{"id":472710,"date":"2023-12-13T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472710"},"modified":"2023-12-13T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T14:49:05","slug":"duke-quarterback-leonard-is-leaving-for-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/duke-quarterback-leonard-is-leaving-for-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke quarterback Leonard is leaving for Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame secured his top QB target today, as the rumor became a reality when Duke transfer Riley Leonard shared on social media that he will continue his college football career with the Fighting Irish.<\/p>\n<p>He will be able to compete immediately for Notre Dame in what will be his final season of eligibility. Riley emerged as 1 of the elite footballers in the portal after an amazing back-to-back campaign at Duke, where the program had 2 high-end campaigns with him on the field.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">COMMITTED: Duke QB Riley Leonard is transferring to the University of Notre Dame, he announced! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoIrish?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoIrish<\/a> \u2618\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Leonard, widely regarded as one of the best dual-threat QBs in college football, chose Notre Dame over Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>Career stats at Duke:<br \/>\n3 seasons<br \/>\n4,450 passing yards<br \/>\n24\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aIiWaVjQ5t\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aIiWaVjQ5t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (@Insidetheirish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Insidetheirish\/status\/1734596276774175087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The crucial reason Leonard chose to continue his career at Notre Dame came from his family. His great-grandfather was part of the school and played football there. Riley grew up in Alabama, but his favorite school since a young age is Notre Dame, as his preferred move is &#8220;Rudy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leonard will become a QB1 at the Fighting Irish immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame secured his top QB target today, as the rumor became a reality when Duke transfer Riley Leonard shared on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":472711,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19523,21838],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[19525,21840,18383,22342],"acf":{"announce":"The Duke's QB decided to transfer to Notre Dame.","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\/472710"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472714,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472710\/revisions\/472714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472710"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472710"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}