{"id":295199,"date":"2026-06-04T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295199\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:43:09","slug":"lsu-sees-5-star-edge-defender-decommit-flip-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295199\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU sees 5-star edge defender decommit, flip to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaiden Bryant was one of the first big 2027 commitments for \u2018s staff. On Wednesday, Bryant revealed that he no longer plans to begin his college football career at .<\/p>\n<p>Bryant is now committed to Mario Cristobal\u2019s Miami Hurricanes. He made the announcement on social media with help from Hayes Fawcett of Rivals.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: Sports betting is live in Louisiana! Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/sports-betting\/betmgm-bonus-code\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/sports-betting\/betmgm-bonus-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BetMGM bonus code<\/a> and sign up today!<\/p>\n<p>Out of Columbia (South Carolina) Irmo High School, Bryant is listed as measuring 6-3 and 260 pounds. On the 247Sports Composite, Bryant is rated 5-stars, the No. 1 player in the state of South Carolina, No. 2 edge defender and No. 20 prospect overall in the Class of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of Bryant means LSU sits at 4 verbal commitments. All 4 prospects are rated 4- or 5-stars. The small class size, though, has the class at No. 61 nationally on the Composite.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes now have 18 commitments in a class that ranks No. 3 overall on the Composite.<\/p>\n<p>Lane Kiffin and Mario Cristobal both coached teams that qualified for the College Football Playoff last season. Will they get back this December? Predict this year\u2019s qualifiers on <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kalshi Trading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/link\/kalshi-trading\/\" data-nojs=\"1\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Kalshi<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded-full mx-auto sm:m-0 grayscale aspect-square perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"Andrew Olson\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a2d68e0571f909e1561fb3655fe067b996acfde074a03410b085b5d482521547.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm mt-4\">Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaiden Bryant was one of the first big 2027 commitments for \u2018s staff. On Wednesday, Bryant revealed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-295199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295199","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=295199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}