{"id":19934,"date":"2025-10-23T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:48:23","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-sign-preston-judd-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19934\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes sign Preston Judd to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:  Extension<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-jose-earthquakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Earthquakes<\/a> have signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/preston-judd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Preston Judd<\/a> to a contract extension through 2027 with an option for 2028, the club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old joined the Earthquakes in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/la-galaxy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Galaxy<\/a> ahead of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>After scoring one goal in 26 league appearances last year, Judd enjoyed a breakout season in 2025, producing 7g\/2a across 29 MLS appearances (10 starts) to establish himself as a key contributor in San Jose&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>Judd has also found a knack for delivering in the big moments, producing three game-winning contributions (2g\/1a) while earning a pair of Team of the Matchday selections this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be coming back to San Jose,\u201d said Judd. \u201cThis season didn\u2019t end the way we wanted, but we&#8217;ll build on the progress we made toward next season and use it as motivation to help us reach the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Extension The San Jose Earthquakes have signed forward Preston Judd to a contract extension through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[16465,88,1084,90,89,6532,16459],"class_list":{"0":"post-19934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-preston-judd","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-earthquakes","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-sendtonews","14":"tag-transfer-tracker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}