{"id":346653,"date":"2026-06-23T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:34:10","slug":"ucla-continues-to-pile-up-commitments-from-the-dallas-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346653\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA continues to pile up commitments from the Dallas area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a big reason why UCLA\u2019s recruiting class is ranked No. 16 in the nation for the Class of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because of the work the Bruins have done recruiting the Dallas area.<\/p>\n<p>Ray (6-6, 300) is rated the 88th-best offensive tackle in the nation. He had offers from Kansas State, Houston, Baylor and USC, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2-ranked recruit in UCLA\u2019s 22-player recruiting class is <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\">North Crowley four-star\u00a0cornerback Jerry Outhouse Jr.<\/a> The other two Dallas-area players committed to UCLA are Trophy Club Byron Nelson four-star defensive lineman George Toia and Richland four-star running back Jayshon Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>Outhouse is rated the 12th-best cornerback in the nation, and Toia is ranked the 15th-best defensive lineman in the country. Gibson, rated the nation\u2019s 33rd-best running back, ran for 2,263 yards and 41 touchdowns for a 9-4 regional semifinalist team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a big reason why UCLA\u2019s recruiting class is ranked No. 16 in the nation for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-346653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346653","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=346653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}