{"id":3530,"date":"2025-10-14T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3530\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:30:11","slug":"texas-k-will-stone-leaves-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3530\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas K Will Stone leaves program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stone will have one year of eligibility remaining after he enters the NCAA transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">An Austin Regents School product, Stone was ranked as the No. 3 kicker in the 2022 recruiting class, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, choosing Texas over an offer from Michigan State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Recruited to replace Cameron Dicker, Stone was not able to beat out walk-on Bert Auburn for the kicking job in 2022, instead settling into a role as the kickoff specialist. When Auburn struggled last season, Stone took over place-kicking duties in the College Football Playoff semifinal against Ohio State, hitting two extra points, but did not attempt a field goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That remains the case for Stone\u2019s career with the Longhorns after Texas brought in Texas State transfer Mason Shipley during the offseason, precipitating Auburn\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stone remained the kickoff specialist despite missing the UTEP and Sam Houston games with an undisclosed injury, recording eight touchbacks on 20 kickoffs this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When Stone was out, Shipley handled the kickoff duties with a touchback rate of 20 percent and one that went out of bounds against the Bearkats, so the Horns are likely to see some drop off in that phase following Stone\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stone will have one year of eligibility remaining after he enters the NCAA transfer portal. An Austin Regents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-3530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-longhorns-football","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}