{"id":282181,"date":"2026-05-07T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:12:08","slug":"texas-expected-to-hire-longtime-nfl-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282181\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas expected to hire longtime NFL scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">As many college football programs move to an NFL-style model in their personnel departments, the Texas Longhorns are expected to hire longtime NFL scout Chris Watts, according to a Wednesday report from Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Langston University product, Watts got his start in the NFL as a scouting intern for the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/ny-giants\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Giants&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> in 2005 before spending 15 years as a full-time scout for the organization. After working for the Giants, Watts became a regional scout for the Reese\u2019s Senior Bowl in 2021, taking a role as a general manager in the USSFL after only six months on the Senior Bowl staff to return to scouting in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2022, a job he held until March.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now head coach Steve Sarkisian and general manager Brandon Harris will have a scout with NFL experience in the personnel department to help evaluate high school and transfer portal prospects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As many college football programs move to an NFL-style model in their personnel departments, the Texas Longhorns are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104003,104002,104005,104004,97381,16314,80,104008,104007,104006,10245,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-282181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brett-davis-imagn","tag-chris-watts","tag-langston-university","tag-matt-zenitz","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-personnel-department","tag-personnel-departments","tag-scout","tag-steelers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282181","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=282181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}