{"id":73767,"date":"2025-12-06T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73767\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:02:15","slug":"usf-adds-two-st-pete-preps-on-first-signing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73767\/","title":{"rendered":"USF adds two St. Pete preps on first signing day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 5, 2025 &#8211; South Florida Football has announced the addition of 17 new Bulls, including two from St. Petersburg, as the NCAA Early Signing Period began Wednesday. Dmari Roberts, a standout wide receiver at Lakewood High School, and cornerback Keyshaun Birks, who starred at St. Petersburg Catholic High School, joined the third-rated class in the American Conference. The already-successful class comes despite a coaching transition &#8211; Ohio State offensive coordinator Brian Hartline was named USF&#8217;s seventh head football coach Wednesday in a widely celebrated move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 5, 2025 &#8211; South Florida Football has announced the addition of 17 new Bulls, including two from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-73767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}