It’s far from unheard of when a football recruit, after pledging to one university, pulls that pledge and begins the recruiting process anew. When he does it three times? And to the same university? Almost unheard of.
Almost.
On his private Twitter account Wednesday, in-state commitment Juan Harris announced that he had decided to decommit from Iowa. And, yes, it’s the third time the 6-4, 368-pound defensive tackle has decommitted from the Hawkeyes.
“First, I want to thank the Iowa staff for being true and supportive of me this past year,” Harris wrote in his tweet. “I am de-committing and going to reevaluate. I will not do any interviews.”
Harris, a three-star 2017 prospect rated as the No. 6 recruit in the state at any position, originally committed to the Hawkeyes in December of 2014. His initial decommitment came exactly one month later, while his second commitment came less than three weeks after that. Less than two months later, Harris pulled a verbal a second time, while the third pledge came in late June of 2015.
Following the third commitment, Harris was resolute in vowing to stay true to this one.
“I’m shutting down other schools and Iowa will be the only school I visit and camp for,” the defensive lineman said.
National Signing Day is still eight months away, so there’s still time for the Hawkeyes to secure a fourth commitment from Harris. And a fourth decommitment, for that matter.