{"id":296093,"date":"2026-06-04T18:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296093\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:07:22","slug":"what-to-know-about-4-star-wisconsin-football-commit-mekhi-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296093\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about 4-star Wisconsin football commit Mekhi Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Wisconsin cornerbacks coach Robert Steeples now has two projected cornerbacks as part of the Badgers\u2019 2027 class. Credit: Jake Kocorowski\/Badger Observer<\/p>\n

The good vibes from the University of Wisconsin football program\u2019s first weekend of official visits continued as a consensus four-star recruit declares his intentions to head to Madison.<\/p>\n

Defensive back Mekhi Williams, who plays for Ruskin Lennard in Florida, announced Wednesday via 247Sports<\/a> that he committed to Wisconsin. That outlet<\/a> currently evaluates him as the No. 10 player in the state of Florida and No. 105 overall player in the nation for the 2027 class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was building a relationship with the coaches, and the relationship between us was just strong. I couldn\u2019t turn that down,\u201d Williams told 247Sports. \u201cAnd the academic programs right there are just great. So that was the reason why I chose Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to know about Williams, who is now part of a 17-player class for Wisconsin that is ranked among the top 25 programs in the nation for this recruiting cycle.<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 height and length, which is listed as 6 foot 2 and 169 pounds on Hudl<\/a>, fits the mold of what Wisconsin has looked for at the cornerback position during coach Luke Fickell\u2019s time in Madison.<\/p>\n

247Sports<\/a> and On3\u2019s<\/a> profiles of Williams both show him designated as a safety, though according to a source, the program currently envisions him at the boundary corner spot. But he\u2019s been used all over the field for Ruskin Lennard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wisconsin cornerbacks coach Robert Steeples now has two projected cornerbacks as part of the Badgers\u2019 2027 class. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-296093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296093","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=296093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}