{"id":904615,"date":"2026-05-29T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/904615\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:24:25","slug":"2027-three-star-lb-brayden-watson-commits-to-michigan-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/904615\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 three-star LB Brayden Watson commits to Michigan Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Wolverines picked up their first linebacker in the 2027 recruiting class on Friday, as three-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/brayden-watson-244892\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Watson<\/a> announced his commitment to Michigan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Buford, Georgia product is listed at 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds. He picked the Wolverines over other offers from USC, Oregon, Pitt, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">New linebackers coach Alex Whittingham offered Watson in January and prioritized him throughout his recruitment. Watson visited back in April and had a lot of great things to say about his time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt was a great visit and Ann Arbor is a great place to be,\u201d Watson told <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/tmis-brice-marich-has-put-in-a-new-247sports-crystal-ball-in-favor-of-the-wolverines-286523151\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Michigan Insider\u2019s Brice Marich<\/a> at the time. \u201cMy favorite parts were watching practice and bowling with the coaching staff. In all honesty, I liked all the coaches. Even coaches I wouldn\u2019t play for, like the offensive guys, came and spoke to me and my family, expressing their great interest in me. It didn\u2019t feel like Coach Whittingham is recruiting me, but all of Michigan is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe facilities are definitely top of the line. They also made sure to cater to any need from me or my family. They simply made it clear I was a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watson \u2014 who is the 16th member of Michigan\u2019s 2027 class \u2014 is ranked No. 787 overall on the Rivals Industry Rankings. Check out his junior year highlights below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wolverines picked up their first linebacker in the 2027 recruiting class on Friday, as three-star Brayden Watson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,10671,10672],"class_list":["post-904615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-michigan-football-recruiting","tag-michigan-football-recruiting-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116659268060455009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904615","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=904615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}