{"id":450919,"date":"2026-09-29T07:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450919\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:56:18","slug":"texas-offers-tennessee-juco-dt-commit-christian-mays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450919\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas offers Tennessee JUCO DT commit Christian Mays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Saturday\u2019s 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 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 6\u20195, 340-pounder pledged to Josh Heupel\u2019s 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\u2019s a recruitment that clearly isn\u2019t 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 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s 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":450920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,10017,28],"class_list":["post-450919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-recruiting","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450919","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=450919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}