{"id":117995,"date":"2026-01-10T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:52:10","slug":"texas-tech-lands-veteran-te-jett-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117995\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech lands veteran TE Jett Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nevada tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jett-carpenter-190655\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jett Carpenter<\/a> has announced his commitment to Texas Tech, giving the Red Raiders another legitimate option at the position to go along with returner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/terrance-carter-111321\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terrance Carter Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter visited Lubbock on Monday, January 5th and announced his pledge just days later. He also visited Mississippi State at the beginning of the transfer portal opening.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 258 pound Carpenter is a veteran of six college football seasons. He spent his first five seasons at Eastern Washington before heading to Nevada prior to the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He is coming off his most productive season to date, his first and only as a Wolf Pack. He played in all 12 regular season games for Nevada, starting 11 of them. <\/p>\n<p>Playing a career-high 559 offensive snaps, Carpenter made 35 catches for 374 yards and two touchdowns. He finished the season with an offensive grade of 70.2 per Pro Football Focus. He also contributed with 92 snaps on special teams.<\/p>\n<p>Following the season he was named All-Mountain West Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this season, he spent the first five of his career with the Eastern Washington Eagles of the Big Sky Conference in the FCS, where he totaled 14 catches for 94 yards and two scores.<\/p>\n<p>At Texas Tech he will join a tight ends room that includes Terrance Carter Jr., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/matt-ludwig-240833\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moose Ludwig<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/sean-robinson-176932\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Robinson<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation with other Red Raiders on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/boards\/forums\/inside-the-double-t.282\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inside The Double T<\/a>\u00a0forum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/register\/?returnto=\/boards\/forums\/inside-the-double-t.282\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe today<\/a>\u00a0to get the most in-depth Texas Tech sports and recruiting coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/redraidersports?s=21&amp;t=lBfTSdY9NaAjam8V0TzQBg\" rel=\"nofollow\">@RedRaiderSports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like and follow us on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rrs_rivals?igsh=MWMyNDRsazdnMG5lZA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@rrs_rivals<\/a>\u00a0&amp; like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/redraidersports?mibextid=LQQJ4d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Nevada tight end Jett Carpenter has announced his commitment to Texas Tech, giving the Red Raiders another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[51738,168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-117995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-jett-carpenter-21-north-medford","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117995","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=117995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}