{"id":266749,"date":"2026-04-26T06:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:31:23","slug":"patriots-select-texas-tech-qb-behren-morton-in-seventh-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266749\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots select Texas Tech QB Behren Morton in seventh round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots had only Tommy DeVito behind starter Drake Maye until Saturday. That\u2019s when they used a seventh-round pick on Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton, making him the 234th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Morton is the ninth quarterback selected in the 2026 draft, although LSU\u2019s Garrett Nussmeier isn\u2019t one of those.<\/p>\n<p>Morton finished last season with 2,780 yards passing with 22 touchdowns and six interceptions in 12 games. He missed two games with a hairline fracture in his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>Morton spent five seasons in Lubbock, starting 3 1\/2 of those seasons. He started 36 games, going 26-10 and completing 62.8 percent of his passes for 8,989 yards with 71 touchdowns and 28 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Patriots had only Tommy DeVito behind starter Drake Maye until Saturday. That\u2019s when they used a seventh-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-266749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266749","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=266749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}