{"id":657886,"date":"2026-05-22T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657886\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:48:10","slug":"inside-texas-football-recruiting-defensive-big-board-analysis-for-the-2026-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657886\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Texas Football Recruiting: Defensive Big Board Analysis for the 2026 Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we discussed numbers and approach on the offensive side. That picture looks much clearer than the current mosaic on the defensive side of the ball. That\u2019s not to praise the offense or knock the defense; it\u2019s just the way it is right now. To the defensive coaches\u2019 credit, their big boards by position are good to very good, other than perhaps safety. Even there, it\u2019s more likely that I\u2019m missing a key detail or two rather than Blake Gideon is struggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, we discussed numbers and approach on the offensive side. That picture looks much clearer than the current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,12921,99],"class_list":["post-657886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-plus","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657886","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=657886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}