Jelani Jenkins

Jelani Jenkins spurns the advances of Florida, Notre Dame, and USC and instead chooses to honor an old man’s dying wish and head to Penn State. Penn State coaches will alert JoePa once he wakes up from his nap Florida's 2009 class is officially loaded. Jelani Jenkins' 11 a.m. pledge to Florida could bolster the Gators into the top five in almost every recruiting ranking, possibly higher.

Jenkins is Florida's highest-rated recruit this year and generally recognized as one of the 10 best high school players in the country. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Jenkins is only 16 years old, and he's the No. 10 recruit in the country on the Rivals 100 and the No. 9 recruit on the ESPNU 150 "It's a great program," Jenkins said. "I felt comfortable with all the coaches, all the players, and it's great weather."

Jenkins, who has cut the long hair he wore at last month's Under Armour All America Game, read a long speech thanking many people and detailing his recruiting process before finally announcing his decision National Signing Day is usually about the rich getting richer, and that's certainly the case with the national champion Florida Gators landing linebacker Jelani Jenkins of Our Lady Of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland.