Although the NCAA is in a recruiting dead period that restricts in-person contact between prospects and college football coaches, two recruits out of Georgia with interest in the Miami Hurricanes were able to independently make it down to UM for a visit over the weekend.

Four-star quarterback Jacurri Brown, of Lowndes High in South Georgia, and three-star wide receiver Isaiah Bond, who plays both sides of the ball for Buford High in the northern part of the state, spent Thursday through Saturday in Miami with the guidance of one of their 7-on-7 coaches. The two play together on the DOMO 7-on-7 team.

Both have Miami among their top five choices of schools and want to announce a commitment soon. Brown has the Hurricanes in his top five with Florida, Auburn, Texas A&M and Arizona State. He is scheduled announce his decision on Friday morning.

Bond has Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin and Pittsburgh with UM in his top five, and he told the South Florida Sun Sentinel he wants to commit in about a month.

Unable to meet with coaches face-to-face, while the recruits did walk around UM’s Coral Gables campus on Friday, the visit was about more than football. They attended an event with non-profit youth organization Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America. Through the connections of their coach, who is a former police officer in the area, they met with high-ranking police chiefs and even Doral mayor Juan Carlos Bermudez.

“The overall visit, it was great,” Bond said. “I had an amazing and fun time down there visiting the campus. … We both liked it.”

He added that they also toured the city of Miami and got to spend some time on the beach.

“It exceeded my expectations. I didn’t expect it to be as big as it was,” Bond said. “I enjoyed every bit of it.”

While Brown and Bond are from different parts of the state, they have a great connection from playing together on the same 7-on-7 team.

“It was kind of natural the first time we met,” Bond said. “It kind of just clicked.”

Bond, who hasn’t gotten to visit other schools the way he did with Miami, broke down why the other four schools are in his top five.

“Georgia, really just an in-state school,” he said. “Alabama, just one of the biggest — No. 1 program in the country. Wisconsin, I would say their facilities are probably top tier. Pitt, the coaches really want me. I really chose them because it’s kind of different from the other four.”

Miami has a player on its roster from each of the two prospects’ high schools — freshman defensive end Thomas Davis attended Brown’s Lowndes High and redshirt freshman defensive tackle Jalar Holley attended Buford, like Bond.

“He said he loved it so far,” Bond said.

Miami has just one commitment in the 2022 recruiting class in Tampa Carrollwood Day defensive tackle Brandon Cleveland. UM also has four-star quarterback Kaden Martin, from Knoxville Catholic in Tennessee, committed for baseball with the possibility of joining the football team if he doesn’t go the pro baseball route out of high school. Bond feels, if the Hurricanes land the Georgia duo, that will create momentum.

“I could definitely see a movement coming if that happens,” he said.