{"id":249355,"date":"2026-04-28T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:29:26","slug":"florida-adds-more-trench-power-with-a-tampa-area-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249355\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida adds more trench power with a Tampa-area commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5o\">One of Jon Sumrall&#8217;s priorities since arriving at Florida has been to continue to beef up the trenches. Florida landed a splash on the offensive line when it got five-star prospect Maxwell Hiller to commit, and there might be more along the way.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">On Monday, Sumrall landed his first defensive lineman of the class of 2027 with a prospect from Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>De&#8217;Voun Kendrick commits to Florida<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5x\">De\u2019Voun Kendrick has committed to Florida. The defensive lineman is listed at 6\u20194\u201d and 300 pounds; both Rivals and 247 have him as a three-star, while ESPN has him unrated. Based out of Tampa\u2019s Carrollwood Day School, Kendrick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudl.com\/video\/3\/19903994\/694227a1a9640db9072a4f5c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">film shows<\/a> that he is a player opponents game-plan around.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">In half the clips, it seems like he is getting double-teamed half the time and he still has the raw power to come out of them and make an impact on the play. And when teams miss their blocking assignments and give Kendrick a free runway to the QB, he will hit with some force.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"63\">He does still need to refine his disengagement moves, and the three-star rating is completely fair, but as the saying goes, he does have size that doesn\u2019t grow on trees, and it\u2019s not unreasonable to think he could be a 350-pound stopgap in the middle of Florida\u2019s line in the future.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Class of 2027 DL De\u2019Voun Kendrick has Committed to Florida, he tells me for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rivals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Rivals<\/a>\u2070<br \/>The 6\u20194 330 DL from Tampa, FL chose the Gators over Texas A&amp;M, Georgia Tech, and Louisville\u2070\u2070\u201cBoutta shock the world.\u201d\u2070\u2070<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dyjaCUWbgz\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/dyjaCUWbgz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jmcpr42YHO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jmcpr42YHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayesfawcett3\/status\/2048825827912008023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Louisville is probably the most notable team that was going after Kendrick, as they were the only other team he had an official visit lined up this summer. Texas A&amp;M, Auburn, and UCF are among the teams that have also made offers since January.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\">Kendrick is the 9th commit for Florida for the class of 2027. In the 247 rankings, the Gators are now 12th, and Rivals has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/rankings\/industry-team\/football\/2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida in 8th<\/a>. With more potential commits coming down the pipeline, it\u2019s not unreasonable to think Sumrall is going to finish his first full cycle with a top ten class, and with a massive summer, he could even sneak into the top five.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow hailfloridahail.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=hailfloridahail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Jon Sumrall&#8217;s priorities since arriving at Florida has been to continue to beef up the trenches.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-249355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249355","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=249355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}