HOLLYWOOD - Miami already has Jacksonville Mandarin quarterback Knox Annis in its 2028 class, and he’s not wasting any time trying to bring his top target with him.
The receiver in question is five-star Brysen Wright, the No. 1 player in the 2028 class according to 247Sports’ composite rankings. Annis has been pressing the case for the Hurricanes for months, and he says the pitch is ongoing.
“Every day,” Annis said Friday after Mandarin knocked off McArthur in the opening game of the Broward County High School National Football Showcase. “I’m trying to get him to come every day.
… (I tell him) that really we’re building something special. The offense is going to get him the ball and … come play with me again.”
Wright didn’t exactly downplay the connection.
“He recruited me a lot. That’s my dog.”
Annis, a three-star prospect ranked as the No. 34 quarterback in the class, said his own pledge to Miami isn’t wavering.
“It stands strong,” Annis said. “The staff, what they’re building, what they do with quarterbacks that are going to the next level.”
Wright is still sorting through his choices, and Miami is very much in the mix. He said the Hurricanes are one of the teams that stands out to him, along with Florida, Ohio State and Texas. For Wright, the relationship piece matters most.
He said Miami is “one of the top” teams because of his relationship with the coaches, and he’s also thinking about more than just football when it comes time to choose a school.
“Really something I can always look back on after football,” Wright said. “Football is not always going to last. So just a place, a home, I could really count on - if football (doesn’t) work out, (a place) I can go back to.”
Wright, who lines up at safety as well as receiver, made his presence felt immediately against McArthur. He picked off a pass on the game’s opening play, later hauled in a deep ball that set up one Mandarin touchdown, and capped things with a one-handed grab for a score. As a sophomore in 2025, he posted 46 catches for 983 yards and 10 touchdowns.
“He’s unreal,” Annis said. “He does everything.”
Miami’s receiver pipeline already has plenty of momentum. The Hurricanes are expected to have star receiver Malachi Toney for one more season before he turns pro, added three four-star wideouts in last year’s recruiting class, and already hold commitments from a pair of five-star South Florida receivers, Nick Lennear and A’mir Sears, in the 2027 class.
If Wright eventually joins them in 2028, the room would get even more crowded with talent.
“Everybody already knows how (playing with Lennear and Sears) would be,” Wright said. “But we would go crazy, for sure.”
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