{"id":434958,"date":"2024-11-10T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=434958"},"modified":"2024-11-10T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T19:20:21","slug":"ricky-pearsall-scores-1st-nfl-td-in-3rd-game-back-from-shooting","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/florida-football\/ricky-pearsall-scores-1st-nfl-td-in-3rd-game-back-from-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Pearsall scores 1st NFL TD in 3rd game back from shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ricky Pearsall has experienced quite the journey to just suit up for the San Francisco 49ers after being drafted by the club back in April.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">His journey came to a climax Sunday, as Pearsall hauled in his first-career touchdown catch at the professional level against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pearsall caught a crossing route over the middle of the field and beat Bucs&#8217; star safety Antoine Winfield Jr. down the field for the game&#8217;s first score.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First NFL TD for Ricky Pearsall \u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SFvsTB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SFvsTB<\/a> on FOX <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J8kjN1jYLB\">pic.twitter.com\/J8kjN1jYLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/49ers\/status\/1855678055345279177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The former Florida Gator wide receiver was notably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/florida-football\/san-francisco-police-chief-issues-statement-on-shooting-of-former-florida-wr-ricky-pearsall\/\">shot during at attempted armed robbery<\/a> back in late August in San Francisco. Pearsall was hospitalized in serious but stable condition, and he made a full recovery before being able to slowly but surely return to practicing with the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>Pearsall made his season debut against the Kansas City Chiefs on Oct. 20, catching 3 passes for 21 yards. He then seemed to settle in during the following game against the Dallas Cowboys, as he caught 4 passes for 38 yards while also rushing for a 39-yard gain.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, the 46-yard score against the Buccaneers is the first of many for a player who has gone through more challenges in his first season than most NFL rookies ever have to face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Pearsall found the endzone for the first time at the NFL level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399236,"featured_media":434960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-434958","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-florida-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/434958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/399236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}