{"id":265266,"date":"2026-04-25T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:11:10","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-select-texas-techs-romello-height-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265266\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers select Texas Tech&#8217;s Romello Height in NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas Tech<\/a>\u00a0had one of the nation\u2019s top collegiate defenses in 2025. On Friday, another one of its playmakers was drafted.<\/p>\n<p>Edge rusher Romello Height was selected by the San Francisco 49ers\u00a0with the 70th overall pick in the 2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/nfl-draft\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"> NFL draft<\/a>. Height was the second Texas Tech pass rusher to be drafted this year after the New York Jets took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/article\/david-bailey-nfl-draft-new-york-jets-texas-tech-22218601.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">David Bailey No. 2 overall<\/a> in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Height was a pivotal part of the Red Raiders\u2019 success last season as he finished the campaign with 38 total tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss and 10 sacks. He played just one season in Lubbock after separate stints at Georgia Tech, USC and Auburn. He was part of Tech\u2019s record-setting transfer class that led the program to a Big 12 championship.<\/p>\n<p>Height (6-3, 240 pounds) was a First Team All-Big 12 selection in 2025. After his time at Tech ended, he competed with some of the draft\u2019s top prospects at the Senior Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech\u00a0had one of the nation\u2019s top collegiate defenses in 2025. On Friday, another one of its playmakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,27,29,28,89124],"class_list":["post-265266","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\/265266","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=265266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}