{"id":400581,"date":"2026-08-07T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400581\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:16:12","slug":"cole-hutson-returns-to-longhorns-as-a-5th-year-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400581\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Hutson returns to Longhorns as a 5th-year player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas offensive lineman Cole Hutson has returned to the team in training camp after gaining a fifth year of eligibility, the school announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Hutson sued the NCAA last month in Texas for an extra year of college eligibility after the NCAA announced a new plan for athletes to have five years once they enter college. A federal judge recently ruled in favor of players like Hutson to grant them another year.<\/p>\n<p>Hutson played in 48 games with 23 starts at three different positions in his career. He was undrafted after last season and did not earn a pro contract after participating in mini camps with the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas offensive lineman Cole Hutson has returned to the team in training camp after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[555,2160,557,132,134,133,5604,261,223,154,27,2053],"class_list":["post-400581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-college-football","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400581","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=400581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}