Florida lands surprise commitment from 5-star CB Jason Marshall
One of the top-30 players in the 2021 recruiting class gave Florida some good news with a surprise commitment announcement.
Miami Palmetto cornerback Jason Marshall announced his commitment to Dan Mullen’s Gators on Sunday via his Twitter account. The 6-2, 180-pound Marshall is rated 5-stars, the No. 2 cornerback, No. 7 recruit in Florida and No. 29 prospect overall nationally who is set to play in the Under Armour All-America postseason high school all-star game. Quarterbacks coach Brian Johnson, UF’s Miami-area recruiter, and cornerbacks coach Torrian Gray led the staff’s recruitment of Marshall.
Marshall’s announcement surprised many Gator fans. On 247Sports, 6 recruiting experts submitted Crystal Ball predictions with 5 high-confidence picks for Miami and one medium-confidence pick for Alabama. On Rivals, all 14 FutureCast predictions since Aug. 1 for Marshall had him going to the hometown Hurricanes.
Miami Palmetto has been in the recruiting spotlight throughout the 2021 recruiting cycle and even more so lately. Earlier this week, 5-star Palmetto defensive lineman Leonard Taylor committed to UM over UF. Palmetto 4-star safety Corey Collier is set to announce his commitment on Monday. Collier is down to a final 3 of Florida, LSU and Miami.
Unsurprisingly, Marshall is the highest-rated commitment in Florida’s 2021 recruiting class which moved up 3 spots from No. 12 to No. 9 on the Composite. The Gators now have 24 pledges in the class.
Marshall’s junior season Hudl highlight tape and commitment announcement can each be viewed below:
Nice pull.
Outstanding! Great pick up.
Uh oh corch may go into hiding over this……. we can only hope.
You’ll only hear from the ones with some class. The others won’t or can’t make a positive comment about this great pickup for Mullen and staff
I must say I was shocked by this great news. I thought he was going to go with Taylor to Miami after his tweet when Taylor committed to Miami. Sure seemed that way. But so glad Marshall is coming to Gainesville instead. And really glad Florida beat Bama for Marshall. Dan Mullen, the five-star, four-star, and three-star recruiting machine. Go Gators.
LFG!!!!!! Bout time we had an unexpected recruit commit to us. Too often, it has been the opposite.
Unless we want to act like the pups, it really doesn’t mean that much. Win a title and then I’m impressed. Win a recruiting title….not so much
You win titles with good players. This is a big deal.
It takes good players, good coaching, and some lucky breaks along the way to win titles. Im not one to put too much stock in 16-17 year old kids and their evaluations. Besides, by the time we play another football game in the Fall of 2021, who knows what all will have transpired.
You mean Spring of 2021?
I don’t even feel like picking on Mullet anymore, this year football just ain’t gonna happen so it just don’t matter. Recruiting and commits mean little this year as I believe this pandemic will continue to result in many many flips and many many transfers…
I’ll just say congrats for now on one heck of 5* commit…
I could see a scenario where a few conferences and teams completely shut down, but a few others decide they want to keep going. The SEC still contends that they will have a season with or without the NCAA. There’s a mild possibility that we would still have an SEC championship and not a national football playoff
Leghumper, at this point I fear you are correct. I’m not optimistic that this season gets played.
Agree
He is just a 5* so that is not closing the gap. I wanted to get that in so the triumvirate of UGA idiots may not. Looks like a great pickup. Congrats Gators.
Steele then committed to Oregon and flipped again to USC. He would have left Florida no matter who his roommate was at the time. And Jones was not a rapist. He was accosted but never convicted. But Mullen shipped his poor character out anyway.
Florida has pulled in 5 star corners before. The hard part is gonna be who they should room him with. That didn’t work out so well last time.
Chris Steele was a 4 star. Still, we shouldn’t put him with a rapist.
He was a 5 on Rivals, but yeah a 4 composite. Just be careful with this one lol. Steele, Elam and this kid would have been impossible to pass on.
The fact that you think Steele wouldn’t have transferred whether he was put in the same room with that kid or not is pretty funny. I think it’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that he wanted to be closer to home. The only thing they need to be careful with is recruiting west coast kids and making sure they’re truly comfortable moving that far away from home.
Not true Joe.
Mullet flew out to apologize to his parents personally, why do that if it wasn’t the reason?
Let me share a quote with you and you can guess who said it…
Your last name as a man is with you forever and transcends death, when the name is associated with something so appalling you have to take a stand…
Yeah and a few days before saying that, he was saying how happy he was his son was playing for Mullen even while the kid was rooming with Jones.
So Joe is correct about the real reason for the transfer
What’s he supposed to say? It was known that it was a huge reason he transferred but okay.
Leghumper. Mullen flew to California to try to keep Steele on the roster, not apologize to the parents. He may have apologized for Jones’ behavior, but that was not the reason for the trip. It was also a recruiting trip to California.
Joe, TheReal, & Nature…please stop. just stop. Steele left because Jones is a lowlife roommate. No one could have guessed he would do something like that. Whether that gave Steele his “out” or whatever is something that honestly doesn’t matter.
Agreed instag8r…regardless of what university we’re talking about, JJ = scumbag…
For those inquiring minds that want to know…the quote was from Chris Steele’s father
Yeah, everyone knows his father said that. Everyone knows that Jones was (is?) A scumbag. Everyone knows that Mullen flew out to talk to the family. Here’s what we don’t know:
Would he have transferred anyway? Was he just homesick and looking for an out? It appears so, unless of course he had the horrible fortune to get another scummy roommate at Oregon….
Nice pick up Gators. Congrats.
Just picked up the commitment of his 5* teammate. Now if we could just have games again