{"id":1693,"date":"2015-07-23T22:31:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T02:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:17:29","slug":"vols-make-final-five-for-georgia-running-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2015\/07\/23\/vols-make-final-five-for-georgia-running-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Vols make final five for Georgia running back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-star Georgia running back <strong>Elijah Holyfield<\/strong>\u00a0narrowed his list from 10 schools, down to just five on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina and <strong>Tennessee<\/strong> made the cut for Holyfield, according to Chad Simmons of Scout.com<\/p>\n<p>The son of former boxing legend Evander Holyfield, Elijah is a widely considered one of the top five tailbacks in the country. He&#8217;s rated as a four-star prospect by each of the major recruiting services.<\/p>\n<p>On Tennessee, Holyfield <a href=\"http:\/\/recruiting.blog.ajc.com\/2015\/07\/23\/did-uga-make-elijah-holyfields-top-five\/\">told the Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a>, &#8220;<em>(Running backs coach Robert) Gillespie has been one of my favorite recruiters throughout this process and he\u2019s a really great guy. I really enjoy it up there.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He plans to announce his\u00a0commitment in early September.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will be committing on September 4 at Woodward Academy. #12+1<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elijah Holyfield (@EH_taught_me) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EH_taught_me\/status\/624371814626664448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Forum discussion:\u00a0<a id=\"thread_title_218221\" href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-recruiting\/218221-16-ga-rb-elijah-holyfield.html\"><strong>&#8217;16 GA RB Elijah Holyfield<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-star Georgia running back Elijah Holyfield\u00a0narrowed his list from 10 schools, down to just five on Thursday. Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee made the cut for Holyfield, according to Chad Simmons of Scout.com The son of former boxing legend Evander Holyfield, Elijah is a widely considered one of the top five tailbacks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennessee-vols-football","tag-elijah-holyfield"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}