{"id":463417,"date":"2026-10-12T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463417\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:28:09","slug":"texas-loses-commitment-from-five-star-wr-after-red-river-rivalry-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463417\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas loses commitment from five-star WR after Red River Rivalry loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Longhorns<\/a> had a rough weekend, taking hits on both the field and the recruiting trail.<\/p>\n<p>Royal, a five-star prospect from Brother Martin High School in New Orleans, flipped to the\u00a0Florida Gators after having a commitment to Texas since November 2025.\u00a0He was also highly sought after by LSU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The senior stands at just 5-foot-1, 200 pounds, but his speed is elite among high school prospects. He set a Louisiana state track record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/50159015\/easton-royal-top-wr-27-flips-florida-texas\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a 10.17-second 100-meter dash<\/a>, which\u00a0would already make him one of the fastest players in college football.<\/p>\n<p>With just under two months before the early signing period begins, Texas still has a <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/season\/2027-football\/teamrankings\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top 10 2027 recruiting class<\/a>, but they trail Oklahoma and in-state rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a>, who has the No. 1 class in the country. Offensive tackle Ismael Camara, the top overall prospect in Texas, is the Longhorns&#8217; other five-star commitment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Texas Longhorns had a rough weekend, taking hits on both the field and the recruiting trail. Royal, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,88146],"class_list":["post-463417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463417","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=463417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}