The Florida Gators picked up their fourth commitment of the week on Friday afternoon when they picked up a playmaker on the offensive side of the ball.\n<\/p>\n
Running back Andrew Beard (5-9, 195, Bogart, GA. Prince Avenue Christian) committed to Florida over Clemson, Georgia, and Tennessee on Friday.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the next three to four years, I\u2019ll be committing to the Universitu of Florida,\u201d Beard said\n<\/p>\n
Beard is the first running back to commit to the Florida this cycle and the Georgia native has been a top target for the Gators since Jon Sumrall and his staff took over in Gainesville.\n<\/p>\n
Clemson had the early lead in Beard\u2019s recruitment but a spring visit to Gainesville last month really turned the momentum towards Florida after he was able to meet the staff and see how they coach in-person.\n<\/p>\n
Beard had a productive junior year where he carried the ball 165 times for 1,292 yards and 13 touchdowns. He also added 31 catches for 450 yards and another five touchdowns receiving.\n<\/p>\n
In two seasons at Prince Avenue, Beard has rushed for 3,229 yards and 34 touchdowns and has ran for 100 yards in 16 games.\n<\/p>\n
The Gators will now turn their attention to adding a second running back in the class and they\u2019re after top targets Gary Walker, Tranard Roberts, and Trey Martin to add to Beard in the class.\n<\/p>\n
Now that Beard has committed, the Gators sit with 14 commits in the Class of 2027 and are in the top 10 in team recruiting rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Gators picked up their fourth commitment of the week on Friday afternoon when they picked up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-632408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632408","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=632408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}