The Florida Gators picked up their 19th\u00a0commitment of the Class of 2027 on Wednesday afternoon from one of the official visitors they hosted on campus last weekend.\n<\/p>\n
Defensive lineman Zahmar Tookes (6-4, 255, Rochester, NY. Brighton) committed to Florida over Penn State, Georgia, and Nebraska on Saturday, just hours after he left campus from his official visit.\n<\/p>\n
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Tookes took his official visit to Gainesville last weekend after he visited campus in March where he was able to watch spring practice and meet the coaching staff.\n<\/p>\n
The Gators got in Tookes\u2019 recruitment late and had to make up ground on Penn State and Nebraska but defensive line coach Gerald Chatman and defensive coordinator Brad White built a strong relationship with the New York native.\n<\/p>\n
Tookes is a defensive lineman that can move around and play several different roles in the Gators\u2019 defense and that was something that sold the staff on his ability.\n<\/p>\n
As a junior Tookes accounted for 77 tackles, 10 tackles for a loss, 3 sacks, and he also caused a fumble as he helped lead his high school to an 11-3 record.\n<\/p>\n
Tookes is the fourth defensive line commit in the class as he joins Cain Van Norden, De\u2019Voun Kendrick, and Stive-Bentley Keumajou as defensive linemen committed to the Gators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Gators picked up their 19th\u00a0commitment of the Class of 2027 on Wednesday afternoon from one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-295528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295528","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=295528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}