges of the season so far against No. 19 Oregon, Flora worked around trouble, but it ran up his pitch count and he exited after 95 pitches and five innings of work. The Gauchos ultimately lost 4-0.
Flora didn't have his normal control of his 95-97 mph fastball and also struggled to locate his changeup. Against an Oregon lineup stacked with left-handed hitters, that caused issues. Flora didn't get to use his slider as much as usual as he worked around traffic.
This was UCSB's second loss this season in a Flora start. It matched his shortest outing of the season, and also tied his most walks and fewest strikeouts in a start.
Vahn Lackey, C, Georgia Tech
Arguably the biggest riser in the first half of the college season, Lackey has transformed from a likely first-rounder to the top catcher and one of the best overall bats in the Draft class. He has long been known for his defense, but he's now one of the better hitters in the country as well.
Lackey had a stretch earlier this month where he homered in five straight games. He then had a seven-game homerless streak, but he ended that on Sunday with his 10th of the year in a 10-0 win over NC State.
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Liam Peterson, RHP, Florida
Peterson's season-long inconsistency has caused his Draft stock to dip. He has bounced between dominating innings and stretches where he can't find the strike zone. We saw more of the same this week.
Arkansas couldn't hit him, but it waited him out for walks. Peterson's 95-97 mph fastball touched 99 and Razorbacks hitters managed to put only two fastballs into play. But he threw only 50 percent of his 36 fastballs for strikes.
Ultimately, Peterson's slider kept the Razorbacks at bay. He threw it nearly as often as his fastball, and he finished off four of his seven strikeouts with his slider. Peterson has allowed just one hit in four of his seven starts, albeit with a 15.2 percent walk rate.
Tegan Kuhns, RHP, Tennessee
A projectable right-hander with a mid-to-upper-90s fastball that gets swings and misses up in the zone, Kuhns split his time between the bullpen and rotation as a freshman in 2025 and entered 2026 as Tennessee's Friday night starter.
Yet the Volunteers demoted Kuhns to the bullpen this week after he struggled with hard contact. He gave up three homers to UCLA on Feb. 27, then allowed one homer in each of his subsequent three starts. Kuhns doesn't walk batters, but he's found that when he's middle-middle with his 93-95 mph fastball, hitters will square it up.
Kuhns was excellent in his first relief appearance Friday against Vanderbilt but still ended up with the loss. Entering a game Vanderbilt led 2-1 heading to the bottom of the sixth, Kuhn held Vanderbilt scoreless for the next four innings while Tennessee rallied to tie the game and send it to extra innings. The Volunteers got runners to second and third in the top of the 10th but failed to score. Kuhns got a groundout, but then hit a batter and gave up a single before he was pulled in the 10th. An RBI single two batters later meant Kuhns was charged with the loss in a game where he pounded the strike zone and avoided hard contact.
Mason Edwards, LHP, Southern California
Edwards has been college baseball's most successful starting pitcher, but his outing Friday against Maryland proved he’s human. Edwards was not nearly as crisp as normal and allowed four times as many runs as he’d allowed in his first six starts. It was the first time he'd failed to work five innings in a start since May 11, 2025.
Edwards struggled to find the strike zone in the first inning. He walked the first three batters he faced and then gave up an RBI single. But a strikeout and double play helped avoid further damage. Edwards struggled again in the third as he hit a batter, then threw away a pickoff throw that allowed the runner to get to third, and then allowed him to score on a wild pitch.
An error and back-to-back singles chased Edwards from the game in the fifth.
Edwards' six walks were a season high, and he'd allowed an average of just 1.2 hits per start before this week. His ERA remains a microscopic 0.67 and he did reach double-digit strikeouts for the fifth straight start.
Ethan Norby, LHP, East Carolina
Norby's season has been a bit up and down so far, but he was in complete command against UTSA. Norby carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning, and he struck out the side in the second and fourth innings. Norby did not give up any solid contact in seven innings, and he was effective with both his 90-92 mph fastball (nine whiffs) and low-80s slider (nine whiffs).
Myles Bailey, 1B, Florida State
Bailey has some of the loudest power in the nation. But he's highlighted this week for a very unfortunate reason. He injured his leg sliding into second base on Saturday. Florida State announced on Sunday that Bailey had successful surgery, but he will miss the remainder of the 2026 season.
Bailey's 14 homers easily lead the Seminoles -- the rest of the team has combined to hit 18. The 6-foot-4, 257-pounder is a Draft-eligible sophomore, so if he so chooses, he could decide to return to school for another year to show he's fully healthy without squandering much Draft leverage.
Landon Hairston, OF, Arizona State
Rank: BA 11 (2027)
This Week: .632/.720/1.421, 13 R, 12 H, 1 2B, 5 HR, 13 RBIs, 6 BB, 1 K, 2-for-2 on SB attempts
Season Stats: .468/.553/.954, 42 R, 12 2B, 15 HRs, 45 RBI, 18 BB, 12 K, 9-for-11 on SB attempts
While this list is mostly tailored to 2026 Draft prospects, it's hard to find a hotter hitter in the country than Hairston. He has homered in four straight games and has 12 home runs this month. The son of big leaguer Scott Hairston, Landon was one of the best hitters at Arizona State last year as a freshman, but he's found another level this year.
After hitting 17 extra-base hits in 2025, he already has 15 home runs and 27 extra-base hits this season. A leadoff-hitting left fielder, Hairston manages to combine power with excellent bat to ball skills. He has more homers than strikeouts (12) so far this season.
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