{"id":731937,"date":"2026-06-29T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731937\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:38:17","slug":"florida-lands-first-2028-commitment-from-4-star-wr-armani-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731937\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lands first 2028 commitment from 4-star WR Armani Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/chaminade-madonna-prep-hollywood-fl-19503\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaminade-Madonna Prep<\/a> (Fla.) four-star wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/armani-strong-284115\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armani Strong<\/a> has committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/florida-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a>. He becomes the Gators\u2019 first pledge in the 2028 recruiting cycle.<\/p>\n<p>He chose head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/jon-sumrall-131272\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Sumrall<\/a> and UF over Miami and Florida State, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Strong is the No. 210 overall prospect and No. 31 WR in the 2028 cycle, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/rankings\/industry-player\/football\/2028\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals Industry Ranking<\/a>, a weighted average that utilizes all major recruiting media companies. He\u2019s also the No. 29 junior in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/join\/?utm_source=publisher&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=subscriber_referral&amp;ref=443916\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> $19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coverage <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1, 180-pounder made his way to Gainesville for a camp and Florida\u2019s \u201cGrill in the Ville\u201d recruiting cookout earlier this month. After spending some time around the new-look SEC program, Strong is making an early commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Playing for one of the top high school football programs in Florida and the nation, Strong is gearing up for a huge junior campaign this fall. Rivals\u2019 high school analyst Andy Villamarzo has more on Chaminade-Madonna Prep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/news\/chaminade-madonna-fla-football-aims-to-gel-ahead-of-2026-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>Like this story0Share article<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleLikeBar_meta__MY_jU\">Members only \u00b7 one like per member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaminade-Madonna Prep (Fla.) four-star wide receiver Armani Strong has committed to Florida. He becomes the Gators\u2019 first pledge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[315143,44766,622,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-731937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-armani-strong-28-chaminade-madonna-prep","tag-chaminade-madonna-prep-lions-hollywood","tag-fl","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731937","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=731937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}