Moreno Fisher flips from Virginia to Florida

The Gators kept their offensive line haul going Thursday afternoon, and the news broke fast.

Corey Bender

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🚨 BREAKING: Florida has landed another offensive line commitment in the 2027 class. 🚨 6-foot-7, 270-pound OT Moreno Fisher is headed to Gainesville. This comes after last weekend's official visit. MORE DETAILS: t.co/uwNd6mVcjx

Fisher plays at William Amos Hough in Cornelius, North Carolina, and he had been committed to Virginia. Then he reopened his recruitment, and his stock climbed quickly this fall. Auburn and Florida State were among the programs that offered once he was back on the market. On3 calls him one of the fastest-rising offensive linemen in the 2027 class, a kid with considerable upside.

Florida's pitch didn't start with last weekend's official visit. Fisher's first trip to Gainesville was in September for the Ole Miss game, and it clearly stuck with him. "The experience and the whole environment of that game was something crazy," Fisher said, per On3. "It was a daytime game, and it was still packed out." Selling a recruit on the Swamp is about as old as recruiting pitches get, and it worked again.

The frame is what you notice first. 6-foot-7 is the kind of height you can't coach, and at 270 he has plenty of room to add weight in a college strength program. The film room crew says there's more to him than measurables, though.

Graham Hall

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Florida has landed a commitment from 6-foot-7, 270-pound OL Moreno Fisher. A former Virginia commit, Fisher is coming off an official visit with the Gators. Story from @ttjharden8: t.co/ZJL9jwDSF2

This one is a win for Jon Sumrall and offensive line coach Phil Trautwein. The search results point to Fisher as Florida's 27th commitment in the 2027 class and its 4th offensive line pledge, at a position the Gators badly need to rebuild. Stacking young tackles with size is how you fix a line for the long haul. Hoping to find one in the portal every December is how you don't.

For Virginia, it's a tough one. The Cavaliers had a long North Carolina tackle locked in and watched him get poached once the SEC and the big Florida schools showed up. Fisher is in the fold now, and the job from here is keeping him there until he signs. A riser this hot will keep hearing from the schools that offered late, so his flip shouldn't be the last time his name comes up this cycle.