{"id":291188,"date":"2026-05-31T22:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291188\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:18:27","slug":"miami-lands-commitment-from-4-star-defensive-lineman-demarco-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291188\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami lands commitment from 4-star defensive lineman Demarco Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami\u2019s first official visit weekend is in the books and good news is already in.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes bolstered their star-studded 2027 recruiting class with a commitment from four-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/pearland-pearland-tx-20019\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pearland<\/a> (Texas) High School defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/demarco-jenkins-249933\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demarco Jenkins<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mario-cristobal-133857\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Cristobal<\/a> and the staff hosted the Rivals Industry Ranking No. 41 DL in America for the first time over the weekend, which vaulted Miami past TCU and SMU over the last 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visit went great,\u201d Jenkins told Rivals. \u201cI had a great time there\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Position coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/damione-lewis-148901\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damione Lewis<\/a>, a native of Texas, has been making a strong impression on Jenkins and his family since offering at the top of the spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I talk to Coach Lewis, he makes it known how much he loves his job and how passionate he is to coach me. You can hear it in the way he talks about ball,\u201d Jenkins has told Rivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was talking to the Miami coaches this weekend, and they made it known that they really like me and all he needs is one chance to show me why,\u201d he added, ahead of his official visit next weekend. \u201cThe most exciting thing about the fit is how aggressive they are up front, especially coming from a 3:3 stack having that four-man front \u2026 The defense would be great for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins is the No. 378 overall prospect in the class and the No. 48 player from the Lone Star State in the 2027 cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami\u2019s first official visit weekend is in the books and good news is already in. The Hurricanes bolstered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123081,123,125,124,123082,8503],"class_list":["post-291188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-demarco-jenkins-27-pearland","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-pearland-oilers-pearland","tag-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291188","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=291188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}