{"id":455053,"date":"2026-02-07T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455053\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:09:08","slug":"louisville-lands-a-commitment-from-a-top-of-the-board-dl-target-cornelius-tims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455053\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville lands a commitment from a top-of-the-board DL target Cornelius Tims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers (Fla.) South Fort Myers defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/cornelius-tims-260517\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius Tims<\/a> has committed to Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals were first to extend a scholarship back in May and now he chooses to play for head coach Jeff Brohm and the Cardinals over an offer list that included USF, UCF, Kansas, West Virginia and Boston College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLouisville has been a dream school for me,\u201d Sims told Rivals. \u201c Ever since my freshman year, I have old pictures of me dreaming of getting an offer from Louisville. It was everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like home when I visited there last spring, everything was there for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Ivey was the lead recruiter for Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and Coach Ivey built a good relationship,\u201d Tims said. \u201cThey built a trust with me. It\u2019s like a bond that can\u2019t be broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a junior the 6-foot-4, 285-pound Sims had 74 tackles, 11 stops for loss and six sacks. He recovered two fumbles and forced one. He was one of the most coveted players for Louisville in this 2027 class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re going to go all the way,\u201d Tims said of Louisville\u2019s potential. \u201cThey\u2019re going to get a dog out of me. I can\u2019t wait to be developed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLouisville is my home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tims said he\u2019ll be back on the Cardinals campus in the spring with several of his teammates. He adds to a class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/louisville-cardinals\/football\/2027\/commits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals ranks No. 11 nationally early in the 2027 cycle.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Myers (Fla.) South Fort Myers defensive lineman Cornelius Tims has committed to Louisville. The Cardinals were first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[212832,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-455053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-cornelius-tims-27-south-fort-myers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}