{"id":27290,"date":"2019-12-18T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=27290"},"modified":"2020-02-16T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T01:22:38","slug":"jaylen-harrell-michigan-wolverines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/12\/18\/jaylen-harrell-michigan-wolverines\/","title":{"rendered":"DL Recruit Jaylen Harrell Signs With Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2019\/12\/10\/alabama-selected-to-the-2020-citrus-bowl-against-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Michigan<\/a> is continuing to bolster its defensive line. Three-star defensive lineman <strong>Jaylen Harrell<\/strong> has signed with the Wolverines. Harrell is the fourth defensive lineman to sign with Michigan, demonstrating the team&#8217;s desire to continue to have a physical defense.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Who Is Jaylen Harrell?<\/h3>\n<p>Jaylen Harrell hails from Tampa, Florida. Born into a sports family, Harrell&#8217;s father, James, played in the NFL from 1979 to 1987. At 6-4, 235 pounds, Harrell attended Berkeley Prep High School, where he played defensive end, linebacker, running back and fullback. Serving as the team captain as a senior, Harrell helped the team to a second-round appearance in the state Class 3A Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>In his senior year, Harrell registered 58 tackles, 11 of which were for a loss of yards. He also generated three sacks, showcasing his innate ability to get after the quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of his high school performance, Harrell was awarded a four-star ranking according to <em>247Sports Composite<\/em>. <em>247Sports<\/em> rated Harrell as the 22nd-rated defensive end prospect and the 60th best player coming out of Florida. Rivals.com also awarded Harrell three-star status and ESPN300 rated the young defensive lineman the fourth-best in the country at his position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Michigan is continuing to bolster its defensive line. Three-star defensive lineman Jaylen Harrell has signed with the Wolverines. Harrell is the fourth defensive lineman to sign with Michigan, demonstrating the team&#8217;s desire to continue to have a physical defense. Who Is Jaylen Harrell? Jaylen Harrell hails from Tampa, Florida. Born into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":14991,"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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"192","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[4109,7983,462,279,1413],"class_list":["post-27290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-bigten","tag-2019-early-signing-period","tag-big-ten-football","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-national-signing-day"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290","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\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}