Miami flips four-star 2026 DT Keshawn Stancil from Clemson

Sebastian Font

Oct 29, 2025 2 min read

The Miami Hurricanes continue to make waves in the recruiting world, flipping four-star DT Keshawn Stancil from Clemson.

A 6-foot-4, 280-pound North Carolina native, Stancil was largely off fans' radar following his commitment to Clemson earlier this summer.

He visited Miami during the first official visit weekend (5/30-6-1) with many believing that the Hurricanes would land his commitment right then and there, myself included.

However, Clemson made a late push and sealed the deal in late June following his visit.

But the UM staff kept working hard, not satisfied with their second place finish in his recruitment, and pounced on Stancil following the Tigers poor showing this season.

He’s the 3-tech lineman defensive coordinator Corey Hetherman absolutely loves, able to just wreck the game with his high motor. Stancil gets upfield well with raw power and huge upside as he hones in his technique.

So far this season Stancil has racked up 56 tackles and four sacks, with 15 of those tackles being TFL's --- violence with his effort on the line.

Stancil becomes Miami’s 25th commit in the 2026 class, joining a defensive line room of Asharri Charles, Anthony Kennedy Jr., Tyson Bacon and Frederic Sainteus.

The Hurricanes will look to continue to build their defensive line class as they push to flip five-star Oregon commit Tank Jones and Texas A&M commit Bryce Perry-Wright alongside four-star Alabama commit Nolan Wilson.

Like Stancil, other names previously thought of as “off the table” could be back on the cards for the 'Canes with more movement to come.

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lindend

Nov 13, 2025

Headhunter

Nov 13, 2025

LatinCane said:
Welcome to The U! Stay healthy! Focus on your diet, conditioning and grades!

such a doll face!

FrancisSawyer

Nov 13, 2025

sstcane said:
Hope we can pull a DL of
Edge: Asharri Charles, Tank Jones & Carter Gooden/Dre Quinn
Tackle: Freddie Sainteus, Anthony Kennedy, Keshawn Stancil & Isaiah Broughton

I would love to close with Tank Jones and Dre Quinn. Carter Gooden too but I'm not sure we pull him since we just flipped Nagle and the PSU DL.

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skeeter

Nov 14, 2025

FrancisSawyer said:
I would love to close with Tank Jones and Dre Quinn. Carter Gooden too but I'm not sure we pull him since we just flipped Nagle and the PSU DL.

Don’t believe we are recruiting Gooden anymore. Cancelled his visit last week

Calinative

Nov 14, 2025

FrancisSawyer said:
I would love to close with Tank Jones and Dre Quinn. Carter Gooden too but I'm not sure we pull him since we just flipped Nagle and the PSU DL.

Quinn is prob going with Texas.

I'd dedicate everything to Flipping Tank Jones at this point

miamimike305

Nov 14, 2025

dude is going to be good.

htownkidd

Nov 19, 2025

Up 145 spots to #72 overall by 247.

Last edited: Nov 19, 2025

Udynasty

Nov 20, 2025

Udynasty said:
For those saying this is not a whale. Talk to the staff and ask them how they view Stancil

update:

247 moved him up to a 96 rating and the #5 DT in the nation.

Braduhley

Nov 20, 2025

Udynasty said:
update:

247 moved him up to a 96 rating and the #5 DT in the nation.

The "247 hates Miami" crowd is in absolute shambles right now.

Udynasty

Nov 20, 2025

htownkidd said:
Up 145 spots to #72 overall by 247.

BTW when I was getting clowned here because I called him a whale..

I contacted someone close to the staff and this was their response

"They dont know what they're ******* talking about."

The staff always had Stancil in the same bucket as Nolan Wilson, Lamar Brown ( top target) , James Johnson ( before the senior crashout).

The hope was to land at LEAST one whale DT preferrably 2.

TrumpyCane

Nov 20, 2025

Udynasty said:
BTW when I was getting clowned here because I called him a whale..

I contacted someone close to the staff and this was their response

"They dont know what they're ******* talking about."

The staff always had Stancil in the same bucket as Nolan Wilson, Lamar Brown ( top target) , James Johnson ( before the senior crashout).

The hope was to land at LEAST one whale DT preferrably 2.

TrumpyCane forgot about him, has he been terrible?

Udynasty

Nov 20, 2025

TrumpyCane said:
TrumpyCane forgot about him, has he been terrible?

Has not had a great senior season. For the price tag it's basically a waste of resources.

AtlAtty

Nov 20, 2025

Udynasty said:
Has not had a great senior season. For the price tag it's basically a waste of resources.

Are you saying that Stancil is a waste of resources, or someone else?

T
TheATLCane

Nov 20, 2025

AtlAtty said:
Are you saying that Stancil is a waste of resources, or someone else?

james johnson

Udynasty

Nov 21, 2025

AtlAtty said:
Are you saying that Stancil is a waste of resources, or someone else?

James Johnson

DLINKDAGR8

Nov 21, 2025

NC SC MS produce DTs like the reserve prints dollar bills very low bust rate as well. Hopefully this is the beginning of floodgates opening back up in NC with the other two following