{"id":325797,"date":"2026-06-06T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/325797\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:10:07","slug":"lamar-standout-linebacker-braylon-williams-commits-to-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/325797\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamar standout linebacker Braylon Williams commits to SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arlington<\/p>\n

Arlington Lamar athlete Braylon Williams, left, celebrates a first-quarter touchdown run against Arlington Martin in a UIL football Class 6A game at Choctaw Stadium in Arlington on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

Cody Thorn<\/p>\n

Special to the Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Arlington Lamar standout three-star class of 2027 linebacker Braylon Williams announced his commitment to SMU Saturday.<\/p>\n

He has offers from a flurry of Division I programs, including Baylor, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Miami, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and more. He has a 6-foot-2, 220 pound frame.<\/p>\n

As a junior, Williams recorded 101 tackles, 13 tackles for a loss and five sacks, earning First Team All-Area honors.<\/a> He also had an interception and a fumble recovery.<\/p>\n

Williams spent time on both sides of the ball, rushing for two touchdowns on the season.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll lead a new era at Lamar High School, with former head coach Billy Skinner departing<\/a> to become Grapevine-Colleyville ISD\u2019s athletic director. Defensive coordinator Zach Najarro was promoted to head football coach.<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2025, Lamar made the playoffs for the first time since 2019, and in 2026, the Vikings are set to return a solid group of experienced and productive athletes.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Charles Baggarly<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Charles Baggarly is a high school sports editor and reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He graduated from TCU in 2023 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism and served as TCU 360\u2019s sports editor. Connect with Charles on Twitter or via email.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington Lamar athlete Braylon Williams, left, celebrates a first-quarter touchdown run against Arlington Martin in a UIL football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-325797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325797","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=325797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}