{"id":80857,"date":"2025-12-04T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80857\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:06:08","slug":"long-beach-polys-jaden-hernandez-and-anthony-rodriguez-sign-to-play-at-collegiate-level-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80857\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Poly\u2019s Jaden Hernandez And Anthony Rodriguez Sign To Play At Collegiate Level \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

The562\u2019s football coverage for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell \u201cWoWo\u201d Moe, Jr. & Tyson Ruffins.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a special afternoon at Long Beach Poly as Anthony Rodriguez and Jaden Hernandez signed their commitments to play football at the collegiate level on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rodriguez officially signed with UC Davis, while Hernandez signed with Colorado State.<\/p>\n

Hernandez has been the ultimate X-factor for the Jackrabbits lining up on both sides of the ball \u2013 doing whatever Poly needed. The senior compiled 400 yards receiving and three touchdowns offensively and had six sacks defensively this year. With his versatility Hernandez was named Moore League utility player of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe job\u2019s not finished, so we\u2019re gonna keep working,\u201d Hernandez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The decision didn\u2019t come without some uncertainty for Hernandez as Colorado State parted ways with head coach Jay Norvell and hired Jim Mora to be his replacement last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still figuring out if the coaching staff is going to stay or not,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cBut, I like coach Mora and what he has planned for Colorado State, so I trust in his process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hernandez joins a small contingent of Poly alum in Colorado as he\u2019ll play alongside former jackrabbits Darius Curry and Tay Lanier.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez\u2019s path to the college level was different than Hernandez and included picking up shoulder pads for the first time his freshman year. Four years of honing his craft paid dividends this summer when Rodriguez picked up his offer from UC Davis during Poly\u2019s 7v7 Legends Invitational.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to first and foremost thank you to Davis and my coaching staff for helping me to get my first offer,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cI\u2019m just very blessed to be able to commit because people can receive offers and then not be able to commit. And (Davis) said \u2018We\u2019re fully committed with you and we want you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez finished the season being named the Moore League\u2019s offensive lineman of the year \u2013 proof of what he was able to accomplish as one of the anchors for the Jackrabbits\u2019 line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s football coverage for the 2025-26 school year is sponsored by Long Beach Poly alums Wendell \u201cWoWo\u201d Moe,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-80857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857","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=80857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}