Miami Hurricanes Land 2025 Five-Star Recruit Armondo Blount

Peter Ariz

Sep 14, 2023 2 min read

South Florida Phenom Picks Homegrown Canes Over Elite Suitors

Miami Central High School's Armondo Blount officially announced his commitment to the Miami Hurricanes on Thursday afternoon. The five-star prospect is ranked as the #5 overall recruit in the 2025 class, according to 247Sports Composite rankings. Additionally, he holds the title of the #1 player in Florida and the #2 defensive lineman in the nation.

Listed at 6-3, 250 pounds, Blount is a nightmare for offensive lines and quarterbacks alike. He has a similar play style to Hurricanes freshman Rueben Bain, but might be a bit lengthier than Bain. His commitment adds a blue-chip prospect to a 2025 class that recently added WR Waden Charles.

Miami successfully outmaneuvered perennial powers like Oklahoma, USC, Florida State, and Ohio State to land the coveted defender. This commitment suggests Miami’s momentum on the field could play a significant factor in recruiting moving forward.

Blount spent his previous two seasons at Dillard High School before transferring to Central for this year. He will be reuniting with former teammate Nyjalik Kelly, a current defensive end for the Hurricanes.

In terms of on-field production, Blount's numbers speak for themselves. He burst onto the high school football scene as a freshman in 2021, where he registered an eye-popping 13 sacks. He upped the ante in his sophomore season, racking up 16 sacks in 2022.

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305407cane

Nov 1, 2023

Memnon said:
So he’s not overrated anymore right guysm?

You got it chief. Now he’s big time. Whale hunting bro. Flips bro.

gogeta4

Nov 1, 2023

htownkidd said:
Is he good again?

jag right now for me....but could be re ranked depending on flip

Number1CanesFan

Nov 1, 2023

razrcane said:
If this class doesn't get better the only thing he's currently building is his bank account. The class as it currently stands isn't up to "stacking elite talent" that needs to happen for him to be very successful here. Early Signing day is less than 2 months away so maybe he pulls a Bowden and has a couple "surprise flips" in his pocket hopefully.

According to media, Mario got 9 commitments last December just before signing day. I'm not concerned.

Some connected insiders say we have 2 blue chip flips and possibly 3-4 flips in total. We could also lose 1-2 current commits

Number1CanesFan

Nov 1, 2023

canes732 said:
No hey really aren’t as good as the media hyped them to be. They are good but I think Jordan Travis holds them back he’s really not that good

I think you are incorrect. They're leading the ACC in scoring. He has numbers to back it. He's good for what they do and he's been in that offense for 3-4 years.

My point is they don't have anything behind him who is the same or better. They have a highly ranked freshman coming in next year, but likely not a contributer year 1.

DoctorKrazey

Nov 2, 2023

Number1CanesFan said:
I think you are incorrect. They're leading the ACC in scoring. He has numbers to back it. He's good for what they do and he's been in that offense for 3-4 years.

My point is they don't have anything behind him who is the same or better. They have a highly ranked freshman coming in next year, but likely not a contributer year 1.

Travis is playing extremely well this year, and they are elite at WR, but if I’m being perfectly honest there’s not much else on their team that scares me, per se. In the trenches, I actually think they’re pretty average and still don’t have quality depth. I believe we have a distinct advantage on the line of scrimmage over them, on both sides of the ball.

CDWright40

Nov 2, 2023

DoctorKrazey said:
Travis is playing extremely well this year, and they are elite at WR, but if I’m being perfectly honest there’s not much else on their team that scares me, per se. In the trenches, I actually think they’re pretty average and still don’t have quality depth. I believe we have a distinct advantage on the line of scrimmage over them, on both sides of the ball.

If we haven’t learned to defend the counter the Rb will have 300 yards on us again.

MikeCane18

Nov 2, 2023

DoctorKrazey said:
Travis is playing extremely well this year, and they are elite at WR, but if I’m being perfectly honest there’s not much else on their team that scares me, per se. In the trenches, I actually think they’re pretty average and still don’t have quality depth. I believe we have a distinct advantage on the line of scrimmage over them, on both sides of the ball.

QB A -

149

213

70.0

1,884

8.8

161.5

QB B-

164

253

64.8

2,109

8.3

156.7

Ghandi

Nov 2, 2023

MikeCane18 said:
QB A -

149 213 70.0 1,884 8.8 16 8 64 6 161.5

QB B-

164 253 64.8 2,109 8.3 18 2 80 156.7

Van Dimes is QB A.

INT’s are a dead giveaway

MikeCane18

Nov 2, 2023

Ghandi said:
Van Dimes is QB A.

INT’s are a dead giveaway

Yep. Bottom is Travis. While he hasn't turned it over as much, He's not exactly lighting the world on fire either. He plays well within their system I suppose.

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Jaxcane4

Nov 2, 2023

MikeCane18 said:
Yep. Bottom is Travis. While he hasn't turned it over as much, He's not exactly lighting the world on fire either. He plays well within their system I suppose.

You also don't have the 200 rush yards and 6 rush TDs. I think that's the most important containing the scramble on 3rd down and in the red zone. Rosier wasnt a good QB for us but that ability won us a lot of games and he was way more of a turnover machine then travis.

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YankeesCane

Nov 2, 2023

FSU hasnt been hit in the face yet. Everything has gone their way so far. They need to be rattled

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MikeCane18

Nov 2, 2023

Jaxcane4 said:
You also don't have the 200 rush yards and 6 rush TDs. I think that's the most important containing the scramble on 3rd down and in the red zone. Rosier wasnt a good QB for us but that ability won us a lot of games and he was way more of a turnover machine then travis.

Sure, that's what makes Travis who he is. He's a backyard football style player, but again as a QB overall I wouldn't classify anything he is necessarily doing as knock your socks off amazing. Every 5 plays he gets pressured scrambles around, closes his eyes and throws it up to Coleman and Wilson.

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Jaxcane4

Nov 2, 2023

It's effective in college, wouldn't trust him in the NFL.

ScharfCane

Nov 2, 2023

Jaxcane4 said:
It's effective in college, wouldn't trust him in the NFL.

Troy Smith 2.0

Crimpy

Nov 4, 2023

Blount's mother just upped her double flip NIL demand to a billion dollars.

WeBallinBoyz

Nov 4, 2023

Crimpy said:
Blount's mother just upped her double flip NIL demand to a billion dollars.

Norvell upped it and said she can call the defensive plays next Saturday, they’ll still hold us under 17.

Crimpy

Nov 4, 2023

WeBallinBoyz said:
Norvell upped it and said she can call the defensive plays next Saturday, they’ll still hold us under 17.

After that abortion of a game, Norvell has zero to worry about. Mario probably would've tried to line Blount up as a slot receiver anyway.

BS85

Nov 5, 2023

Canesfan_134

Nov 5, 2023

DoctorKrazey said:
Travis is playing extremely well this year, and they are elite at WR, but if I’m being perfectly honest there’s not much else on their team that scares me, per se. In the trenches, I actually think they’re pretty average and still don’t have quality depth. I believe we have a distinct advantage on the line of scrimmage over them, on both sides of the ball.

FSU is very beatable they’re not great by any means. They are “better” that us but we are very capable of winning that game. That game is our “super bowl” if we beat them I’d consider this season somewhat of a success…