Jacksonville State added a huge defensive piece to its 2026 recruiting class on Monday.<\/p>\n
Central-Phenix City defender Tristan Lyles announced his commitment to the Gamecocks and head coach Monday, adding to a growing 2026 class for head coach Charles Kelly.<\/p>\n
Lyles picked the Gamecocks over offers from Auburn, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, West Virginia, Colorado, UAB, Troy, UTSA, FAU and more.<\/p>\n
The linebacker was previously committed to Appalachian State.<\/p>\n
As a senior, Lyles finished with 84 tackles (69 solo), 32 tackles for loss, 20 sacks, 13 hurries and five forced fumbles as Central-Phenix City finished its season in the Class 7A state semifinals.<\/p>\n
Lyles finished his high school career with 237 tackles (165 solo), 47 sacks and 13 forced fumbles.<\/p>\n
He was named a MaxPreps sophomore All-American in the 2023 football season after helping lead the Red Devils to a Class 7A championship.<\/p>\n
Lyles is a consensus 3-star prospect as is rated by 247Sports as the No. 45 prospect in the state of Alabama for the 2026 class.<\/p>\n
Jax State (8-4) will host Kennesaw State in the Conference USA championship game on Friday. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. at AmFirst Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State added a huge defensive piece to its 2026 recruiting class on Monday. Central-Phenix City defender Tristan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39433,1745,116,118,117,110],"class_list":["post-67566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-ahsaa","tag-high-school-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67566","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=67566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}