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<\/a><\/p>\nSep 20, 2025; Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Tulane Green Wave offensive linemen Shadre Hurst (56) blocks during the first quarter against the Mississippi Rebels at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-Imagn Images Petre Thomas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
The feeling is mutual. Fritz acknowledged the wide array of suitors for Hurst this offseason, but the strength of the connection previously established at Tulane ultimately prevailed on the transfer\u2019s decision day.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came here for a lot less,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cHe\u2019s a loyal guy. He\u2019s a great player. He\u2019s a great person. We\u2019re very, very excited about having him here. He\u2019s a tough, hard-nosed guy. He\u2019s smart. He loves to practice, he loves football, and he\u2019s an excellent student.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hurst was one of the most coveted linemen in the 2026 transfer cycle, entering with a distinguished r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of two First Team All-American Conference selections, while serving as an integral component of a Tulane squad that qualified for four-straight conference championship games.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou feel pretty confident when a guy like Shadre is next to you,\u201d Houston right tackle Drew Terrill said. \u201cHe\u2019s really strong on the field. He has some of the best lifting numbers I\u2019ve ever seen in the weight room. He squats like 700, benches 500. He\u2019s a monster, so you feel real comfortable out there. You feel like you have another guy that\u2019s gonna fight every play with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
But before racking up all the accolades and championships, Hurst was treated to a frontseat view of the greatest statistical turnaround in college football history. When he arrived at Tulane in 2022, he committed to a program coming off the heels of a discouraging 2-10 season. Although Hurst played sparingly as a true freshman, he witnessed the Green Wave completely rewrite their narrative to a tune of a 12-2 record, embellished with an American Conference title, a thrilling Cotton Bowl victory over USC, and a No. 9 finish.<\/p>\n
Over three years later, that magical season still resonates deep within Hurst.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first season there with him in 2022 going to the Cotton Bowl, winning the conference championship \u2014 seeing how he coached and led players and had everything organized and how we laid it out for us to be successful,\u201d Hurst said. \u201cThat\u2019s what made me like, \u2018I want that again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Hurst not only arrives to Houston with a Cotton Bowl victory and an AP Top 10 finish under his belt. Several months ago, his Green Wave crashed the national stage of the College Football Playoff \u2014 becoming the second team in American Conference history to do so.<\/p>\n
Now his Cougars, fresh off a 10-3 campaign and a No. 22 year-end ranking, are eyeing that incremental jump to the CFP. The fifth-year senior only has one more canvas available, and Hurst hopes to leverage his past New Year\u2019s Six and CFP experiences to paint his final masterpiece in Houston.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing at that level and having that experience helps me bring that here and instill it into other players here,\u201d Hurst said. \u201cWe can go chase that same level of competition and championships.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A canvas and assortment of paintbrushes inhabit Shadre Hurst\u2019s residence. It\u2019s a hobby the offensive guard enjoys when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6746,56,58,57,7879,19324],"class_list":{"0":"post-254450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-american-conference","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-legacy-aac","13":"tag-tulane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254450","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=254450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}