{"id":204328,"date":"2026-03-24T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204328\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:26:13","slug":"miami-adds-another-piece-to-growing-2027-recruiting-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204328\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami adds another piece to growing 2027 recruiting class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key West (Fla.) three-star defensive lineman\u00a0Josh Johnson<\/a> knew he wanted to stay in the Sunshine State to play his college football. The question was where.<\/p>\n

He answered it on Tuesday, announcing his commitment to Miami<\/a> over the in-state rival Florida Gators. The Hurricanes had been considered the heavy favorite after visits over the winter, but Florida\u2019s new staff made things interesting with a visit to Gainesville earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately though, the proximity to home and his relationship with the coaching staff won out.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-5, 260-pounder also had offers from Iowa, Nebraska, Georgia Tech, Louisville and a host of others. He is the sixth commitment early in the cycle for Mario Cristobal and Co. and just the second on the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n

His addition is also the first along the defensive line in this class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m primarily going to play the three-tech, but I\u2019m also going to be able to play the field end kind of position,\u201d he told Holland. \u201cI\u2019ll be doing a little bit of both. Just when I\u2019m needed and what\u2019s needed. I would mainly play three-tech, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hurricanes eyeing another top-10 class<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the \u2018Canes beat out a host of national powers for borderline five-star wideout Nick Lennear<\/a>, who Johnson was actually on a visit with when he announced his decision.<\/p>\n

The Miami Carol City star pushed the class up to No. 8 nationally and was the fourth blue-chipper to commit, joining safety Jaylyn Jones<\/a>, tight end Demarcus Deroche<\/a>, and wideout Ah\u2019Mari Stevens<\/a>. Miami also has it eyes on another local standout in touted North Miami Beach safety Andre Hyppolite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Multiple predictions have gone in favor of Miami since his visit to campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe environment with the coaches was great,\u201d\u00a0Hyppolite told Wiltfong of his visit<\/a>. \u201cThey made me feel like I belonged there and were very welcoming. What excites me about a opportunity to play for The U is that it\u2019ll just be a great thing to do putting on for my city and not being too far from the people closet to me. What excites me about the U is Coach (Will) Harris, he\u2019s a great guy. Definitely knows what he\u2019s talking about when it comes to the game and just a great honest person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key West (Fla.) three-star defensive lineman\u00a0Josh Johnson knew he wanted to stay in the Sunshine State to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37869,2530,4027,24660,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-204328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-defensive-lineman","tag-florida-gators","tag-georgia-tech","tag-josh-johnson","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}