Juan Harris, 2017 4-star defensive tackle from West Union, IA (North Fayette) has once again committed to Iowa. Harris announced his re-commitment to the Hawkeyes on Twitter early this morning.

This marks the third time that Harris has committed to Iowa. He first made his commitment back in December 1st of 2014. At the time he was Iowa's first 2017 commitment and a big one at that. A month later, he decommitted though, not wanting to talk about his decision, but he did name a Top 3 of Ohio State, Alabama and Oregon.

Harris came back to Iowa weeks later to attend the eite junior day and ended up committing again. He cited family reasons as the reasoning behind his decommitment.

"Well the reason I decommited was cause of family issues and a disagreement between my family," Harris said. He went on to let us know that the disagreement has been resolved. After today's elite junior day in Iowa City, which Harris was invited to despite being a sophomore, Harris again committed to Iowa. "It went great," he said of the elite junior day visit to Iowa City. "Feels great to be apart of something great."

Harris remained committed to Iowa's 2017 class for almost two months before decommitting again on March 16th, 2015.

Is it surprising that he re-committed to Iowa, again? Not really.

The 4-star has recently told VOTH that the Hawkeyes would be the No. 1 on his list and that Iowa would be the only school he'd visit his junior year. He did say that he was planning on ending his recruitment midway through his junior year, though, so if anything, the timing is a bit surprising.

Iowa has obviously made an impact on the 4-star defensive tackle, but the question is: Will that impact stick?

We've still got a long way to go until National Signing Day 2016 let alone Signing Day 2017, so there's a lot of time available for Harris to change his mind. He does have a history of doing that, to say the least.

Wisconsin, Louisville, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas, Tulane, Utah, Vanderbilt and Virginia have all also offered Harris, and it's very possible that he'll receive more offers in the future. Keep in mind, despite his knack for decommitting, Harris is a highly ranked recruit, so without a doubt he has talent that college teams would love to have. Per the industry generated 247Sports Composite, he's ranked as the No. 21 defensive tackle in the 2017 class, and he's also the No. 1 2017 recruit from the state of Iowa.

Harris checks in at 6-foot-4, 387 pounds.

For reasons that I'm sure make sense to everybody, for right now we're going to go ahead and label Harris as a "soft" commitment. It's only logical at this juncture to wait and see if time changes or affirms his verbal pledge to Iowa.

EDIT: I did get a chance to talk with Harris today and he asked me to change the status of his commitment to the Hawkeyes from "soft" to "hard". I asked for an explanation and he gave it. "I'm shutting down other schools and Iowa will be the only school I visit and camp for," he told VOTH. This goes along with what he posted shortly after committing.

Harris re-joins Iowa's 2017 class as its second verbal commitment. Coy Kirkpatrick, unranked defensive end from Madrid, IA (Madrid) committed to the Hawkeyes' 2017 class on June 8th.