{"id":772547,"date":"2026-02-24T06:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/772547\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:07:13","slug":"gunner-rivers-son-of-nfl-qb-philip-rivers-commits-to-nc-state-football-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/772547\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunner Rivers, son of NFL QB Philip Rivers, commits to NC State football :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quarterback Gunner Rivers committed to NC State football on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stmichaelfb\/status\/2026070888202862838\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to an X post from his high school football team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers is the son of longtime NFL quarterback Philip Rivers,<br \/>\nwho also played at NC State from 2000-2003. The elder Rivers is NC State\u2019s<br \/>\nall-time leading passer (13,484 yards).<\/p>\n<p>The younger Rivers also received scholarship offers from Auburn, Boston<br \/>\nCollege, Miami and South Carolina, <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/gunner-rivers-46143876\/\">according to<br \/>\n247Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>247Sports lists<br \/>\nGunner Rivers as a four-star recruit, the 42nd nationally ranked prospect<br \/>\nand the sixth-best quarterback in the 2027 class. He is listed at 6-foot-3.5<br \/>\nand 205 pounds. He attends St. Michael Catholic in Fairhope, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>247Sports lists NC State offensive coordinator Kurk Roper as<br \/>\nthe person who recruited Gunner Rivers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to our QB on his commitment to NC State <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PackFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PackFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateCoachD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@StateCoachD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoachKurtRoper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CoachKurtRoper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoachAlexFaulk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CoachAlexFaulk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NuncCoepi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NuncCoepi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Q8lnKuSgO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5Q8lnKuSgO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Michael Football (@StMichaelFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StMichaelFB\/status\/2026070888202862838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 23, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Gunner Rivers committed to NC State football on Monday, according to an X post from his high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[8308,331,8175,7,31594,47422,3725],"class_list":{"0":"post-772547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-acc-football","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-dave-doeren","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nc-state-sports","13":"tag-nc-state-football","14":"tag-philip-rivers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116124112986217331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772547","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=772547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}