{"id":321723,"date":"2023-08-06T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=321723"},"modified":"2023-08-06T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:58:17","slug":"5-star-safety-kj-bolden-commits-to-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=321723","title":{"rendered":"5-star safety KJ Bolden commits to Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month after announcing his top five programs, five-star safety KJ Bolden has verbally committed to his school of choice among the 40 programs that offered him: The Buford High School (Ga.) star will attend Florida State.<\/p>\n<p>He posted a graphic on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KhalilBolden2\/status\/1688003909422338049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, announcing his choice as the Seminoles and saying &#8220;I&#8217;m home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bolden is ranked on 247Sports as the No. 1 safety in the class, No. 7 player overall and second-best high school player in Georgia, trailing only his teammate and new quarterback Dylan Raiola. With that No. 7 placement in the class of 2024, Bolden is the highest-ranked the recruit to commit to the Seminoles since Cam Akers (also No. 7) in 2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m home <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f362.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf62\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayesfawcett3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hayesfawcett3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coach_Norvell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Coach_Norvell<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u3w9uw62vI\">pic.twitter.com\/u3w9uw62vI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Khalil \u201cKJ\u201dBolden (@KhalilBolden2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KhalilBolden2\/status\/1688003909422338049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bolden chose Florida State over his other top-5 programs that he announced in July, which were Alabama, Auburn, Georgia and Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals reporter John Garcia said that Georgia was long considered the favorite for the star recruit, but a trip about a month ago to Florida State <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/3-programs-have-a-shot-for-kj-bolden-on-the-eve-of-his-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;started to shift some conversation.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Seminoles now have 22 commits to the program, including fellow five-star Landen Thomas, a tight end out of Colquitt County (Moultrie, Ga). and six four-star players. It&#8217;s still rather early in the process, but Florida State&#8217;s class of 2024 is ranked No. 4 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>KJ Bolden, a star high school Georgia safety, committed to Florida State over the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321725,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321723\/revisions\/321725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}