{"id":120590,"date":"2026-01-05T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:02:30","slug":"texas-am-adds-fresno-state-tight-end-via-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120590\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M adds Fresno State tight end via transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(KBTX) &#8211; The Texas A&amp;M football team received a commitment from Fresno State transfer tight end Richie Anderson III Sunday, his agent Ty Stover confirmed with KBTX. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In two seasons with the Bulldogs, Anderson tallied 447 yards on 49 catches and three receiving touchdowns. Of that, 300 yards and three touchdowns were a part of Fresno State\u2019s 2025 campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He is one of four transfer commitments the Aggies received Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/05\/texas-am-adds-tulsa-linebacker-out-via-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/05\/texas-am-adds-tulsa-linebacker-out-via-transfer\/\">including Tulsa linebacker Ray Coney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/05\/texas-am-gets-commitment-lsu-transfer-ol\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/05\/texas-am-gets-commitment-lsu-transfer-ol\/\">LSU offensive lineman Coen Echols<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/05\/texas-am-adds-colorado-transfer-safety\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/05\/texas-am-adds-colorado-transfer-safety\/\">Colorado safety Tawfiq Byard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 6-foot-4, 255-pound tight end was a 3-star recruit as a linebacker out of Tualatin High School (Tualatin, Or.). He played both linebacker and tight end in high school and was a two-time all-state selection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anderson is the second tight end the Aggies have added out of the portal in this window, following former UTSA and College Station High School\u2019s Houston Thomas. A&amp;M lost tight end Nate Boerkicher to eligibility and Theo Melin \u00d6hrstr\u00f6m to the transfer portal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anderson\u2019s commitment was first reported by Gig\u2019em 247\u2019s Carter Karels and Joseph Hastings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stay up to date on all of Texas A&amp;M\u2019s dealings in the transfer portal with our running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/02\/texas-am-football-2026-transfer-portal-tracker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/2026\/01\/02\/texas-am-football-2026-transfer-portal-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer Portal Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KBTX) &#8211; The Texas A&amp;M football team received a commitment from Fresno State transfer tight end Richie Anderson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,742,63542,8936],"class_list":{"0":"post-120590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-fresno-state","12":"tag-richie-anderson-iii","13":"tag-texas-am"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}