{"id":414466,"date":"2026-01-18T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414466\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:09:10","slug":"4-star-rb-signee-brandon-smith-will-not-play-for-arizona-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414466\/","title":{"rendered":"4-star RB signee Brandon Smith will not play for Arizona Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona signed more than 20 high school and junior college players in December, putting together a solid recruiting class that features a few players who could make instant impacts. Brandon Smith won\u2019t be one of those, nor will he be joining the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot, 185-pound Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdesertswarm.com\/football\/2025\/6\/29\/24454844\/arizona-wildcats-football-recruiting-brandon-smith-commitment-california-running-back-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">committed to the UA<\/a> last June, picking the Wildcats after previously choosing San Diego State. He signed in December after a stellar senior season at Central East High School where ran for 1,790 yards and 27 touchdowns and added five receiving scores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith is the second member of Arizona\u2019s 2025 signing class to pull out after the fact. Last month 3-star Texas safety Griffin Tillis did the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona\u2019s roster is down to six running backs for 2026, led by returning contributors Quincy Craig and Kedrick Reescano and underclassmen Cornelius Warren and Wesley Yarbrough. The Wildcats also signed ex-Marshall RB Antwan Roberts out of the transfer portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona signed more than 20 high school and junior college players in December, putting together a solid recruiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[70113,198660,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-414466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-arizona-football","tag-arizona-recruiting","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414466","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=414466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}