{"id":329813,"date":"2025-12-04T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329813\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:45:07","slug":"live-updates-from-michigan-wr-commit-travis-johnsons-signing-day-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329813\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates from Michigan WR commit Travis Johnson&#8217;s Signing Day ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/michigan-wolverines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan<\/a> is fending off a push from Virginia Tech late into signing day as it hopes to secure a signature from Rivals300 wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/travis-johnson-158655\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Johnson<\/a>. The Chesapeake (Va.) Oscar Smith High star committed to the Wolverines in June, but the Hokies are taking his recruitment down to the wire. <\/p>\n<p>Our EJ Holland is on site at Johnson\u2019s signing day ceremony. Virginia Tech\u2019s final push is very real and something to monitor closely. We will post constant updates throughout the ceremony that is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. ET. Johnson is the No. 112 recruit in the country and the No. 14 wide receiver prospect nationally. <\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>Travis Johnson signs with Michigan!!12\/03\/2025 03:14:16 PM<\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>But first, other sports12\/03\/2025 03:10:19 PM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are starting off with volleyball.\u201d\u2014 EJ Holland<\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>Oscar Smith\u2019s signing day ceremony begins12\/03\/2025 03:10:28 PM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ceremony is starting with a speech from the athletic director\u201d\u2014 EJ Holland<\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>More optimism 12\/03\/2025 03:05:26 PM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent a few minutes with Travis before the ceremony. I\u2019m optimistic that Michigan will survive this push from Virginia Tech.\u201d \u2014 EJ Holland<\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>A broken phone won\u2019t stop the updates12\/03\/2025 03:04:55 PM<\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>EJ Holland arrives at Oscar Smith 12\/03\/2025 02:34:02 PM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe after school traffic here is crazy. I\u2019m about to get out and head to the auditorium.\u201d \u2014 EJ Holland<\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>Rivals\u2019 Steve Wiltfong with an optimistic update12\/03\/2025 02:23:20 PM<\/p>\n<p>By:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/ethanmcdowell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan McDowell<\/a>Virginia Tech buzz picks up12\/03\/2025 02:20:38 PM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/michigan-wolverines\/news\/michigan-fighting-to-keep-another-key-offensive-commit-on-national-signing-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">From EJ Holland earlier this afternoon:<\/a> \u201cJohnson has a longstanding relationship with new Virginia Tech head coach James Franklin, who recruited the talented pass catcher at Penn State. Franklin is personally leading the charge to keep Johnson close to home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan is fending off a push from Virginia Tech late into signing day as it hopes to secure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,167241],"class_list":{"0":"post-329813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-travis-johnson-26-oscar-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}