{"id":11504,"date":"2017-12-20T07:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2018-01-03T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:00:10","slug":"four-star-s-commit-john-huggins-signs-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2017\/12\/20\/four-star-s-commit-john-huggins-signs-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-Star S John Huggins Signs With Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed a top South Florida recruit. Four-star safety and Florida commit <strong>John Huggins<\/strong> has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a big signing for the Gators as Huggins is one of the versatile defensive backs in the Florida Gators class. Florida head coach <strong>Dan Mullen<\/strong> has 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<\/strong> <strong>Harris<\/strong> and <strong>Marcus Maye<\/strong>. Russell is one of third safeties that is signing with Florida Gators alongside with <strong>Amari<\/strong> <strong>Burney<\/strong> and <strong>Randy Russell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Who is John Huggins?<\/h4>\n<p>John Huggins is a four-star S out of Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Florida. The Florida S commit is one of the top safeties in the country. He was a tough get for the Gators as Florida had to battle with Florida State for the South Floridian. Huggins really took off in recruiting when he had a terrific senior season with the Mainland Buccaneers. Huggins chose Florida over Florida State, Miami and Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Rivals, Huggins is a four-star recruit and the 72<sup>nd<\/sup> ranked recruit in the state of Florida.\u00a0On to ESPN, Huggins is the 63<sup>rd<\/sup> ranked recruit in the state of Florida and the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> ranked safety in the country. The Gators have added a really solid safety who could really make an impact in the upcoming season. Florida is in severe need of defensive backs and Huggins is the classic all-around back that can help at safety or cornerback.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed a top South Florida recruit. Four-star safety and Florida commit John Huggins has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a big signing for the Gators as Huggins is one of the versatile defensive backs in the Florida Gators class. Florida head [&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":[1407,1197,244,2711,126,20],"class_list":["post-11504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-college-football-recruiting","tag-dan-mullen","tag-florida-gators","tag-john-huggins","tag-ncaa","tag-sec"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504","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=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}