{"id":691963,"date":"2026-06-08T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:31:33","slug":"huge-recruiting-weekend-for-virginia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691963\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Recruiting Weekend For Virginia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiatech.sportswar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/03\/IVM-260319-FB-Practice-0107-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9441722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/virginiatech.sportswar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/03\/IVM-260319-FB-Practice-0107-1.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Tech, James Franklin\" width=\"2100\" height=\"1400\"  \/><\/a>It was a big weekend for Virginia Tech and head coach James Franklin. (Ivan Morozov)<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech is coming off a big official visit weekend that saw the Hokies pick up three commitments, all of whom are rated as four-star prospects by at least one of the recruiting services. And I wasn\u2019t even on vacation!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick recap of the players Tech landed:<\/p>\n<p>OL Junior Saunders, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 247Sports: Four-star, No. 6 player in Va.<br \/>\u2022 Rivals: Three-star, No. 16 player in Va.<br \/>\u2022 ESPN: Four-star, No. 203 player nationally, No. 3 player in VA.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders was one of Tech\u2019s top recruits remaining on the board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/tyrishomes-tsl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tyris_homes_800x160.jpg\" alt=\"Tyris Homes\" width=\"800\" height=\"160\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a big weekend for Virginia Tech and head coach James Franklin. (Ivan Morozov) Virginia Tech is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-691963","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\/691963","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=691963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}