{"id":416993,"date":"2026-08-26T07:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416993\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:06:19","slug":"texas-tech-football-five-star-austin-attalah-commits-to-red-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416993\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech football: Five-star Austin Attalah commits to Red Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 25, 2026, 2:59 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A staple of Texas Tech&#8217;s recruiting plan has been to build elite talent along both sides of the line of scrimmage. The 2026 class was the first high school recruiting class with five-star caliber players signed along the offensive line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Texas Tech fans know that when head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeyMcGuireTTU\/status\/2092300173200240691?s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Joey McGuire fires out a Rick Flair GIF<\/a> on X, a commitment is not far behind. Five-star offensive tackle Austin Attalah&#8217;s official announcement came live on the Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to the 247Sports composite rankings, Attalah ranks as a\u00a0five-star recruit, the No. 27 overall prospect in the country, and the No. 3 offensive tackle in the nation. Attalah is the second commit of\u00a0the <a data-autotag=\"fa977b59-c816-4ed7-8fda-7b214f58d6b0\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/3491\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Red Raiders<\/a>&#8216; 2028 class as he joins three-star kicker\u00a0Luc Normand, the No. 1 kicker in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/redraiderswire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/college\/red-raiders\/football\/2026\/08\/01\/texas-tech-football-hunter-zambrano-photo-gallery\/91128723007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Best photos of Texas Tech offensive lineman Hunter Zambrano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/85626566007-texas-tech-fb-practice-9-081225-ng-14.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to 247Sports national scouting analyst Gabe Brooks, Attalah &#8220;Projects as a high-major tackle who could become a pro prospect.&#8221; These early commits can help set the table for another top-10 nationally ranked class for the Red Raiders.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/91084482007-20251025-t-215007-z-922628054-mt-1-usatoday-27418941-rtrmadp-3-ncaafootballoklahomastate.webp\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RedRaidersWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RedRaidersWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/redraiderswire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Texas Tech news, notes, and opinions.\u00a0You can also follow Andrew on X<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cfp4_us\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cfp4_us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:7|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 25, 2026, 2:59 p.m. CT A staple of Texas Tech&#8217;s recruiting plan has been to build elite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[33,132,134,133,105162,137627,35,44,45,218,30017,6182,184,46,10001,1996,3159,9025,36],"class_list":["post-416993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-accessfree","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-sourcered-raiders-wire","tag-sstssportscollegered-raidersfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tagfootball-recruiting","tag-tagncaa-big-12-conference","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtexas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tagtexas-tech-red-raiders-football","tag-tagtexas-tech-university","tag-tagtwitter","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416993","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=416993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}