{"id":404304,"date":"2026-08-12T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404304\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:02:07","slug":"three-texas-standouts-selected-for-lombardi-award-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404304\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Texas standouts selected for Lombardi Award watch list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Three Texas football players landed on this season\u2019s Lombardi Award watch list, including edge rusher Colin Simmons, offensive lineman Trevor Goosby, and linebacker Rasheem Biles, according to the award committee\u2019s announcement earlier this week. Named in honor of the legendary professional football coach Vince Lombardi, since 1970, the Lombardi Award is given each year to an outstanding offensive or defensive lineman that carries out values such as leadership, courage, performance, and discipline both on and off the football gridiron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Simmons will be a junior in 2026; Goosby, a redshirt junior; and Biles, who transferred to Texas earlier this offseason after playing three seasons for Pittsburgh, will be a senior this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Texas offensive lineman Kelvin Banks most recently won the Lombardi Award in 2024, becoming the fourth Longhorn to take home the award that year (Banks was Texas\u2019 first offensive lineman to receive the honor.) Before him, former defensive lineman Brian Orakpo was awarded the honor in 2008. Former Texas defensive tackles Tony Degrate and Kenneth Sims won the Lombardi Trophy in 1984 and 1981, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Texas football players landed on this season\u2019s Lombardi Award watch list, including edge rusher Colin Simmons, offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29431,27,29,49719,536,10017,50605,110251,10018,28],"class_list":["post-404304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-nfl-horns","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-discussion","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-recruiting","tag-texas-longhorns-history","tag-texas-longhorns-news","tag-texas-longhorns-recruiting","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404304","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=404304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}