Summer recruiting season is pretty much done in Florida.Only one of the state’s 39 blue-chip recruits in the Class of 2027 in the 247Sports Composite is uncommitted: four-star linebacker Za’Kari Johnson of Miami Carol City Senior High School.Texas A&M, which owns the No. 1 class in the country, has commitments from five of the top seven players in the state. Miami, ranked three spots behind Texas A&M, leads the way with six blue-chip commitments from the state.Let’s get to your state of Florida recruiting questions.Questions have been lightly edited for clarity.Mensah's at Miami. What does it mean?Stewart Mandel and Ralph D. RussoWhat effect has the transfer portal had on local recruiting — especially for players who are rated lower than five stars? — Rob M.Great question, Rob. I feel like we’ve had enough time since the launch of the one-time transfer rule in 2021 and the adoption of the unlimited transfer rule in 2024 to gather some solid data.We’ve been hearing for years from high school coaches in the state about how the transfer portal has limited their players’ opportunities at the FBS level. I’ve heard stories about how some programs have pulled scholarship offers from high school recruits in the middle of their senior seasons and pivoted to signing transfers who they believe are more game-ready.To gather some perspective, I researched where in-state recruits signed in the final cycle before the implementation of the transfer portal (2018) and compared those numbers to the 2025 cycle, a year after the unlimited transfer rule took effect.First of all, the number of available scholarships for high school seniors has clearly dwindled. Only 296 high school seniors from Florida signed with FBS programs in 2025 — significantly fewer than in 2018 (362).What’s interesting is where the shift occurred. While the number of in-state recruits who signed with Power 4 programs in 2025 (169) dropped compared to 2018 (193), the wider gap was among Group of 6 schools. Only 127 recruits from Florida signed with G6 programs in 2025 compared to 179 in 2018.Why do those numbers make sense? P4 programs are still getting their choice of top high school players, while G6 programs are spending less time developing high school recruits, opting instead to take transfers who didn’t make the cut at the P4 level their first go-around and are usually more affordable in the portal.What impact do you think the Canes’ practice of parachuting in a star QB for a year had on the recruiting of elite young QBs? — Altan K.I think we’ve reached a point in college football where quarterbacks know they’re likely to enter the portal at one point in their careers. So while it might seem like the Hurricanes would have done irreparable harm to their high school quarterback recruiting by taking a high-profile transfer for the third year in a row, the truth is, it really hasn’t.The best players want to play for the best teams, and it’s obvious Miami’s run to last year’s national title game put them on a different level in the eyes of recruits nationwide. The Canes signed four-star QB Dereon Coleman in the Class of 2026 and have a commitment from Class of 2027 five-star QB Israel Adams from Illinois.Miami has offensive continuity on its side as well. Keeping OC Shannon Dawson around has helped.