This kid being a EE is major.
Wish he could EE right now.
Do you know how many EE slots are available this cycle?
EE slots are no less limited than signing on NSD, whether or not you count towards the previous year's numbers is a question to be had but it doesn't prevent you from being an actual EE.
Although I believe you can only have 85 total players on scholarship per semester as well. Which means if you're at 85 scholarships in the fall, you can bring in 1 EE for every guy who either graduates or transfers before the spring semester.
USC had this issue several years ago when something happened and they miscounted the number of guys graduating in December against the overall scholarship reductions from sanctions, and then couldn't bring one of their commits in as an EE. They were on probation and were trying to stack as many EE's as possible to back count, because they could only have 15 per class. It ended up costing them a scholarship when they were already paper thin. Nobody realizes, but Kiffins last year there, they only had something like 58 scholarship players.