{"id":335051,"date":"2023-09-30T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=335051"},"modified":"2023-09-30T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T03:00:20","slug":"ready-for-primetime-colorado-commit-ends-senior-season-early-to-focus-on-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=335051","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Primetime: Colorado commit ends senior season early to focus on college football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a handful of years, college football players have been forgoing bowl games in increasing numbers to get prepared for the NFL draft. Aaron Butler, a Colorado football commit, is cutting short his high school career so as to focus on his college one with head coach Deion Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>A four-star athlete, Butler did not play last week for Calabasas High School (Calabasas, California). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/calabasas\/calabasas-coyotes\/football\/\">The Coyotes entered the weekend with a 2-3 record.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Butler is a consensus four-star player in the 2024 recruiting class. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/aaron-butler-876\/\">Both ESPN and 247Sports ranks him as a top 75 player in the nation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highschool.si.com\/california\/2023\/09\/29\/aaron-butler-colorado-football-commit-steps-away-for-rest-of-high-school-season\">According to Tarek Fattal of Sports Illustrated&#8217;s Fan Nation<\/a>, Butler is still currently enrolled in high school but will not be playing any more games. According to Calabasas head coach Cary Harris, Butler &#8220;has informed our staff he&#8217;s stepping away from the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His goal is to graduate early and enroll at Colorado this spring. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/recruiting\/football\/story\/_\/id\/37664462\/aaron-butler-no-80-recruit-2024-espn-300-picks-colorado\">He committed to the program in mid-May.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capable of playing both sides of the ball, Butler likely gets a look first by Colorado as a wide receiver when he arrives this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders currently has Colorado at 3-1 (0-1 Pac 12) and exceeding many expectations in his first year in Boulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Aaron Butler is expected to join the Colorado football program this spring.<\/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\/335051"}],"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=335051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335052,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335051\/revisions\/335052"}],"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=335051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}