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T.J. Storment, an Associated Press second-team All-Big 12 honoree last season at TCU, has helped firm up Texas Tech's outlook at left tackle this spring. The Red Raiders wrap up spring practice Saturday with the annual spring game at Jones AT&T Stadium. There was a time during the winter when Texas Tech offensive line coach Steve Farmer had four offensive tackles who all spent far more time on the field than on the bench last season. There was Josh Burger, who started every game at right tackle, Caleb Rogers and Ethan Carde who, between them, started every game at left tackle and then incoming transfer T.J. Storment, who started TCU's last seven games at left tackle. That constituted either terrific depth or a logjam. This spring, Tech moved Burger to guard, gave Rogers and Carde opportunities to learn at a slower pace and got Storment acclimated to his new team.

Tech had high hopes for Storment, considering the 6-foot-7, 325-pound North Carolinian started every game two seasons ago for Colorado State and earned second-team All-Big 12 recognition last year for TCU. He made a good first impression and projects as the Red Raiders' left tackle. "He just brings such an adult perspective to everything," Farmer said. "He wants to be great. He wants to do this for a living. It's important to him. "He wants to know the details when we're in meetings. And Dawson's the same way. It's great for young guys to hear guys that have played - Josh Burger - still asking for the details with the scheme and those type of things. He's been a tremendous teammate and really has fit in great for us." - Lubbock Avalanche Journal

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OT T.J. Storment, Texas Tech
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04/16/21 - SaRodorick Thompson, rSr/2023, Texas Tech, 6-0, 207 (DS#27 RB) + More +

Depth at running back appeared to be a plus for Texas Tech coming out of the 2020 football season. The Red Raiders might get a chance to prove it earlier than they want in 2021. SaRodorick Thompson, the team's leading rusher each of the past two years, underwent surgery on his right shoulder last week and will be out through summer conditioning work, Tech coach Matt Wells said Tuesday. It's uncertain if Thompson will be ready for the Sept. 4 season opener against Houston at NRG Stadium. "Hell be back into practice in August," Wells told reporters on a Zoom video conference, "and then I'll be able to probably comment on his availability as we see him coming out of rehab late August, end of (preseason) practice. "Whether it's season opener, week two, week three, it's hard to say because that's the time frame toward the end of the recovery. Some guys recover quicker. We'll see how the thing heals and as he goes through the summer." Thompson ran for 765 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2019 and ran for 610 yards and eight touchdowns last season. The Red Raiders' running-back room also returns Xavier White, Tahj Brooks and Chadarius Townsend and will add state top-100 signee Cam'Ron Valdez from Rockdale this summer. - Lubbock Avalanche Journal

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RB SaRodorick Thompson, Texas Tech
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04/12/21 - Tyler Owens, rSr/2024, Texas Tech, 6-2, 216 (DS#16 SS) + More +

With senior linebacker Juwan Mitchell in the NCAA transfer portal, it appears the Texas Longhorns are addressing the need at linebacker with a position change, spinning junior safety Tyler Owens down towards the line of scrimmage. As Owens alludes to in his tweet, senior DeMarvion Overshown made a similar move last season that paid off for the Arp product with a productive season, including 60 tackles, eight tackles for loss, a sack, four quarterback hurries, and two interceptions. But with Overshown out for the spring due to shoulder surgery, there's an opportunity for someone like Owens to emerge. A high school track standout who ran a 10.3 100m at Plano East, Owens was a fast-rising product late in the 2019 recruiting class, eventually finishing the cycle as a Longhorns signee and a top-10 safety ranked just outside the top-100 nationally in the 247Sports Composite rankings. During the 2019 season, Owens appeared in 13 games, starting against TCU due to injuries, finishing the year with eight total tackles. - Burnt Orange Nation

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SS Tyler Owens, Texas Tech
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03/27/21 - Tony Bradford Jr., rSr/2024, Texas Tech, 6-0, 300 (DS#999 DT) + More +

Tony Bradford lining up alongside Jaylon Hutchings was a standard feature of the Texas Tech defensive line last season. Come the 2021 football season, they could become more of a tag team - as in, one comes in, one goes out, be it from one series to the next or within a series. Hutchings, the 6-foot, 300-pound junior from Forney, has started 20 games at nose tackle. Bradford, the 6-1, 290-pound junior from Galena Park North Shore, started eight games last season - it would've been all 10 if not for injury - at defensive tackle. But defensive coordinator Keith Patterson has both his short, stout cornerstones playing nose tackle through the first five sessions of spring practice and liking what he sees. "It's really strange," Patterson said Friday. "When you move somebody from over the tackle and move them down over the nose, it's amazing how much quicker and explosive they look. "If you put them out there in a four- or five-technique (against an offensive tackle), he just looks like a guy. You move him down into a zero (technique) nose, and all of a sudden he just looks athletic. He's explosive. He's coming off and he's pounding you in the face, pounding you in the face." - Lubbock Avalanche Journal

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DT Tony Bradford Jr., Texas Tech
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03/27/21 - Marquis Waters, rSr/2023, Texas Tech, 6-0, 209 (DS#39 SS) + More +

