{"id":5658,"date":"2017-02-01T13:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2017-05-22T00:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T04:04:16","slug":"ucla-lands-db-elijah-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2017\/02\/01\/ucla-lands-db-elijah-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA lands DB Elijah Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UCLA Bruins landed elite defensive back <strong>Elijah Gates<\/strong>\u00a0on signing day. Pitts is a 5-11, 170 pound corner back from Buena Park High School in Buena Park, CA. He is ranked as a top 10 defensive back recruit in the west by Scout.com and Rivals.com. He had been considered a heavy lean to Oregon but verbally committed to UCLA early last week after an in-home visit from Bruins head coach <strong>Jim Mora<\/strong> and defensive line coach <strong>Demetrice Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>UCLA lands DB Elijah Gates<\/h2>\n<p>Gates played both sides of the ball at Buena Park, as a receiver on offense as well as a kick and punt returner. He had nearly 1,000 all-purpose yards his senior year. Because UCLA lost three-fourths of its starting defensive backfield, it is believed that if Gates has a chance for early playing time, it will be exclusively on the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UCLA Bruins landed elite defensive back Elijah Gates\u00a0on signing day. Pitts is a 5-11, 170 pound corner back from Buena Park High School in Buena Park, CA. He is ranked as a top 10 defensive back recruit in the west by Scout.com and Rivals.com. He had been considered a heavy lean to Oregon but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":135,"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":[2,4],"tags":[1418,720,1413,208],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pac12","tag-elijah-gates","tag-jim-mora","tag-national-signing-day","tag-ucla-bruins"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","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=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}