{"id":340295,"date":"2026-06-17T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340295\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:35:11","slug":"south-oak-cliff-ot-brian-swanson-commits-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340295\/","title":{"rendered":"South Oak Cliff OT Brian Swanson commits to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Oak Cliff offensive tackle Brian Swanson committed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swanson is rated a four-star recruit by 247Sports and is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/2026\/02\/09\/meet-the-50-best-dallas-area-high-school-football-players-in-the-class-of-2027\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">13th-ranked prospect in the D-FW<\/a> area for the Class of 2027. According to 247, he\u2019s the 18th-best offensive line prospect in the nation and held offers from Oklahoma, SMU and Alabama before committing to Texas.\u00a0He took an official visit to Austin this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson started at multiple positions along the SOC offensive line as a junior and anchored an offense that helped guide the program to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/12\/20\/death-row-defense-delivers-south-oak-cliff-a-third-state-title\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">its third state championship<\/a> and fifth consecutive title game appearance. The 6-5, 315-pound Texas pledge also competes in track and field for SOC where he was a regional qualifier as a sophomore in the shot-put.<\/p>\n<p>According to 247Sports, Swanson is the highest-rated offensive line pledge Texas has received since Brandon Baker in 2024 out of Mater Dei in California. He&#8217;s currently the third offensive line prospect committed to Texas for its 2027 class.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Oak Cliff offensive tackle Brian Swanson committed to\u00a0Texas on Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 Swanson is rated a four-star recruit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-340295","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\/340295","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=340295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}