{"id":113585,"date":"2026-01-07T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113585\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:35:07","slug":"lb-taurean-york-declares-for-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113585\/","title":{"rendered":"LB Taurean York declares for 2026 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">Two-year captain linebacker Taurean York took to social media to announce he will forgo\u00a0his senior season to enter the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">&#8220;The past three years have been absolutely incredible for me,&#8221; York said in the statement posted to his X account. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud of everything I accomplished wearing the maroon and white, but I know this is just the beginning. This move marks the start of my professional journey and I&#8217;m committed to elevating my game to the highest level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">This season, York received third-team All-SEC honors and led the team with 72 tackles. He recorded seven tackles for a loss, one sack, five quarterback hurries, three pass breakups and a forced fumble.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">In his three seasons leading the Aggies, York tallied 228 tackles, 25 tackles for a loss, 6\u00bd sacks, one interception, eight defended passes, one forced fumble and two fumble recoveries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">The Temple native came to A&amp;M as a three-star in the 2023 class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">A&amp;M will now look for a new leader on defense, and has added Tulsa linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/aggies\/article\/transfer-portal-texas-am-aggies-football-sec-21265904.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Ray Coney<\/a> to the mix via the transfer portal. He\u00a0now looks set to take over York&#8217;s middle linebacker spot for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">Reach Texas A&amp;M beat reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.Catalina@statesman.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-year captain linebacker Taurean York took to social media to announce he will forgo\u00a0his senior season to enter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6183,35413,27,6992,29,28],"class_list":["post-113585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-nfl-draft","tag-taurean-york","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-football","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}