CB Dijon Johnson Update: Gators ‘Recruiting Me the Hardest’

Picture: Dijon Johnson; Credit score: Conner Clarke 

Tampa (Fla.) Wharton 2023 cornerback Dijon Johnson understands that the eyes of the school soccer recruiting world are on him, with fanbases of a number of blue-blood packages watching his each social media transfer in hopes of an announcement that he has dedicated to their college.

Johnson is not in a rush to make that call, nevertheless. He is put his concentrate on his senior season of highschool and intends to let his recruitment play out at his personal tempo.

“I am nonetheless occupied with every little thing proper now,” Johnson informed Brian Smith of Contained in the Knights on FanNation on Friday. “I am actually apprehensive about my season and all that, although. However all of that’s on the way in which, every little thing is coming.”

That being mentioned, there was one staff constantly linked to Johnson since he backed off of his pledge to Ohio State on the finish of July: The Florida Gators.

Johnson confirmed that he might be in attendance for Florida’s season-opener in opposition to the No. 7 Utah Utes on Sept. 3. It is the one go to Johnson has deliberate in the meanwhile for the upcoming season and his first trek to any program since he made his option to Gainesville for the Friday Evening Lights and Grill within the Ville occasions from July 29-30.

“It is in my dwelling state, man,” Johnson mentioned, requested why Florida is a prime college in his recruitment. “Why not do it massive in your house state?”

Johnson made observe that, of all the colleges pursuing him, the Gators are presently “recruiting me the toughest proper now.” Head coach Billy Napier and cornerbacks coach Corey Raymond are notably main the cost, with help from huge receivers coach Keary Colbert, defensive analyst Jamar Chaney and different employees members.

“[Napier] hits me up each different day,” Johnson shared. “I really like what he is doing, I really feel like he will have this system modified within the subsequent three years. I simply need to hold getting a greater relationship with him.”

As for Raymond, Johnson added: “[Our relationship has] been getting tighter and tighter each day. Coach Raymond, coming with any person that performed the place and is among the greatest at what they do, it is key.”

Johnson informed the Varsity Podcast on Aug. 18 {that a} chief has emerged in his recruitment. Though he did not share this system particularly out in entrance, he had nothing however reward to share for Napier, Raymond and the Gators’ efforts at the moment, very like on Friday evening.

Nonetheless, he continues to listen to from packages not named Florida now that he’s again on the recruiting market. Though he has but to formally reciprocate the curiosity by way of scheduling a go to to Coral Gables, Johnson praised the Miami Hurricanes for his or her complete teaching employees having been in communication with him as of late. Miami vied for a go to from Johnson within the remaining week of July however he opted to go to Florida that weekend as an alternative.

Johnson did, nevertheless, rule out one among Florida’s prime rivals, sharing that hasn’t been talking with Georgia since his decommitment.

Whereas he’s in no rush to make his faculty determination, the Gators are in a good spot inside Johnson’s recruitment whereas the Tampa product continues to evaluate his choices. Solely time will inform if they’re going to be capable of seal the deal.

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