{"id":256926,"date":"2026-04-19T14:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:41:23","slug":"four-star-edge-derwin-fields-commits-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256926\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star EDGE Derwin Fields commits to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Texas Longhorns made a significant addition to the 2027 recruiting class on Saturday with the commitment of Brookhaven (Miss.) edge Derwin Fields during a visit to the Forty Acres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6\u20192.5, 230-pounder chose Texas over Ole Miss, where he had an official visit scheduled for the end of May. Among the 21 total offers for Fields are Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&amp;M, USC, and UCLA, among others. A consensus four-star prospect, Fields is ranked as the No. 196 player overall and the No. 20 edge, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Over the last two seasons at Brookhaven, Fields has recorded 117 tackles, 47 tackles for loss, 27 sacks, and three forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fields is the ninth pledge in the 2027 recruiting class for the Longhorns that now ranks No. 14 nationally. Texas now holds two commitments from edge prospect in 2027 with Fields joining Mansfield Summit standout Cameron Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Longhorns made a significant addition to the 2027 recruiting class on Saturday with the commitment of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,10017,28],"class_list":["post-256926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-recruiting","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256926","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=256926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}