{"id":78510,"date":"2025-12-06T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78510\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:30:22","slug":"two-franklin-offensive-lineman-sign-with-d1-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78510\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Franklin offensive lineman sign with D1 schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 Franklin offensive lineman Justin Morales and Eric Sandoval both signed with Division I schools on Wednesday during the early signing period. <\/p>\n<p>The pair led a Franklin offense that rushed for over 400 yards per game this past season. <\/p>\n<p>Morales, a 4-star, signed with Arizona. The senior recently flipped, after previously being committed to Kansas State. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I took a visit to UofA, I saw the team and the people,&#8221; Morales said. &#8220;I vibed with everybody and that is why I flipped. It is closer to home and I feel more of a family connection there.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sandoval is staying home in El Paso and signing with UTEP. He joins a revamped offensive line unit for the Miners as they make the jump to the Mountain West Conference. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My whole family is born and raised in El Paso,&#8221; Sandoval said. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited to help build a better team and better myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franklin is expected to have more signings in the spring window. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS4) \u2014 Franklin offensive lineman Justin Morales and Eric Sandoval both signed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-78510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78510","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=78510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}