{"id":344664,"date":"2026-06-21T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344664\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:39:35","slug":"tcu-lands-a-commitment-from-touted-ot-alexander-herrera-it-was-a-no-brainer-for-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344664\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU lands a commitment from touted OT Alexander Herrera: &#8216;It was a no-brainer for me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TCU\u2019s kicking off Week 1 of official visits with some fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>Touted OT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/alexander-herrera-243608\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Herrera<\/a> from nearby Fort Worth (Texas) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/high-school\/crowley-crowley-tx-2107\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crowley<\/a> declared for the Horned Frogs on Friday during the first day of his official visit.<\/p>\n<p>TCU edged past SMU and others for the in-state prospect, who has made more than a dozen visits to Funky Town over the last year and change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a no-brainer for me,\u201d Herrera told Rivals. \u201cI was just waiting for the right time to do it, and I felt like God was telling me today\u2019s the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Frogs have been setting the pace in the three-star prospect\u2019s recruitment for months.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera is the No. 79 OT in the country and the No. 103 overall prospect inside the Lone Strar State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey still remain No. 1 for me,\u201d Herrera has said. \u201cWhat stood out the most this time was being able to talk to the former TCU players who are now in the NFL. I was able to learn a lot about academics and the football program. What\u2019s catching my eye the most about being a Horned Frog is the relationships; I feel like everyone would have my back and always be there for me. Every time I\u2019m there, I\u2019m treated like family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like this story0Share article<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleLikeBar_meta__MY_jU\">Members only \u00b7 one like per member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU\u2019s kicking off Week 1 of official visits with some fireworks. Touted OT Alexander Herrera from nearby Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[113623,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-344664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-alexander-herrera-27-crowley","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344664","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=344664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}