Fact or Fiction: Miami is the biggest threat to Georgia for Elijah Griffin

Rivals national recruiting analyst Sam Spiegelman is joined by National Recruiting Director Adam Gorney, DottingTheEyes.com’s Jeremy Birmingham and CaneCounty.com’s Marcus Benjamin to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION.

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1. Miami is the biggest threat to Georgia for five-star DT Elijah Griffin.

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Benjamin: FACT. The five-star thoroughly enjoyed his visit to Miami over the weekend, and Miami has many factors that Elijah Griffin deems important: weather, culture and the opportunity to develop under a hall-of-famer in Hurricanes defensive line coach Jason Taylor. Contenders South Carolina, Oregon and USC simply cannot match Miami in those areas.

Georgia has trended as the clear front-runner, but Miami will push all aspects of its program to entice Griffin to commit to the Hurricanes until he signs. I assume that the premier talent will commit to the Bulldogs if he chooses to pledge during the summer. But that certainly will not be the end of his recruitment.

Griffin’s journey seems similar to that of 2025 Miami signee Justin Scott. The Chicago native was favored to pick Notre Dame but committed to Ohio State instead. Eventually, the Hurricanes were able to storm in to flip Scott, and the possibility of a…

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Publish date : 2024-06-09 15:21:34

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