{"id":265205,"date":"2026-04-25T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265205\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:23:09","slug":"texas-lb-anthony-hill-jr-selected-by-titans-in-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265205\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas LB Anthony HIll Jr. selected by Titans in the NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas<\/a>\u00a0linebacker and former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/denton-ryan\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Denton Ryan<\/a> standout Anthony Hill Jr. is headed to the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Titans selected Hill with the 60th pick in the second round of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/nfl-draft\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">NFL draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time second-team All-American flourished in his three years in Texas, becoming an integral part of the Longhorns\u2019 defense amid a program resurgence that saw two CFP berths and three consecutive 10+ win seasons while he was in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>In 40 games for Texas, Hill tallied 249 total tackles, including 31.5 tackles for loss and 17 sacks. He also demonstrated a penchant for creating turnovers with three interceptions and eight forced fumbles for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old of Wichita, Kan. was among the top linebacker prospects ahead of the draft and was the 6th\u00a0taken. Prior to that, he was The Dallas Morning News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2022\/sportsdays-top-recruits-for-2023\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top-ranked Dallas-area recruit<\/a> from the Class of 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u00a0linebacker and former Denton Ryan standout Anthony Hill Jr. is headed to the NFL. The Tennessee Titans selected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,27,29,28,89124],"class_list":["post-265205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brief","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-nfl-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265205","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=265205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}