2025 4-star TE lands Miami Hurricanes offer, looking to take fall UM visit

Miami may have lost the battle for Los Alamitos four-star tight end Davion Mitchell to Oklahoma earlier this summer when the then-2025 prospect announced he would reclassify to the 2024 class, but the Hurricanes have had little trouble moving forward.

Miami offered Jasper (Tx.) 2025 four-star tight end Kiotti Armstong in late July, just days before the Hurricanes brought fellow 2025 four-star tight end Ryan Ghea to campus for the program’s end-of-July recruiting barbecue. Armstrong, the No. 141 overall prospect and No. 4 tight end in the On3 Industry Ranking, had not had previous contact with the Hurricanes’ coaching staff before receiving the offer but is adding Miami to his list of potential schools.

He already has more than a dozen offers including LSU, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida. The 6-foot-5, 246-pound tight end attended Texas A&M’s end-of-summer cookout during the final weekend of July. He is listed as a top 10 tight end by all four major recruiting databases.

“(Tight ends coach Cody Woodiel) said he’d been watching my film and he wanted to offer me, and I was happy, excited,” Armstrong said. “The coaches are good, the weather is good. (Woodiel) said my film stands out, the way I’m able to move and how I’m able to go get the ball.”

LSU, Auburn, Texas A&M and Texas Tech are making the strongest recruiting efforts, Armstrong said, but he wants to build a relationship with the Hurricanes’ staff and learn more about the program. His fit into a school’s offensive system will be a driving factor in his recruitment as well as off-the-field benefits like education and academic resources.

He hopes to visit Miami for a game this fall in addition to several programs yet to pull the trigger, like Alabama and Oregon. He’s yet to narrow down his list so early into his recruitment and wants to visit most of the schools that have shown interest in him, he told CaneSport.

CaneSport’s Take

Armstrong is a raw talent with a tremendous ceiling with similar size to Ghea, who made two trips to Miami this summer and is slowly emerging as a priority target himself. It’s still plenty early, but the idea of landing Ghea and Armstrong as the Hurricanes’ two tight ends in the 2025 class is fairly appealing if Miami could pull it off. Four-star tight end Elija Lofton is the only 2024 tight end commit the Hurricanes have landed thus far, and taking two in next year’s class may not be a bad idea.

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