{"id":450731,"date":"2026-09-29T03:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T03:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:32:08","slug":"texas-offers-tennessee-juco-dt-commit-christian-mays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450731\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas offers Tennessee JUCO DT commit Christian Mays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s battle between the Texas Longhorns and the Tennessee Volunteers is playing out again on the recruiting trail as the Longhorns extended a Monday offer to Northeast Mississippi CC defensive tackle Christian Mays, who committed to the Vols back in June.<\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8217;5, 340-pounder pledged to Josh Heupel&#8217;s program after taking official visits to Tennessee and Arkansas in a relatively early start to the junior college recruitment of Mays, who is from Lakewood, Colo.. It&#8217;s a recruitment that clearly isn&#8217;t over, as Georgia offered Mays two weeks ago and Colorado joined Texas in offering on Monday. Mays also holds offers from Auburn and Mississippi State, among others.<\/p>\n<p>A consensus three-star prospect, Mays is ranked as the No. 2 player and No. 1 defensive tackle in the JUCO ranks, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:View Link;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;View Link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hudl.com\/video\/3\/17270497\/6aa49430352ece43b5886a3b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">View Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s battle between the Texas Longhorns and the Tennessee Volunteers is playing out again on the recruiting trail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[155060,46143,790,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-450731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-christian-mays","tag-defensive-tackle","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450731","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=450731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}