{"id":21841,"date":"2012-01-19T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21841"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:50:44","slug":"nelson-commits-to-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21841","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Commits to Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18085\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Nelson3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18085\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18085 \" title=\"Nelson3\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Nelson3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.R. Nelson&#39;s move to running back in 2011 paid off.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wilson&#8217;s JR Nelson has committed to the University of Montana and will officially sign in February.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nelson gained 1,704 yards this past fall on 211 carries and scored 13 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Nelson moved from wide receiver, where he caught 38 passes in 2010 for six touchdowns, to running back.<\/p>\n<p>In four years at Wilson, Nelson was under three different head coaches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having\u00a0three head coaches in four years, going 6-34 over that time, and changing my senior year to\u00a0running back\u00a0instead of wide receiver\u00a0made me wonder about my opportunities,&#8221; Nelson told Scout.com. &#8220;But it has worked out well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson&#8217;s JR Nelson has committed to the University of Montana and will officially sign in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,12816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24662,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841\/revisions\/24662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}