Florida lands 4-star IOL commit from South Carolina
Timberland (Saint Stephen, South Carolina) interior offensive lineman Desmond Green is headed to the University of Florida.
The four-star recruit was considered a Georgia lean at one point, and South Carolina stayed in the mix as a hometown contender. But Green committed to the Orange and Blue on Thursday afternoon after taking an official visit to Florida earlier in June.
'Florida really grew on me a lot the last few months,' Green said to On3. 'Before I started official visits, back in the spring, I was keeping it even, but everyone was thinking Georgia was the school. I went to Florida for a spring practice and I liked it a lot. Then on the official visit, I knew it. It hit me like a semi truck… Florida was the school for me. I had that feeling and I could not say no to it.'
Green has the kind of size and length that Billy Napier likes in the trenches. Swamp247 reported Green is just shy of 6-foot-5-inches and weighs 350 pounds "with a 22-inch arm length and 81.4-inch wingspan." He's flashed athleticism but needs to develop his body in college, as most high school big men do. He's powerful already, and transferring some of that weight into muscle will only make him more dominant on the line.
The 247Sports Composite grants Green a four-star grade and puts him at No. 393 nationally. He checks in at No. 33 among interior offensive linemen in the class of 2026 and is No. 9 in South Carolina. Rivals is the only individual service that thinks Green is a four-star recruit in its standalone rankings, but a top-150 placement gave him a big boost.
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