{"id":78839,"date":"2026-01-06T00:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:42:11","slug":"bethlehem-catholic-graduate-richardson-headed-to-acc-football-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78839\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Catholic graduate Richardson headed to ACC football champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/sports\/\" title=\"Navigate to Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a>Published: Jan. 05, 2026, 6:56 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Jared Richardson\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BGYHTQAH2BCVNKU6H7BY7NJAFM.jpg\"  \/>Bethlehem Catholic graduate Jared Richardson will transfer to Duke University.Photo courtesy University of Pennsylvania Athletics | John Seiler<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2UOEYCNCBNAT3JDAD3H77IDH6E\">After achieving All-America status at the NCAA Division I FCS level, Bethlehem Catholic graduate Jared Richardson is headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PHGEEUZFVBDXJIDVJRBKYKOWUM\">Richardson, a standout wide receiver at the University of Pennsylvania, will join Duke as a graduate transfer, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/2008245638862184782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/2008245638862184782\">ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YQ45BYNEBRED3D4BOK3M4DWKNI\">Richardson (6-foot-2, 215 pounds) made 80 receptions for 1,033 yards and 12 touchdowns for the Quakers in 2025. He has 2,505 receiving yards and 27 receiving TDs in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D4I6KRNQLBG77GKRP23P4FWM5A\">The former Bethlehem Catholic quarterback was an All-Ivy League first-team selection. He received multiple All-America accolades, including AFCA FCS Coaches first team, Phil Steele FCS first team and FCS Stats Perform second team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"N7VG3MXUXBGSHCP6QWRXY3MRYY\">Duke finished 9-5 after winning the ACC championship in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Craig is the sports managing producer for lehighvalleylive.com. He covers sports across the Lehigh Valley, including high school football, basketball, volleyball and baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SportsPublished: Jan. 05, 2026, 6:56 p.m.Bethlehem Catholic graduate Jared Richardson will transfer to Duke University.Photo courtesy University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-78839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}