Miami has scored an important win on the recruiting trail.<\/p>\n
Four-star Pearland (Texas) High defensive lineman Demarco Jenkins <\/a>gave the Hurricanes a verbal pledge following his official visit on Sunday. <\/p>\n \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,\u201d Jenkins previously told Rivals. \u201cThe defense would be great for me.\u201d<\/p>\n SMU was considered the leader for Jenkins going into official visits. However, Miami got him on campus for the first time this weekend and made him feel like a top priority.<\/p>\n Miami head coach Mario Cristobal, defensive tackles coach Damione Lewis and the rest of the staff did a great job of sealing the deal.<\/p>\n At 6-foot-3, 265 pounds, Jenkins is ranked as the No. 41 defensive lineman and No. 378 overall recruit nationally, per the Rivals Industry Ranking. He is also ranked as the No. 48 overall prospect in the state of Texas this cycle. <\/p>\n Miami now has 16 commitments in the 2027 recruiting class \u2014 Jenkins, five-star Long Beach (Calif.) Poly cornerback\u00a0Donte Wright<\/a>, five-star Miami (Fla.) Carol City wide receiver\u00a0Nick Lennear<\/a>, Top 100 Dotahn (Ala.) High cornerback\u00a0Ai\u2019King Hall<\/a>, Top 100 Garner (N.C.) High linebacker AJ Randle<\/a>, Top 100 Lombard (Ill.) Montini Catholic quarterback\u00a0Israel Abrams<\/a>, , Rivals300 Houston (Texas) Langham Creek defensive lineman\u00a0Ezekiel Ayangbile<\/a>, Rivals300 Phenix City (Ala.) Central offensive lineman\u00a0Jatori Williams<\/a>, Rivals300 Poplarville (Miss.) High running back\u00a0Ty Keys<\/a>, Rivals300 Fort Pierce (Fla.) John Carroll offensive lineman\u00a0Sean Tatum<\/a>, four-star Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Cardinal Gibbons tight end\u00a0Demarcus Deroche<\/a>, four-star Davie (Fla.) McArthur defensive back\u00a0Jaylyn Jones<\/a>, three-star Gainesville (Ga.) High offensive lineman\u00a0Tyler Ford<\/a>, three-star Key West (Fla.) High defensive lineman\u00a0Josh Johnson<\/a>, three-star Lake Worth (Fla.) Santaluces EDGE\u00a0Jayvon Dawson<\/a>\u00a0and three-star Davie (Fla.) McArthur defensive back\u00a0Sherrod Gourdine<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Miami entered the day with the No. 4 recruiting class nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami has scored an important win on the recruiting trail. Four-star Pearland (Texas) High defensive lineman Demarco Jenkins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123081,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-291245","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291245","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=291245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}