The Miami Hurricanes’ 2027 recruiting class has already forced its way into rare company.
It’s still not finished, but the group has been built on a run of headline flips from SEC heavyweights and a trio of five-star names that have pushed Miami into the national elite. Donte Wright came over from Georgia, Jaiden Bryant flipped from LSU, and Ai’King Hall landed with the Hurricanes after starting with Oregon. Once those moves were in place, all 19 commits shut down their recruitments and locked in with “The U.”
Miami did miss on local offensive tackle Mark Matthews, who chose Texas A&M, but the class kept rolling anyway. Even with fewer commitments than Florida and Oklahoma, the Hurricanes sit third in the national rankings on both 247Sports and On3.
Rivals has Miami in a more exclusive neighborhood: one of eight schools with multiple five-star commits. Texas A&M is out front with six.
The class is headlined by local receiver Nick Lennear, and his numbers back up the billing. After three seasons at Northwestern High School, a public four-year school in Miami-Dade County, he totaled 62 catches for 1,090 yards and 19 total touchdowns in 22 games. Lennear is a top-20 recruit, ranked fourth among wide receivers and second in Florida.
Bryant and Wright join him as the Hurricanes’ other five-stars, and both were major gets for a class that already looks loaded on defense. Bryant should fit right into the pass-rush pipeline Miami has been building, with defensive coordinator Corey Hetherman and defensive line coach Jason Taylor waiting to work with him.
The Hurricanes just had Akheem Mesidor and All-American Rueben Bain Jr. as two of college football’s most productive edge rushers, and Bryant brings a huge high school résumé to follow that path. In three seasons at Irmo High School in Lexington County, South Carolina, he piled up 204 total tackles, 106 solo tackles, 98 assists, 41 tackles for loss, 27.5 sacks, 15 hurries and a 25-yard interception in 34 games.
Bryant is a top-30 recruit, fifth among edge rushers and the top player in South Carolina.
Wright is the highest-ranked prospect in Miami’s 2027 class. As a junior at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, he posted 25 total tackles, 17 solos, seven assists, 3.5 tackles for loss and three sacks in seven games. He’s a top-10 recruit, the second-ranked cornerback and the best player in California.
Coming off the National Championship game, Miami was able to stack several elite talents into one class. That kind of haul gives “The U” a much brighter look in the near future.
In Other News...
Miami Just Lost A Chaminade-Madonna Playmaker To A Bitter Rival
A familiar South Florida recruiting name came off the board with a choice that will sting plenty of people around Coral Gables. Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna wide receiver Armani Strong, a four-star prospect in the 2028 class, is headed to Florida after drawing serious attention from Miami, USC, Notre Dame and Michigan, giving the Gators an early win in a battle that had plenty of local significance for the Hurricanes.
For Miami, the miss is especially notable because Strong has long been part of the South Florida talent stream the program works so hard to keep home. He enters the cycle as one of the more highly regarded receivers in the country and in Florida, while Floridas new staff under Jon Sumrall gets its first commitment of the 2028 class. Even this early, the recruiting board is already starting to show which battles the Hurricanes can afford to lose and which ones they probably cannot. [Read more 🡒]
EA Sports Just Sent Miami Fans A Clear Message About This Roster
EA Sports latest College Football 27 ratings offer a pretty clear snapshot of where Miami sits in the national conversation heading into the games July 9 launch. The Hurricanes come in at 88 overall, tied with LSU and Ole Miss and trailing a group that includes Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana, Notre Dame and Texas, which is the kind of placement that suggests respect without quite reaching the sports top shelf.
The bigger takeaway for Miami fans is how much talent the roster carries beneath that team number. The Hurricanes have 15 players rated 85 or better, with the group split across both sides of the ball, a sign that this is not just a team built around a few headline names. Early access opens July 6 for eligible players, so plenty of fans will be getting their first close look at how the roster is stacked and where the game thinks Miamis strengths really lie. [Read more 🡒]
Miami Just Lost Ground In A Key 2027 Recruiting Battle
Miamis push for one of the countrys top 2027 tight ends hit a setback this week when Anthony Cartwright III came off the board after a recruiting process that had included a look at Coral Gables. The Detroit Country Day standout had taken official visits to Miami and Oregon in June, and his profile as a Rivals four-star prospect made him a priority name for a Hurricanes staff trying to build early momentum in the class.
Cartwrights decision matters for Miami because he had been one of the marquee targets on the board at his position, and the Hurricanes had spent June trying to make a strong impression on him. His final group also included Michigan, LSU and Michigan State, so the interest was broad and the competition was real, but Miami now has to turn the page and keep working a tight end board that was already starting to take shape. [Read more 🡒]