{"id":394872,"date":"2022-11-29T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394872"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:01:19","slug":"rutgers-land-qb-ajani-sheppard","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rutgers-land-qb-ajani-sheppard\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers land QB Ajani Sheppard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iona Prep&#8217;s Ajani Sheppard has committed to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, becoming the third scholarship quarterback on the roster along with Gavin Wimsatt and Evan Simon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Rutgers lands QB commitment from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajani_sheppard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ajani_sheppard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnB_247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShawnB_247<\/a> has the scoop <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTYt1guiKG\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/rTYt1guiKG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bobby Deren (@BobbyDeren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobbyDeren\/status\/1597613760075948034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Scarlet Knights head coach Greg Schiano is a huge supporter of Sheppard, who boasts the physical tools Rutgers need as he&#8217;s also smart and a &#8220;football guy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Sheppard, previously committed to Old Dominion, is a dual-threat who can run and has a strong arm and who places the ball well.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Vedral, the starter the previous two seasons, is out of eligibility and set to graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Sheppard, who also had offers from Army, UConn, Monmouth and Delaware, according to 247Sports, is the 17th member of Rutgers&#8217; 2023 recruiting class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iona Prep&#8217;s Ajani Sheppard has committed to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, becoming the third scholarship quarterback on the roster along with Gavin Wimsatt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394873,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Sheppard, who also had offers from Army, UConn, Monmouth and Delaware","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394872"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394872"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}