{"id":161212,"date":"2026-02-12T06:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:55:18","slug":"record-eight-red-raiders-invited-to-nfl-scouting-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161212\/","title":{"rendered":"Record eight Red Raiders invited to NFL Scouting Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The NFL announced its official invite list on Wednesday for the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine, which included a single-season record eight Red Raiders. A total of 319 prospects were invited to Indianapolis for the event, scheduled for Feb. 23-March 2 at Lucas Oil Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The selections from Texas Tech&#8217;s 2025 Big 12 Championship team included quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/behren-morton\/13738\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13738\" target=\"_blank\">Behren Morton<\/a>; wide receivers <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/caleb-douglas\/13706\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13706\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Douglas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/reggie-virgil\/13784\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13784\" target=\"_blank\">Reggie Virgil<\/a>; defensive linemen <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/david-bailey\/13883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13883\" target=\"_blank\">David Bailey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/skyler-gill-howard\/13785\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13785\" target=\"_blank\">Skyler Gill-Howard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/romello-height\/13792\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13792\" target=\"_blank\">Romello Height<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/lee-hunter\/13789\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13789\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Hunter<\/a>; and linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/jacob-rodriguez\/13749\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13749\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Rodriguez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech, which fielded one of college football&#8217;s most dominant defenses, sends five members of its front seven after leading the Football Bowl Subdivision in rushing defense and ranking third in scoring defense in 2025. Bailey, Gill-Howard, Height, and Hunter are four of the 63 defensive linemen invited to the combine, matching Oklahoma for the most in that position group.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, who finished fifth in the 2025 Heisman Trophy voting, was one of 29 linebackers invited.<\/p>\n<p>Offensively, Morton was one of 15 quarterbacks selected to participate. Douglas and Virgil were among the 46 wide receivers invited.<\/p>\n<p>The eight invitations mark Texas Tech&#8217;s highest total since the 2009 combine, when Michael Crabtree, Graham Harrell, <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/darcel-mcbath\/4304\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4304\" target=\"_blank\">Darcel McBath<\/a>, Louis Vasquez, and Brandon Williams received invitations following the Red Raiders&#8217; 2008 season under coach Mike Leach.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage of the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine begins Feb. 26 on NFL Network and NFL+.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NFL Draft is scheduled for April 23-25 in Pittsburgh, marking the city&#8217;s first time hosting the event since the 1948 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TECH\u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The NFL announced its official invite list on Wednesday for the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine, which included&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-161212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161212","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=161212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}