Five-Star DE Jaiden Bryant Flips to Miami Hurricanes

DMoney

Jun 3, 2026 2 min read

Jaiden Bryant is a Miami Hurricane.

The 6'4, 245 five-star DE from Columbia, South Carolina officially flipped from LSU to the Canes on Wednesday night. He is the #20 overall player in America, but as I wrote three months ago on the Bank, the staff has long valued Bryant as a top-of-the-board player:

The Canes are focused on elite players on the edge. Jaiden Bryant (Columbia, SC) might be the best player in America. He is committed to LSU but visiting the Canes on May 29th. Expect a full-court press.

Bryant was South Carolina's Co-Defensive Player of the Year, finishing his junior season with 79 tackles (23 TFL), 11 sacks, 6 FR and 1 INT. His Irmo team went 12-2 and made South Carolina’s Class AAAAA Division 2 title game.

On the track, he holds a PR of 52'1 in the shotput and also throws discus and javelin. His power has been compared to Rueben Bain, and he also has the athleticism to play offense.

Bryant visited this past weekend and told CanesInSight's Sebastian Font, “it's definitely heavy knowing Miami got two first rounders with the same coach [Jason Taylor], that’s a key piece to my recruitment.” He also praised DC Corey Hetherman: “I love the scheme — vertical upfield, my type of playstyle, my type of defense. I definitely love it.”

Bryant is Miami's 18th commit in the 2027 and its fourth five-star commit.

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BayAreaCane00

Jun 4, 2026

Dwinstitles said:
I cant believe I have to read 24 ******* pages man, **** yall bruh

Lmao i did the same thing. I’m turnt!!! LFG!!

GojiraCane

Jun 4, 2026

First time Miami has had four five stars in one class. Amazing!

DubCaliCane

Jun 4, 2026

This is a preposterous flip. I already knew, but Mario really like that

gogeta4

Jun 4, 2026

Hstokes1447 said:

oh dude is all in on s.fla culture ...lol
its a wrap.

Handsome Squidbum

Jun 4, 2026

DubCaliCane said:
This is a preposterous flip. I already knew, but Mario really like that

Dwinstitles

Jun 4, 2026

Canesallday09 said:
They’re big mad!!

These fans just killing SEC lore and this is going to keep happening, now we the boss and you go back to the ways of old where yall was dog ****

Dwinstitles

Jun 4, 2026

Brooklyndee said:
I'm not trying to call you out your name or anything like that. But that's some real ****** ***** **** where in the same sentence where you're celebrating the fact we flipped a five-star defensive end so late in the cycle, You also have to point out we better get another one because it looks like we can't get the type of defensive lineman you want. Like that's real ****** bull****. That's some on the spectrum type behavior. Take 30 minutes to enjoy the fact we just flipped a top 20 in the country player, a five-star defensive end without dwelling on the facts obviously we need the types of d tackles. Everybody knows that but is this thread, in this moment the time to point that out? Ur better then that bruh.

Yea Bryant is better than DJ imo so I am excited, Bain part 2

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Gru

Jun 4, 2026

Dwinstitles said:
Yea Bryant is better than DJ imo so I am excited, Bain part 2

We getting both

Dwinstitles

Jun 4, 2026

Gru said:
We getting both

I think so now as well, I think we get both because JB applies pressure on DJ to play together. Dogs want to play with dogs

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nycane

Jun 4, 2026

Dwinstitles said:
These fans just killing SEC lore and this is going to keep happening, now we the boss and you go back to the ways of old where yall was dog ****

they conference is trash. Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama are overrated. Tenn and Mizzou can't beat a p5 team with a winning record and they stay in top 25 all year. Florida was like a top 10 preason team last year lol

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TboneJones

Jun 4, 2026

Hstokes1447 said:
I’m convinced Miami also gets Dj Jacobs

I definitely think we get Henderson.

Confidence1000

Jun 4, 2026

Hstokes1447 said:
Talking in it

Mannnnnn listen

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TboneJones

Jun 4, 2026

grover said:
I’m not in the room where it happens. But I’d be surprised if our NIL payouts are any more than the other top programs. I’m sure we’re paying well, not saying kids are coming to Miami only for the coaching and culture. But I don’t relieve we’re overpaying. Maybe Cantwell we did but he is Hercules.

My point is that when L$U, Jawja and Baga come crying about us throwing money at recruits, what’s really happening is we are roughly matching and the recruits would just rather play at the U.

I don't think we're overpaying. If anyone is overpaying it's those SEC schools b/c they aren't in the most attractive locations.

Dwinstitles

Jun 4, 2026

AtlAtty said:
We tried to tell everyone that once pay was over the table instead of under the table, UM and a few other programs would have the advantage. Our billionaire boosters were never going to hand out $20,000 duffel bags. But once NIL provided a legitimate avenue, those same boosters could do so much more than duffel bags of cash.

What we could not have definitively known was that UM would hire the right coach to also take advantage of NIL and UM’s resources. Mario and the refocused administration have put it all together and created a football machine.

I thought it would help I think it did but Manny was dog ****. They have to believe in the head coach and you have to have the NIL, its a mixture of both but LCE was right them boys in scramble mode. When Saban said Bryce got 1m in NIL i thought to myself they would be able to battle still but apparently not

Dwinstitles

Jun 4, 2026

NZ Cane said:
My absolute favourite from the LSU ON3 board...And I quote ...

"Summerall never would have let this happen"...

What a melt down.

I just died bruh

Udynasty

Jun 4, 2026

5/13

Dwinstitles

Jun 4, 2026

KrazyCane said:
The composite is much better

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Thats a national CHampionship defense, all 1st to second round picks there

Calinative

Jun 4, 2026

cookies said:
Don’t think they are passing, it’s just cutthroat competition for that position. There’s also less of a separation amongst everybody because 3 other schools (SMU) in their state have made the playoffs in the past 2 seasons with A&M and TT being the most recent.

They have two of the top 20 edges committed already though so they aren’t completely striking out. …. They are still in it for a lot of bluechippers. 247 shows that they haven’t had official visitors yet; they stacked these 3 weekends of June, pre-dead period.

And not sure if you peeped but they absolutely had one of the best portal classes last year which probably dried up some funds.

Yeah they went and signed big portal class this year, but that's cause they're all in on this season. This 27 HS class is for next+future seasons.
Of course they've been like top 3 each of last 2 years out of HS pretty sure. So not like they wont have guys.

But they also have a LOT of high value players that should be coming off the books for NIL after this season. Legit they lose their entire starting lineup on offense basically lol. Arch, Smothers+Raleek, Coleman+Wingo, Goosby. Aside from the RBs those are all 1st round type prospects. And defensively Colin Simmons is a top 10 pick, and I'm sure Rasheem Biles was expensive. Bo Mascoe will be gone too. I mean all those names alone is probably like >$15M?

I'm just saying all that to say I think if it came down to Texas or LSU for Green, and Texas has deemed him the top DL recruit they're after... I think they beat LSU for him.

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Memnon

Jun 4, 2026

Handsome Squidbum said:

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS!!!

Dwinstitles

Jun 4, 2026

Ok where are the we can allocate funds cause of the MM miss posts, I like those tin foil posts
This Mario he can get anybody he targets and puts the full court press on pause