{"id":795679,"date":"2026-03-06T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:11:13","slug":"elite-2027-wr-nick-lennear-commits-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795679\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite 2027 WR Nick Lennear commits to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/northwestern-miami-fl-3463\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northwestern<\/a> four-star wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/nick-lennear-175412\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Lennear<\/a> has committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/miami-hurricanes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He chose the Hurricanes over the likes of Syracuse, Nebraska, LSU and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Lennear is the No. 31 overall prospect and No. 5 WR in the 2027 cycle, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/rankings\/industry-player\/football\/2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivals Industry Ranking<\/a>, a weighted average that utilizes all major recruiting media companies. He\u2019s also the No. 4 junior in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals ranks the 6-foot, 165-pounder higher than other recruiting services. He checks in as the No. 19 recruit, No. 3 wideout and No. 4 player in the Sunshine State, per the Rivals300.<\/p>\n<p>Miami began to trend for Lennear after he returned to Coral Gables to watch the Hurricanes\u2019 season-opening win over Notre Dame. Spending plenty of time around campus, Lennear is ready to stay home and lock in with the ACC program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis weekend showed me Miami is building something special,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/news\/miami-mario-cristobal-top-recruits-win-notre-dame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lennear told Rivals\u2019 Steve Wiltfong after the visit<\/a>. \u201cCoach Cristobal\u2019s vision, the energy around the program, and the way they\u2019re recruiting makes me excited to be part of bringing the Hurricanes back to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Canes continue to excel on the in-state recruiting trail and are in early position to sign a standout class in the 2027 cycle.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Northwestern four-star wide receiver Nick Lennear has committed to Miami. He chose the Hurricanes over the likes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7699,7,92091,36427],"class_list":["post-795679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-fl","tag-football","tag-nick-lennear-27-northwestern","tag-northwestern-bulls-miami"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116181223915869544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}