The Gophers football program gained a commitment from Texas prep running back Ryan Estrada on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201c1,000% Committed,\u201d Estrada wrote on X.<\/p>\n
The 5-foot-9, 195-pound tailback from El Paso had offers from Michigan, Alabama, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Missouri and others. He visited Ann Arbor, Mich., in early June, came to Dinkytown last weekend and was scheduled to go to Tuscaloosa, Ala., this weekend.<\/p>\n
Estrada is a four-star prospect, according to 247Sports Composite ranking<\/a>, and pegged as the 20th running back in the nation. The addition of Estrada comes after the U gained five pledges on Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n Estrada rushed for 2,261 yards and 31 touchdowns\u00a0 at El Dorado High School in 2024. Vikings running back Aaron Jones is also from El Paso and praised Estrada.<\/p>\n \u201cProud of the young men in EP,\u201d Jones wrote in Instagram. \u201cHolding it down. They can\u2019t sleep forever.\u201d<\/p>\n Estrada is the 22nd commit in the Gophers class for 2026 and its second running back joining Ezekiel Bates of Malvern, Pa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gophers football program gained a commitment from Texas prep running back Ryan Estrada on Tuesday. \u201c1,000% Committed,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[339,7,1454,49,48,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-137737","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\/114700379990056530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137737","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=137737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}