{"id":343533,"date":"2026-06-20T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343533\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:21:09","slug":"texas-football-secures-commitment-of-no-2-ranked-recruit-in-2027-class-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343533\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas football secures commitment of No. 2-ranked recruit in 2027 class \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Longhorns got their new headliner for the 2027 recruiting class on Friday with the commitment of five-star cornerback John Meredith III. The No. 2 player in his class, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/football\/recruiting\/rankings\/scnext300boys\/_\/class\/2027\/view\/rn300\/sort\/rank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/john-meredith-iii-46150593\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">247Sports Composite<\/a>, made the announcement live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6S9gQJjczII\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat McAfee Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith narrowed his decision down to the Longhorns, Texas A&amp;M Aggies and Alabama Crimson Tide after receiving 42 total offers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best stay in Texas,\u201d Meredith, originally from Fort Worth, said to McAfee soon after announcing his commitment. \u201cI knew I was going to go to a Texas school. \u2026 A lot of people assumed I was gonna go somewhere, but I think I\u2019m just different. I want to go to the University of Texas. I feel like I\u2019d be best fitted there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meredith took his official visit to Austin in early June, a week after traveling to College Station to visit Texas A&amp;M. His decision marks a significant recruiting success for Texas cornerbacks coach Mark Orphey, who also served as the primary recruiter for highly-touted commits Jermaine Bishop, Samari Matthews and Hayward Howard Jr. in last year\u2019s cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meredith\u2019s addition to the 2027 class elevated Texas to No. 8 in the 247Sports Composite team <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/season\/2027-football\/compositeteamrankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rankings<\/a>, positioning the Longhorns for a sixth-straight top-10 recruiting cycle under head coach Steve Sarkisian. Meredith is the 16th overall commit and second five-star commit of the class, alongside wide receiver Easton Royal, who committed to the program in November 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a June 12 article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/article\/north-crowley-5-star-cornerback-john-meredith-iii-22303410.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Dallas Morning News<\/a>, Meredith\u2019s eligibility for his high school senior season at North Crowley High School is up in the air after he was ruled ineligible for transferring from Euless Trinity High School for \u201cathletic purposes.\u201d That uncertainty does not seem to have affected his collegiate recruitment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is set to be one of the Longhorns\u2019 top in-state gets of the Sarkisian era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Longhorns got their new headliner for the 2027 recruiting class on Friday with the commitment of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-343533","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\/343533","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=343533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}