{"id":19221,"date":"2025-10-24T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19221\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:31:10","slug":"texas-to-host-florida-state-lb-commit-karon-maycock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19221\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas to host Florida State LB commit Karon Maycock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the 2025 class, the Texas Longhorns took advantage of the struggles in Tallahassee to flip two Florida State Seminoles commits \u2014 Lucas Lovejoy wide receiver Daylan McCutcheon and Port Charlotte (Fla.) defensive tackle Myron Charles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Thursday, head coach Steve Sarkisian and his staff extended an offer in the Sunshine State hoping to take advantage of the continued demise of the Mike Norvell era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pledged to Florida State since February, Miami Central linebacker Karon Maycock quickly set up a visit to Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rivals\/status\/1981717938550833221\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to Rivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas remains in pursuit of options at the linebacker position, including Colorado product Brayon Hodge, a former Michigan State commit who took an unofficial visit to Austin in September for the win over Sam Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maycock, a 6\u20191, 200-pounder also took summer official visits to Alabama, Syracuse, and Florida despite his pledge to Florida State. A consensus three-star prospect, Maycock is ranked as the No. 663 player nationally and the No. 50 linebacker, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At linebacker, the Horns currently hold pledges the nation\u2019s No. 2 linebacker, Tyler Atkinson, and Houston product Kosi Okpala, who may project more favorably at the edge position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 2025 class, the Texas Longhorns took advantage of the struggles in Tallahassee to flip two Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,11161,11163],"class_list":["post-19221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}