{"id":267178,"date":"2026-04-26T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:51:09","slug":"qb-behren-morton-selected-in-seventh-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267178\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Behren Morton selected in seventh round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PITTSBURGH, Penn. (KCBD) &#8211; After leading the Texas Tech for four seasons, including last year\u2019s historical run, and becoming one of the winningest quarterbacks in program history, Behren Morton will officially begin his NFL career with the New England Patriots, who selected him during the seventh round Saturday as the 234th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During his four years with the program, Morton had 8,898 passing yards, 71 touchdowns, He also led the Red Raiders to 26 victories, including last December\u2019s 34-7 rout of BYU- giving the school its first-ever Big 12 title in school history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stay tuned to <a href=\"https:\/\/KCBD.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/KCBD.com\" target=\"_blank\">KCBD.com<\/a> for updates throughout the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH, Penn. (KCBD) &#8211; After leading the Texas Tech for four seasons, including last year\u2019s historical run, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21872,168,170,169,80,6183,9370,1769,874,415,58950],"class_list":{"0":"post-267178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft","14":"tag-quarterback","15":"tag-texas-tech","16":"tag-texas-tech-football","17":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","18":"tag-texas-tech-univeristy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267178","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=267178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}