{"id":270701,"date":"2025-10-02T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270701\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:59:11","slug":"big-michigan-linebacker-flips-from-central-florida-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270701\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Michigan linebacker flips from Central Florida \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan prep prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/charlie-jilek-46152938\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charlie Jilek<\/a> flipped his commitment from Central Florida to the Gophers football program on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-5, 240-pound linebacker and tight end from Portage (Mich.) Central High School is a three-star recruit, who had other offers from Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, San Diego State, Ohio and others.<\/p>\n<p>Jilek was committed to UCF and head coach Scott Frost as a tight end since April, but felt he was best suited to play inside linebacker. He posted 100 tackles as a junior in the second-highest class of Michigan prep football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really like playing on the defensive side of the ball and I\u2019m a stronger player on the defensive side of the ball,\u201d Jilek told the Pioneer Press. \u201cTo have an offer to play (there) in the Big Ten is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jilek visited Minnesota for the Nevada nonconference game in September 2024, but the U\u2019s scholarship offer didn\u2019t come until this September.<\/p>\n<p>Jilek is the 24th commit in the Gophers 2026 class and the second addition this week, following Ellsworth, Wis., tight end George Rohl, who flipped his pledge from North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan prep prospect Charlie Jilek flipped his commitment from Central Florida to the Gophers football program on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":270702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1369,1318,62804,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-270701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gophers-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115302102736822153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}