{"id":26777,"date":"2019-12-18T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=26777"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:05:49","slug":"richard-leonard-signs-with-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/12\/18\/richard-leonard-signs-with-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Leonard Signs With Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed one of their top offensive linemen commits. Three-star offensive guard and Florida commit <strong>Richard Leonard<\/strong> has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a big signing for the Gators as Leonard was being heavily recruited by Florida State and Miami. But, Mullen likes Leonard\u2019s skillset and needs some offensive lineman as that\u2019s Florida&#8217;s biggest weakness. This is the third offensive lineman Mullen will sign today. Notably, Leonard is one of four offensive linemen in Florida\u2019s 2020 recruiting class with <strong>Issiah Walker<\/strong>, <strong>Gerald Mincey<\/strong>, and <strong>Jovens Janvier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Who is Richard Leonard?<\/h3>\n<p>Leonard is a three-star offensive guard out of Cocoa High School in Cocoa, Florida. The Florida offensive guard commit is one of the top offensive guards in the country. However, he was a tough get for the Gators as Leonard was previously committed to Kentucky. Notably, Leonard signed with Florida over Georgia Tech, Florida State, Kentucky, Miami, Missouri, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>First, on the 247 Sports Composite Rankings, Leonard is the 768<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit and the 46<sup>th<\/sup> ranked offensive guard in the country. Comparatively, on Rivals, Leonard is the 80<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit in Florida and the 14<sup>th<\/sup> ranked offensive guard in the country. In fact, the Gators have added a really solid offensive guard who could really make an impact in the future. Additionally, being an early enrollee, Leonard will get to Florida in January and learn the playbook quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed one of their top offensive linemen commits. Three-star offensive guard and Florida commit Richard Leonard has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a big signing for the Gators as Leonard was being heavily recruited by Florida State and Miami. But, Mullen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":27007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[4537,79,2749,244,1413,126,3026,5747],"class_list":["post-26777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sec","tag-2019-national-signing-day","tag-college-football","tag-early-signing-day","tag-florida-gators","tag-national-signing-day","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaaf","tag-richard-leonard"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77768,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions\/77768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}