{"id":12944,"date":"2025-04-30T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12944\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:42:11","slug":"gophers-football-adds-pennsylvania-running-back-to-2026-class-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/12944\/","title":{"rendered":"Gophers football adds Pennsylvania running back to 2026 class \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gophers football program received a commitment from Pennsylvania prep running back Ezekiel Bates on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Listed at 5-foot-11 and 210 pounds, Bates received offers from Boston College, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and more than a dozen others. The Malvern Prep School product, who also received interest from Michigan State, visited the U during spring practices in late March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1000% committed! Let\u2019s Work!\u201d Bates wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Bates, who does not yet have a star rating from recruiting services, was offered by the U on Feb. 19. He is the ninth high school player, and first tailback, to commit to the U for the 2026 recruiting class.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: April 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gophers football program received a commitment from Pennsylvania prep running back Ezekiel Bates on Wednesday. Listed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[339,7,1454,49,48,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-12944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gophers-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114427916686496919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}