Four-star RB Javin Simpkins releases top five schools

Four-star Miami (Fla.) Norland running back Javin Simpkins announced on Wednesday that he has narrowed his list of choices down to five programs.

Simpkins has 19 reported offers on his resume, but has trimmed things down to five finalists, a group that includes the Texas Longhorns.

Arkansas, Georgia Tech, Louisville, and UCF are the other schools still under consideration by the 5’9, 175-pounder.

Simpkins was offered by the Longhorns last August and was previously committed to Longhorns running backs coach Tashard Choice while he was at Georgia Tech. Once Choice departed for USC and eventually Texas, Simpkins reopened his recruitment and has sense been in touch with Choice since his arrival in…