{"id":280077,"date":"2026-05-05T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:40:07","slug":"four-star-texas-te-target-brock-williams-sets-commitment-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280077\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star Texas TE target Brock Williams sets commitment date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If there\u2019s been one knock on the recruiting ability of Texas Longhorns tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Jeff Banks over his five years in Austin, it\u2019s been his inability to consistently land elite tight ends, an area Banks hopes to address when Libertyville (Ill.) standout Brock Williams makes his decision on May 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the last seven months, Williams has turned his focus to his three finalists \u2014 Georgia, Ohio State, and Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Each of those three schools have been able get the 6\u20195, 210-pounder on campus multiple times, including the Longhorns for an unofficial visit in late March that seemed to push Texas towards the top of Williams\u2019 recruitment. In recent years, beating out the Bullogs for top tight ends has been a challenge for the Longhorns as Georgia tight ends have found success on the field, but the recent track record for Texas with NFL Draft picks at the position in each of the last three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Williams holds close to 40 total offers, including Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas A&amp;M, and USC, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Over the last two seasons at Libertyville, Williams recorded 79 catches for 1,204 yards and 18 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A consensus four-star prospect, Williams is ranked as the No. 79 player nationally and the No. 4 tight in the 247Sports Composite rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there\u2019s been one knock on the recruiting ability of Texas Longhorns tight ends coach and special teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,10017,28],"class_list":["post-280077","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\/280077","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=280077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}