{"id":26861,"date":"2019-12-18T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=26861"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:05:54","slug":"all-american-dt-johnnie-brown-signs-with-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/12\/18\/all-american-dt-johnnie-brown-signs-with-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"All-American DT Johnnie Brown Signs With Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dan Mullen<\/strong> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2019\/11\/21\/florida-gators-2020-mock-recruiting-class-2-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Gators<\/a> coaching staff have signed one of their top ranked commits. Four-star defensive tackle <strong>Johnnie Brown<\/strong> has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a huge signing for Florida as Brown is one of the top defensive tackles in the country. Mullen loves Brown\u2019s skill set as he\u2019s a perfect fit and can really make a huge impact on the Florida Gators defense. Brown is the one of four defensive tackles to sign with the Gators with <strong>Lamar Goods<\/strong>, <strong>Jalen Lee<\/strong>, and <strong>Johnnie Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Who Is Johnnie Brown?<\/h3>\n<p>Johnnie Brown is a four-star defensive tackle out of Sebring High School in Tampa, Florida. The newest Florida signee is one of the top defensive linemen recruits in the country. He was a huge get for the Gators as he was committed for close to a year and remained solid.\u00a0 Brown signed with Florida over Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/247sports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>247Sports<\/em><\/a>, Brown is the 178<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit and the 15<sup>th<\/sup> ranked defensive tackle in the country. On ESPN, Brown is the 180<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit and the 15<sup>th<\/sup> ranked defensive tackle in the country. The Gators have added a top defensive lineman who could really make an impact in the future. David Turner and the Florida coaching staff has done a great job of keeping his solid to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: October 15, 2016: The Florida Gators and Southeastern Conference logos on an end zone pylon during the NCAA football game between the Florida Gators and the Missouri Tigers at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field in Gainesville, FL. (Photo by David Rosenblum\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed one of their top ranked commits. Four-star defensive tackle Johnnie Brown has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a huge signing for Florida as Brown is one of the top defensive tackles in the country. Mullen loves Brown\u2019s skill set as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":27007,"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":[3],"tags":[79,1197,244,2999,5775,126,3026,20],"class_list":["post-26861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sec","tag-college-football","tag-dan-mullen","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-gators-recruiting","tag-johnnie-brown","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaaf","tag-sec"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861","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=26861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77750,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26861\/revisions\/77750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}