{"id":295506,"date":"2026-06-04T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295506\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:18:15","slug":"five-star-edge-rusher-jaiden-bryant-flips-commitment-from-lsu-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295506\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-star edge rusher Jaiden Bryant flips commitment from LSU to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Makena Wong, Photo Editor, Junior Defensive End Rueben Bain Jr. celebrates after interception on Sunday, Aug. 31st, 2025.<\/p>\n

The Miami Hurricanes received another massive boost to their 2027 class as five-star defensive end Jaiden Bryant has flipped his commitment to Miami from LSU.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bryant committed to the Tigers in January but, in the months following Miami had slowly chipped away at LSU\u2019s hold over the South Carolina native.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hints slowly dropped at Miami catching up with Bryant posting workout videos rocking Canes<\/a> gear after multiple visits to Coral Gables first during Miami\u2019s \u201cSpring Splash\u201d and most recently its opening official visit weekend.<\/p>\n

During that visit, Bryant was very complimentary of Miami and after months ago being committed to the Tigers \u2014 his tone changed.<\/p>\n

During an interview with Miami Hurricane Sports Editor Sebastian Font for CanesInSight he said<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s really just Miami and LSU in this race.\u201d<\/p>\n

And a race that had LSU near the finish line, suddenly saw Miami creeping up in the background.<\/p>\n

Days after that visit to Miami he made it official today. In a tweet this afternoon Bryant stated, \u201cRecruiting Shut Down!!<\/a>\u201d sealing the deal that Miami will add another five star to the 2027 class.<\/p>\n

A driving point for Bryant seemed to be the development plan that the Canes\u2019 presented particularly for defensive linemen like himself. Bryant noted the 2026 draft for the Canes\u2019 with Reuben Bain and Akheem Mesidor both landing in the first round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely heavy knowing they got two first rounders with the same coach,\u201d he said<\/a> to Font during his visit this weekend. \u201cThat\u2019s definitely a key piece to my recruitment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listed at 6-foot-3, 260 pounds according to ON3, Jaiden Bryant brings a big physical presence for a Miami program that places emphasis on building through the trenches.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Among many high level traits the one that stands out the most from his 247 evaluation is this line<\/a>, \u201cThick edge defender that creates negative plays with his twitch, power and a relentless motor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That showed up in games with the defensive end racking up over 160 tackles and 36 tackles for loss over his last two seasons.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s another big flip for Miami which has been a trend over recent weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First it was Georgia commit five-star Donte Wright<\/a> and Oregon four-star Ai\u2019King Hall flipping to Miami and now Bryant adds to a Miami 2027 class that sits at third in the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miami likely isn\u2019t done with flips, with the Canes heavily pursuing Ohio State five-star edge DJ Jacobs for months and recent USC decommit four-star wide receiver Eli Woodard has been seen touting Canes gear during that same official visit weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And with five-star and 2027\u2019s top linebacker Kaden Henderson yet to commit, Miami\u2019s stacked class could easily continue to get better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Makena Wong, Photo Editor, Junior Defensive End Rueben Bain Jr. celebrates after interception on Sunday, Aug. 31st, 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-295506","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\/295506","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=295506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}