UPDATE: Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" has a post about Holmes committing to UMass and some quotes from him.
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Taishan Holmes a 6-2 300 pound DT from Garden City C.C. has verbaled to UMass.
I blogged about Holmes back on November 4th.
Holmes is the second DT in the 2020 recruiting class. According the the 247Sports UMass scholarship distribution page, the Minutemen have zero senior or junior defensive tackles, which shows the state of the roster. All the 2019 freshmen DL's played this year.
If Holmes comes in for Spring semester, UMass might be able to assign him to the 2019 class, which would open another slot for 2020. See rule #2 here. The Minutemen were probably under the 25 man limit in 2019.
Welcome to UMass and I hope he has a great career with the Minutemen.