{"id":87554,"date":"2025-04-08T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/talented-midwest-rb-commits-to-purdue\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:35:45","slug":"talented-midwest-rb-commits-to-purdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/talented-midwest-rb-commits-to-purdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Talented Midwest RB commits to Purdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockwood (Mich.) Carlson running back <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/izaiah-wright-238510\/\">Izaiah Wright<\/a><\/strong> has committed to Purdue.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-10, 200-pound Wright was in West Lafayette over the weekend. He chose to play for first-year head coach Barry Odom and his staff over the likes of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan State, Tennessee and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Wright becomes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/purdue-boilermakers\/football\/2026\/industry-comparison-commits\/\">commit No. 4 for Odom and company in the 2026 class<\/a>. Lamar Conard was the lead recruiter for the Boilers.<\/p>\n<p>The On3 Industry tabs Wright as the No. 44 running back in the country. In nine games as a junior he rushed for 957 yards and 13 touchdowns. He broke out as a sophomore with nearly 2,000 yards on the ground and 31 scores.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/purdue-izaiah-wright-commits-barry-odom\/\">Talented Midwest RB commits to Purdue<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockwood (Mich.) Carlson running back Izaiah Wright has committed to Purdue. The 5-foot-10, 200-pound Wright&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}