{"id":740561,"date":"2026-07-03T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:58:08","slug":"four-star-db-greedy-james-flips-from-texas-to-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740561\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star DB Greedy James flips from Texas to LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As the Texas Longhorns have surged on the recruiting trail during the summer official visit season, the 2027 class has filled up with defensive backs, but that trend reversed on Thursday when Manvel defensive back Greedy James flipped to the LSU Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201dTheir pitch is that I can be a great cover guy, especially as a corner, and get developed by somebody like Corey Raymond with a platform like no other,\u201d James <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/lsu\/article\/lsu-tigers-football-recruiting-lane-kiffin-lands-commitment-from-top-safety-greedy-james-flips-from-texas-longhorns-287986020\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> 247Sports. \u201cIt\u2019s been great, and with my ties to Louisiana, it\u2019s big. They\u2019ve really picked it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 6\u20190, 175-pounder originally committed to Texas early last December as the third member of the 2027 recruiting class after earning an offer from the Horns at a June summer camp. But holding on to early pledges is difficult, and head coach Steve Sarkisian and his staff encouraged James to continue considering his options, a group of schools that ultimately included LSU and Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With the Tigers landing the pledge from James, the Longhorns lose a commitment from a consensus f0ur-star prospect ranked as the No. 282 player nationally and the No. 24 safety, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Texas is now back to 21 pledges in the current cycle in a class that ranks No. 6 nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Texas Longhorns have surged on the recruiting trail during the summer official visit season, the 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,41661,85234],"class_list":["post-740561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-texas-longhorns-football","tag-texas-longhorns-football-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740561","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=740561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}