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BREAKING: Miami Hurricanes stay hot on recruiting trail, add 4th commitment this week in top-150 TE Israel Briggs

Stephen Wagner covers recruiting for the University of Miami for On3 Sports and CaneSport. He can be found on Twitter at @stephenwag22 and reached at Stephen.Wagner@On3.com.by: Stephen Wagner06/24/25stephenwagOn3
Israel Briggs
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Miami landed its top flex tight end target in the 2026 cycle Tuesday when the Hurricanes beat out LSU for Visalia (Calif.) Redwood top-150 tight end Israel Briggs.

The No. 131 overall prospect and No. 8 tight end in the On3 Industry Ranking, who Miami projects as an explosive flex tight end, made his commitment public Tuesday evening, although he informed Miami head coach Mario Cristobal of his decision more than a week ago. Briggs becomes the fourth player to commit to Miami this week along with four-star 2026 prospects Asharri Charles and Vance Spafford and four-star 2027 prospect Jaylyn Jones. He’s also Miami’s 11th four-star commit this cycle and 17th total commit.

“I really checked every box off at Miami when I went down there for my official visit (June 13),” Briggs told CaneSport. “Coach (Cody) Woodiel, Alec (Da Silva), coach (Mario) Cristobal, really the whole staff kept in touch with me through the rough and through the times I was shining. Building that relationship for a year, they were the most on me too. It was bound to happen.”

Briggs said he chose to commit now because he feels he can make an impact as a freshman and wants to immediately begin preparing his body for the college level by adding weight and training. He’ll sign with the Hurricanes in December and be a January enrollee.

He said he used the flight home from his official visit last week to consider his options and called Cristobal shortly after he landed. But he chose to fake out Miami’s head coach for a laugh.

“I called coach Cristobal and I acted like I was going to commit somewhere else, but we got him and committed on the spot with him,” Briggs said. “It was a funny but emotional moment.”

He said it felt like a “family celebration” when he told Miami’s staff he wanted to pull the trigger.

“I’ve known that staff, literally everyone, for a year now,” Briggs said. “So it was just good to finally finalize that it’s time for me to come home.”

Briggs plans to fully shut down his recruitment.

CaneSport’s Take

Landing a top-150 tight end is obviously one thing to celebrate, but it becomes an even bigger celebration when the recruit is the No. 1 target at his position on your school’s board. Miami zeroed in on Briggs as the Hurricanes’ flex tight end target as soon as the staff began focusing on 2026 recruits in January and kept its foot on the gas through his two-month commitment to Arizona State. Now the efforts have paid off.

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