CHARLOTTE, N.C. --- Four-star defensive lineman Kedrick Bingley-Jones verbally committed to North Carolina on Saturday during a ceremony at Providence Day School.

"It was the family atmosphere," Bingley-Jones said. "Coach [Tim] Cross played a big deal in it. And then Coach [Mack] Brown and all the defensive staff, and then Coach [Lonnie] Galloway, they just all connected with me. I hear from all of them every day. They just treated me like a priority. And, it's close to home so my family can just come straight down the road and see me play, instead of having to go seven hours to see me play and not many [family members] showing up."

Bingley-Jones, a 6-foot-5, 266-pounder, selected the Tar Heels over fellow finalists Duke, Florida, and Ohio State. In addition to those four schools, he received scholarship offers from Florida State, Georgia, Louisville, Maryland, Miami, Michigan, Mississippi State, NC State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, South Carolina, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest.

In June, Bingley-Jones took official visits to all four finalists.

Lonnie Galloway led UNC's courting of Bingley-Jones. Galloway began recruiting Bingley-Jones as an assistant at Louisville.

Originally, Bingley-Jones committed to Florida a year ago. He withdrew that pledge last January.

Bingley-Jones is the fifth four-star -- and 22nd overall recruit -- to pledge to UNC. He joins a class that had already included four-stars Jacolby Criswell, Josh Downs, Myles Murphy, Cameron Roseman-Sinclair, and Ethan West.

In addition to his four-star rating, the 247Sports Composite ranks Bingley-Jones as the No. 160 best overall prospect and 16th best defensive tackle.

"He's a guy that does everything right," Kannapolis (N.C.) Brown High head coach Mike Newsome said. "He's smart, so he watches game film and learns his opponent. He's relentless and gets after it each and every snap. He plays extremely hard. He moves well, so he makes plays -- not just the typical plays that defensive linemen should make, but he makes plays that maybe the linebacker should make or maybe the plays that maybe the DB should make. He's explosive, he's powerful -- really, he has as much of the total game as anybody that I've seen play at the D-line position.

"He's a great academic kid, too. His grades are excellent. He's a 4.0 student."

Bingley-Jones transferred from Brown High to Providence Day School prior to his junior year.

As a junior, Bingley-Jones led Providence Day School in sacks with eight and was named first-team NCISAA 11-man All-State. He also collected 52 tackles and caused two fumbles.

UNC's commitment list now sits at 16th in the nation and fourth in the ACC.