{"id":675084,"date":"2026-05-31T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:03:09","slug":"rutgers-football-lands-north-carolina-edge-josiah-sturdivant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675084\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Football lands North Carolina EDGE Josiah Sturdivant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Football continues to stake its recruiting flag in North Carolina and has added another piece to its 2027 class. The Scarlet Knights landed a commitment from 2027 edge rusher Josiah Sturdivant<\/a>, he announced on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love the atmosphere, it feels like home,\u201d Sturdivant told TKR. \u201cThe players are connected and everyone takes things seriously. I feel like that\u2019s where I belong and coach (Greg) Schiano is a great guy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-4, 225-pounder out of Wake Forest High School (NC)<\/a>, Sturdivant becomes the second commit of the class from the Tar Heel State, joining linebacker Moses Poku-Kankam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sturdivant\u2019s recruitment came together pretty quickly, as he first earned his Rutgers offer on May 22nd, a week before his Official Visit. He eventually scheduled that visit two days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo coach (Travis) Johansen<\/a> came to see me during practice, and he liked what he saw,\u201d Sturdivant told TKR after earning his offer. \u201cCoach Scott (Vallone)<\/a> came down, and he asked to do a home visit. He told me I already had the offer, but Coach (Greg) Schiano<\/a> just had to say it that Friday. He got me on the phone, asked a few questions, and then told me I had the offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vallone continues to be the staff\u2019s top recruiter in North Carolina, regardless of offensive or defensive prospects.<\/p>\n

The Scarlet Knights gave Sturdivant his first Power Four offer, as he also held FBS offers from Kent State<\/a>, Old Dominion<\/a>, and East Carolina<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He was originally set to take other Official Visits with the Pirates on June 11th and the Monarchs on June 19th. With his commitment to Rutgers, those visits will no longer happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping to see the brotherhood and make sure that I could fit into, and a place that feels like home,\u201d Sturdivant added.<\/p>\n

Sturdivant becomes the tenth member of the 2027 recruiting class for Rutgers Football, as the class continues to grow with a high-level first weekend of visits on the docket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rutgers Football continues to stake its recruiting flag in North Carolina and has added another piece to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,294366,398,396,397,19808,217654,99],"class_list":["post-675084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-josiah-sturdivant-27-wake-forest","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nj","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights-piscataway","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675084","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=675084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}