{"id":263876,"date":"2026-05-08T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:07:18","slug":"miami-lands-a-commitment-from-4-star-dl-ezekiel-ayangbile-im-the-missing-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263876\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami lands a commitment from 4-star DL Ezekiel Ayangbile: ‘I’m the missing piece’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami<\/a> has added a big piece to its 2027 recruiting class.<\/p>\n

Four-star defensive lineman Ezekiel Ayangbile<\/a> has declared for the Hurricanes \u2014 just a few weeks removed from his spring visits, including his first trip to see Miami.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had love for Miami. I love the vibe and a lot of things about the school,\u201d Ayangbile told Rivals. \u201cThe biggest thing with Miami is how dominant their DL is and how bad they wanna coach me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Miami staff has made that exceedingly clear to the No. 15 DL in the country by way of Houston (Texas) Langham Creek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the entire coaching staff \u2026 not just my position coach, not just the head coach, but the entire coaching staff,\u201d Ayangbile continued. \u201cThey\u2019ve been extremely supportive and tell me I\u2019m wanted \u2014 that I was the missing piece for them. The position coach was shooting for me extremely hard since they recruited recruiting me and their track record is definitely one of the best, if not, the best at my position. Position development and playing at the highest level, I saw it all. They\u2019re putting kids in the first round. I saw a very small amount of negatives in making this decision, if any, in my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

After visiting Miami this spring, the Rivals300 DL raved about his time around Damione Lewis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lewis was back in Houston when coaches returned to the road with Langham Creek among his first stops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are plenty of opportunities there, I love the people and the campus, and I have a good connection with several of the players,\u201d he has said. \u201cEvery last one of the coaches, they\u2019re great people I can genuinely be myself around and who\u2019ll embrace me as a player and person. Coach Lewis went in-home with me and recently came down to talk to me. He told me that I play like a Hurricane, I move like a Hurricane, I act like a Hurricane \u2026 That\u2019s an excellent group of players and coaches. I love the way theyve embraced me and how Coach Cristobal texts me every day. They\u2019re chasing greatness, and it\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami has added a big piece to its 2027 recruiting class. Four-star defensive lineman Ezekiel Ayangbile has declared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[113772,113773,123,125,124,8503],"class_list":["post-263876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-ezekiel-ayangbile-27-langham-creek","tag-langham-creek-lobos-houston","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263876","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=263876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}