{"id":712277,"date":"2026-06-18T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712277\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:47:09","slug":"texas-longhorns-projected-to-land-countrys-no-2-overall-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712277\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns projected to land country’s No. 2 overall prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a slow start to its 2027 recruiting class, Texas<\/a> has caught a wave of momentum over the past six weeks. <\/p>\n

The Longhorns only hold 15 commitments, but are likely looking at a smaller class after signing 25 high school prospects and 23 transfers last year. That has led them to focus their efforts on finding quality fits over sheer numbers. <\/p>\n

Ten of their 15 pledges rank as blue-chippers, headlined by five-star wide receiver Easton Royal<\/a>. He is the lone five-star this cycle for Steve Sarkisian and Co., but that might not be the case for long.<\/p>\n

All eyes around Austin will be on Five-Star Plus+ cornerback John Meredith III<\/a> on Friday, as he is set to announce between the Longhorns, Texas A&M<\/a> and Alabama<\/a>, The country\u2019s No. 2 overall prospect, Meredith has been at the top of the board for Texas going back months.<\/p>\n

The rival Aggies were considered to be his leader for much of the early spring, but back-to-back visits to Austin put Texas right in the mix. Heading into his decision, the Rivals Recruiting Prediction Machine (RPM)<\/a> favors the Longhorns after new expert picks from national analyst Adam Gorney and InsideTexas.com\u2019s Justin Wells. Those follow earlier projections from Rivals\u2019 Sam Spiegelman and Steve Wiltfong.<\/p>\n

Longhorns looking to cap big run of commitments<\/p>\n

In his latest intel, Spiegelman reiterated Texas\u2019 top standing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a fluid two-team battle with the Aggies for months, but momentum has favored the Longhorns since April after consecutive visits to Austin,\u201d he said on Thursday<\/a>. \u201cI still love my prediction for Texas to win out for the five-star. The Horns are on a heater, and there are no signs of slowing down anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should Texas win out, Meredith would be the fifth commitment already this month for the Longhorns. Each of the previous four are blue-chip prospects: wide receiver Briceson Thrower<\/a>, offensive tackle Brian Swanson<\/a>, edge rusher JaBarrius Garror<\/a>, and defensive lineman Kasi Currie<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Longhorns\u2019 class currently sits just outside the top 10 of the Rivals Industry Team Recruiting Rankings<\/a>, but would just jump all the way up to No. 7 with Meredith in the fold. As of now, all signs point to that being the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a slow start to its 2027 recruiting class, Texas has caught a wave of momentum over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-712277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712277","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=712277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}