{"id":450817,"date":"2026-09-29T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450817\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:20:14","slug":"lb-austin-romaine-recognized-as-big-12-defensive-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450817\/","title":{"rendered":"LB Austin Romaine recognized as Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech linebacker Austin Romaine has become the second Red Raider this year to be awarded \u201cBig 12 Defensive Player of the Week\u201d. This comes after he started off the second quarter of Saturday\u2019s 49-14 win over Sam Houston State with two interceptions returned for touchdowns on two consecutive plays from scrimmage, making him the first NCAA player to do so since 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Romaine, who came to Tech as a transfer from Kansas State, also led the Red Raiders with eight tackles in Saturday\u2019s game, and helped limit the Bearkats to 14 points and 195 passing yards. Prior to Saturday\u2019s matchup, Sam Houston\u2019s passing game was ranked seventh in the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Romaine and the No. 12 Red Raiders return to action at 6:30 p.m. CT Saturday evening in Boulder, Colo where they will face the 2-2 Colorado Buffaloes. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech linebacker Austin Romaine has become the second Red Raider this year to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,315,2880,17311,155076,21830,1769,415,873],"class_list":["post-450817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-big-12","tag-big-12-football","tag-big-12-honors","tag-defensive-play","tag-linebacker","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450817","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=450817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}