{"id":563454,"date":"2026-04-04T04:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:32:17","slug":"national-reporters-see-hoosiers-closing-on-4-star-2027-cb-others-the-daily-hoosier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563454\/","title":{"rendered":"National reporters see Hoosiers closing on 4-star 2027 CB, others \u2013 The Daily Hoosier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana has a chance to close one of the top cornerbacks in the high school recruiting class of 2027 soon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Steve Wiltfong of Rivals, who joined his national recruiting analyst counterpart Allen Trieu at the outlet with a prediction the Hoosiers will land 4-star (East St. Louis H.S., East St. Louis, Ill.) Raheem Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Wiltfong disclosed that prediction <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Dde5dh_C2Es\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on a recent Rivals podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd has an April official visit scheduled to Bloomington, and both Wiltfong and Trieu believe there\u2019s a good chance Floyd will commit this spring.<\/p>\n<p>According to the national average, Floyd is a 4-star prospect, the No. 182 overall player in the 2027 class, and the No. 22 cornerback.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd\u2019s offer list includes Wisconsin, Ole Miss, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas State, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Kentucky, West Virginia and Purdue.<\/p>\n<p>On a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NKHcNdvVv2c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">separate Rivals podcast<\/a>, Trieu shared more insights on other 2027 IU football targets:<\/p>\n<p>He says Alabama and IU are the main schools for 5-star wide receiver Monshun Sales, with the Tide being the favorite, but Indiana\u2019s relationships keeping them in contention.<br \/>\nTrieu says 3-star in-state (Brownsburg H.S.) slot receiver Branden Sharpe is a heavy IU lean and could commit to the Hoosiers this spring.\u00a0 He has an IU official visit in May.<br \/>\nHe also said he believe Cincinnati, Ohio 4-star edge rusher Antwoine Higgins (No. 293 overall, No. 29 edge) will end up committing to IU.\u00a0 He has an IU official visit in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyhoosier.com\/iu-football-has-an-impressive-slate-of-2027-spring-official-visitors-scheduled\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IU football has an impressive slate of 2027 spring official visitors scheduled<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For complete coverage of IU football recruiting,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyhoosier.com\/the-latest-iu-football-recruiting-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.thedailyhoosier.com\/the-latest-iu-football-recruiting-news\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775319107421000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3sHS3Ducu4ZEgkps-DxeQc\">GO HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Hoosier\u00a0\u2013\u201cWhere Indiana fans assemble when they\u2019re not at Assembly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana has a chance to close one of the top cornerbacks in the high school recruiting class of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-563454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563454","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=563454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}