{"id":11406,"date":"2017-12-20T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2018-01-03T21:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T02:59:34","slug":"safety-trey-dean-signs-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2017\/12\/20\/safety-trey-dean-signs-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"All-American S Trey Dean Signs With Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed one of the top safeties in the country. Four-star safety and Under Armour All-American <strong>Trey Dean<\/strong> has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a big signing for the Gators as Dean is one of the most versatile defensive backs in the Florida Gators class. Florida head coach Dan Mullen added a big safety that can really make a huge impact on the Florida Gators defense. The Gators are in need of safeties as they really struggled last season without <strong>Marcell Harris<\/strong> and <strong>Marcus Maye<\/strong>. Dean is one of three safeties that is signing with Florida Gators alongside with <strong>Amari Burney<\/strong> and <strong>Randy Russell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Who is Trey Dean?<\/h4>\n<p>Trey Dean is a four-star safety out of Dutchtown High School in Hampton, Georgia. He is one of the top safety prospects in the country. He was a tough get for the Gators as Florida had to battle with Alabama for the Under Armour All-American. Dean started to favor the Gators once Mullen came on board. The Georgia product is also cousins with former Gator safety, <strong>Ahmad Black<\/strong>. Dean chose Florida over Alabama, Michigan and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 247 Sports Composite Rankings, Dean is the 249<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit and the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> ranked safety in the country. According to Rivals, Russell is the 186<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit and the 14<sup>th<\/sup> ranked safety in the country. The Gators have added a really solid safety who could really make an impact in the upcoming season. Dean is truly a nice addition for the Gators as he could do a lot of different things. Dean could also be a candidate to be the next nickel in the Gators defense with <strong>C.J. Henderson<\/strong> probably moving over to corner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed one of the top safeties in the country. Four-star safety and Under Armour All-American Trey Dean has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a big signing for the Gators as Dean is one of the most versatile defensive backs in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1407,1197,244,126,20,2701],"class_list":["post-11406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-college-football-recruiting","tag-dan-mullen","tag-florida-gators","tag-ncaa","tag-sec","tag-trey-dean"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}