{"id":5944,"date":"2025-10-16T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:52:08","slug":"unc-flips-four-star-cb-kenton-dopson-from-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5944\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Flips Four-Star CB Kenton Dopson from Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-star cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/kenton-dopson-238598\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenton Dopson<\/a> switched his commitment from Miami to North Carolina on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In early August, UNC offered Dopson, a 6-foot-1, 190-pounder from Miami (Fla.) Norland High. Immediately, he looked to visit Chapel Hill, ultimately taking an official visit last month for the Richmond game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisit was amazing,\u201d Dopson told On3\u2019s Steve Wiltfong. \u201cWhat continues to excite me is that they continue to stress there\u2019s a need for me, the fact that they graduate both starting corners and being coached by the GOAT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dGameday, facilities, dorms, dinner, Sunday practice, and just about every aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rivals Industry Ranking ranks Dopson as the No. 170 recruit and No. 21 cornerback in the nation, and the No. 24 prospect in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after receiving his UNC offer, Dopson began the process of reclassifying from the class of 2027 to 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-March, Dopson committed to hometown Miami over Georgia, Auburn, Penn State, Florida State, Nebraska, Texas A&amp;M, and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to use high school recruiting as a cornerstone of the program,\u201d UNC general manager Mike Lombardi said a couple weeks ago. \u201cWe want this \u201926 class to have to ultimately be two classes, so we can add some of the fill-in, some of the gaps that we had in the roster in terms of prior years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/north-carolina-tar-heels\/football\/2026\/industry-comparison-commits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 recruiting class now has 37 commitments<\/a>, and is ranked the No. 18 haul in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-star cornerback Kenton Dopson switched his commitment from Miami to North Carolina on Wednesday. In early August, UNC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6524,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-kenton-dopson-27-norland","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","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=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}