Miami has surged into the Top 5 in the Rivals Industry national team recruiting rankings.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes added a big piece to the puzzle when five-star Long Beach (Calif.) Poly cornerback Donte Wright<\/a> flipped his commitment from Georgia to Miami on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n With Wright now in the fold, Miami moved up six spots from No. 11 to No. 5 in the rankings.<\/p>\n Miami surged past Notre Dame, LSU, Oregon, Florida and Ohio State and boasts the No. 1 recruiting class in the ACC. The Hurricanes are less than a point behind No. 4 ranked USC. <\/p>\n At 6-foot-1, 175 pounds, Wright is ranked as the No. 2 cornerback and No. 8 overall prospect nationally, per the Rivals Industry Ranking.<\/p>\n Miami now has 11 commitments in the 2027 recruiting class \u2014 Wright, five-star Miami (Fla.) Carol City wide receiver\u00a0Nick Lennear<\/a>, Top 100 Lombard (Ill.) Montini Catholic quarterback\u00a0Israel Abrams<\/a>, , Rivals300 Houston (Texas) Langham Creek defensive lineman\u00a0Ezekiel Ayangbile<\/a>, Rivals300 Poplarville (Miss.) High running back\u00a0Ty Keys<\/a>, Rivals300 Fort Pierce (Fla.) John Carroll offensive lineman\u00a0Sean Tatum<\/a>, four-star Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Cardinal Gibbons tight end\u00a0Demarcus Deroche<\/a>, four-star Davie (Fla.) McArthur defensive back\u00a0Jaylyn Jones<\/a>, three-star Gainesville (Ga.) High offensive lineman\u00a0Tyler Ford<\/a>, three-star Key West (Fla.) High defensive lineman\u00a0Josh Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and three-star Davie (Fla.) McArthur defensive back\u00a0Sherrod Gourdine<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n Miami entered the day with the No. 12 recruiting class nationally.<\/p>\n Miami will have a chance to keep moving up the rankings as it gears up to host several top targets for official visits this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami has surged into the Top 5 in the Rivals Industry national team recruiting rankings. The Hurricanes added…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-634233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634233","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=634233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}