Miami lands Jacksonville St. safety Zechariah Poyser

DMoney

Tuesday at 3:26 PM 2 min read

The Canes landed perhaps the top safety in the Portal with the commitment of Jacksonville State’s Zechariah Poyser. The 6’2, 195-pounder native of Wildwood, FL (near the Villages) gives Miami an instant impact player with three years of eligibility at a position of need.

As a redshirt freshman, he compiled 75 tackles, three interceptions, and two fumble recoveries and earned an 80.1 defensive grade from Pro Football Focus (76.1 run defense and 80.1 coverage). According to Matt Zenitz at 247Sports, an SEC personnel staffer told him this week that Poyser is “one of the top young safeties in the nation and that he has All-American type potential.”

He was unrated out of high school as a wide receiver, catching 17 passes for 276 yards and 4 TDs as a senior. He also averaged 12.4 PPG, 3.4 RPG, 4.2 APG and 1.6 SPG on the hardwood.

Poyser has recorded a 41-inch vertical jump and Miami believes he is a high-level athlete. He was coached at Jacksonville State by former Miami staffer and Booker T. graduate Terry Jefferson.

Poyser chose Miami over Florida, Auburn, LSU and Georgia. He is a lifelong Hurricanes fan.

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FrancisSawyer

Tuesday at 8:48 PM

Excellent pickup! That 1st play oh my!

Negro-Wan Kanobi

Tuesday at 8:57 PM

JamesQuall said:

I tried. @JamesQuall the monopoly man

Sandman211

Tuesday at 9:16 PM

nobeastofburden said:
Jesus is the latin name.

Not exactly. When Jesus was born as man, there was no J in the Latin alphabet. It was I, instead of J. Which is the reason for the Catholic cross with the initials I.N.R.I

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nobeastofburden

Tuesday at 9:17 PM

Sandman211 said:
Not exactly. When Jesus was born as man, there was no J in the Latin alphabet. It was I, instead of J. Which is the reason for the Catholic cross with the initials I.N.R.I

Well I would have said late Latin but I digress.

TheOriginalCane

Tuesday at 9:18 PM

Sandman211 said:
Not exactly. When Jesus was born as man, there was no J in the Latin alphabet. It was I, instead of J. Which is the reason for the Catholic cross with the initials I.N.R.I

Iesus (of)
Nazareth
Rex (of the)
Iews

Sandman211

Tuesday at 9:19 PM

Great pick up! Hope he is able to improve our secondary immediately.

Udynasty

Tuesday at 9:39 PM

POYSER A GRADE A TROLL

westcoastcanes

Tuesday at 9:40 PM

Alex_Dynamix said:
Crazy I thought Mario sucked @ recruiting now

You thought right, he is over rated, especially with zero game day value.

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nobeastofburden

Tuesday at 9:41 PM

Udynasty said:
POYSER A GRADE A TROLL

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Love it

RealRussellPumps

Tuesday at 9:43 PM

RozayCane said:
Did he grow up a Cane fan? Peep the him throwing up the U as a kid.

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Might be the first time the “dream school” thing has worked out for us in forever

Memnon

Tuesday at 9:50 PM

Udynasty said:
POYSER A GRADE A TROLL

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#DeathToUGA

Udynasty

Tuesday at 9:58 PM

Memnon said:
#DeathToUGA

whats your take on this ?

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canesbaby

Tuesday at 9:59 PM

TheOriginalCane said:
The Gator thinks we paid Poyser $1.5 million. For one year.

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Come on get it right. We payed him $1.5m.

Damiencane86

Tuesday at 10:08 PM

Udynasty said:
POYSER A GRADE A TROLL

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JayCane20

Tuesday at 10:09 PM

Udynasty said:
POYSER A GRADE A TROLL

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You know he’s good with that top 3

TipDrill

Tuesday at 10:12 PM

IbzRlz

Tuesday at 10:13 PM

Good pickup...let's keep it going and get some positive momentum

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Alex_Dynamix

Tuesday at 10:15 PM

westcoastcanes said:
You thought right, he is over rated, especially with zero game day value.

so he sucks at everything, how tf did we win 10 games this yr?

FourFingers

Tuesday at 10:41 PM

@Memnon will give us his thoughts soon. He's just doing a deep dive on his hand-eye coordination extrapolated from a video of a mall piano recital in 2009.