{"id":42090,"date":"2021-12-15T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=42090"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:00:32","slug":"bruins-get-jack-pedersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2021\/12\/15\/bruins-get-jack-pedersen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Get Jack Pedersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA being a gateway to the NFL for tight ends has paid off, as the Bruins get <strong>Jack Pedersen<\/strong> in the 2022 signing class.<\/p>\n<p>Pedersen is a 6-4, 235-pound recruit out of Vista Murrieta. His ranked as the #7 tight end in the country. \u00a0He is an Under Armour All-American who spent his junior year at the IMG Academy in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He has 372 career receiving yards with seven touchdowns. Most of that was in his senior year, where he had 21 catches for 283 yards and six touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Pedersen is rated as a four-star recruit in the 247Sports Composite.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, UCLA has provided the NFL with tight ends like <strong>Caleb Wilson<\/strong> and <strong>Devin Asiasi<\/strong>. Our conversations with scouts also tell us that current tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/greg-dulcich-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Dulcich<\/a> is highly regarded. Dulcich is eligible for another year at UCLA and has not made any announcement on his future plans.<\/p>\n<p>Pedersen is more of a traditional tight end, than many recently who have been large receivers. He is a strong in-line blocker, able to man-handle a defensive end as well as get to the second level and make a block on a linebacker or safety, while still being a natural pass catcher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Priebe<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Ezeike<\/strong>, and <strong>Mike Martinez<\/strong> are also eligible to come back as tight ends for UCLA in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Pedersen had 22 offers in all, including from USC, Ole Miss, Oregon, Arkansas, and Boise State. UCLA tight end coach <strong>Derek Sage<\/strong> was instrumental in closing on Pedersen. He will wait until after Spring to enroll at UCLA so that he can play one final season of baseball at Vista Murrieta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Image courtesy Vista Murrieta Football<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA being a gateway to the NFL for tight ends has paid off, as the Bruins get Jack Pedersen in the 2022 signing class. Pedersen is a 6-4, 235-pound recruit out of Vista Murrieta. His ranked as the #7 tight end in the country. \u00a0He is an Under Armour All-American who spent his junior year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":42091,"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":[2,7316],"tags":[7246,7839,8187,8468,208],"class_list":["post-42090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-recruiting","tag-2021-early-signing-period","tag-class-of-2022-recruiting","tag-greg-dulcich","tag-jack-pedersen","tag-ucla-bruins"],"modified_by":"Kate Pearson Halyburton, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42090","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\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}