Duke dipped into south Florida and landed Marquis Waters, an athletic safety who held over 20 offers.

Safety Marquis Waters (Delray Beach, Fla./Atlantic) took to Twitter indicating a verbal commit to Duke.

Waters chose Duke over 21 other verbal offers including West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Iowa State and Maryland.

Blue Devils secondary coach Derek Jones recruits south Florida for the Blue Devils.

Jones and Blue Devils safeties coach Matt Guerrieri handled this recruitment.

"I really like coach Jones," Waters said. "Duke has great academics and a great staff."

Waters, who prefers to play defensive back in college, also had an offer from Wisconsin to play running back.

The three-star recruit is ranked as the nation's No. 87 safety and the No. 175 prospect in Florida in the 2017 class by 247SportsComposite.

Waters is the 19th verbal commit in the 2017 class for Duke.