Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire and his staff hit big again on the recruiting trail Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Following a visit to Lubbock over the weekend, Rivals No. 5 ranked 2027 receiver Benny Easter Jr.<\/a> announced his pledge to the Red Raiders program. He adds to a class already ranked No. 1 nationally.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cJust the way they go about winning fits me perfectly,\u201d Easter said. \u201cAnd the passing offense.\u201d<\/p>\n As Texas Tech pushes towards a Big 12 Championship and spot in the College Football Playoff, the Red Raiders boast the nation\u2019s No. 8 offensive and No. 4 scoring offense. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Easter sees himself flourishing on Saturday\u2019s playing for this coaching staff.<\/p>\n \u201cThey wanna win,\u201d Easter reiterated. \u201cJust shows me what type of a winning program it will be when I get there.\u201d<\/p>\n The Humble (Texas) Summer Creek standout chose Texas Tech over offers from Houston and Kansas among others. Rivals ranks him as the nation\u2019s No. 39 prospect regardless of position.<\/p>\n General Manager James Blanchard was the lead recruiter in courting Easter to the Red Raiders.<\/p>\n \u201cThe amount of love they showed so early,\u201d Easter added.<\/p>\n Over the last two seasons Easter has turned 121 receptions into 1,981 yards and 26 touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire and his staff hit big again on the recruiting trail Thursday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[158202,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-304823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-benny-easter-jr-27-summer-creek","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}