Tech signed no defensive back recruits over the winter, but has since added one walk-on and three transfers. Two of the transfers (Rayshad Williams and Malik Dunlap) are waiting for a waiver approval by the NCAA, but the Waters comes in with immediate eligibility after having already graduated. Waters spent four years at Duke - three as a primary starter at safety. During his time with the Blue Devils, the veteran gained plenty of experience on his way to filling up the stat sheet. His first game in the scarlet and black will be his 50th of his career as a collegiate athlete and his first snap will be his 2,870th. In the previous 49 games, he became a crucial part of the Blue Devils' plan to stop the run as he accumulated 234 tackles, 13 for loss, a sack and seven quarterback pressures. In addition, Waters contributed to the fifth-best pass defense in the ACC in 2020 by adding seven pass deflections, to give him 21 for his career. The safety also finished his time in Durham with three interceptions, a fumble recovery and a blocked field goal. - Dallas Morning News

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SS Marquis Waters, Texas Tech
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03/25/21 - Dalton Rigdon, Sr/2022, Texas Tech, 5-11, 170 (DS#999 WR) + More +

The buzz surrounding the potential of Dalton Rigdon became palpable after the 2019 season. As a sophomore, Rigdon was a true breakout performer, leading all inside receivers on the team with 34 catches, 486 yards, and five touchdowns. As a result, the player who reeled in just 29 yards in the year prior was awarded with a surprise scholarship by head coach Matt Wells. The numbers from 2019 could have been even higher, but the wideout suffered an injury against TCU that sidelined him for the remaining 2.5 games of the season. Rigdon came into the 2020 campaign with confidence but he once again struggled to stay healthy. This time, it was the ribs that gave the Perryton native problems. After starting at the slot receiver position for the season opener, Rigdon suffered the injury a few weeks later which caused him to miss all but one game in the month of October. When he returned, the speedy pass-catcher saw limited action in two games in November, pulling in three catches for 24 yards. In all, Rigdon started two games in 2020 after doing so ten times in 2019. - Dallas Morning News

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WR Dalton Rigdon, Texas Tech
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02/22/21 - Riko Jeffers, rSr/2022, Texas Tech, 6-1, 224 (DS#45 ILB) + More +

In December, Riko Jeffers announced his decision to return to Lubbock for one more season. Last year, five of Texas Tech's top eight tacklers belonged to the linebacking unit. After Jeffers' decision, all five return in 2021. The experience of Jeffers, Krishon Merriweather, Colin Schooler, Jacob Morgenstern and Brandon Bouyer-Randle, combined with the addition of transfer Jesiah Pierre, should allow the unit to have a successful season. - Dallas Morning News

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ILB Riko Jeffers, Texas Tech
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01/25/21 - Rayshad Williams, rSr/2024, Texas Tech, 6-2, 209 (DS#63 CB) + More +

Rayshad Williams on Friday became the second veteran UCLA defensive back to enter the transfer portal, joining Elijah Gates after Gates had said earlier in the week that he would leave as a graduate transfer. Williams, a redshirt sophomore, announced his decision to leave the Bruins on Twitter while thanking coaches and saying he intended to find a new football home for the 2021 season. Williams and Gates were once part-time starters whose roles shrank last season, when they both were exclusively reserves. But Gates tied fellow defensive backs Stephan Blaylock and Jay Shaw for the team lead with two interceptions in 2020, including one against Arizona that led to a sideline celebration with coach Chip Kelly. - Los Angeles Times

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CB Rayshad Williams, Texas Tech
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01/16/21 - T.J. Storment, rSr/2022, Texas Tech, 6-6, 322 (DS#44 OT) + More +

TCU left tackle T.J. Storment has put his name in the NCAA transfer portal, a source said on Friday. Storment, who spent one season with the program as a graduate transfer out of Colorado State, started the final seven games at left tackle. The 6-foot-7, 325-pound Storment emerged as one of TCU's top offensive lineman as the season progressed and earned second-team All-Big 12 honors from The Associated Press and was voted honorable mention All-Big 12 by the league's coaches. It's unclear where Storment may land. It will be his fifth school as he takes advantage of the NCAA freezing eligibility in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. - Fort Worth Star

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OT T.J. Storment, Texas Tech
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01/03/21 - DeBraylon Carroll, rSr/2025, Texas Tech, 6-0, 300 (DS#71 DT) + More +

2020 ALL-CONFERENCE USA FOOTBALL HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES): DT - De'braylon Carroll, So., Rice,...Carroll tied for second on the team with three tackles for loss in his first year as a starter. He was credited with 1.5 sacks for a loss of 13 yards and a pair of hurries in the shutout at Marshall. He finished sixth on team with 21 tackles. - Rice Football

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DT DeBraylon Carroll, Texas Tech
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01/02/21 - Josh Burger, rSr/2022, Texas Tech, 6-3, 301 (DS#117 OG) + More +

Josh Burger always wanted a chance to play college football at its highest level, in a power-five conference. Texas Tech gave Burger that opportunity last year, and the seasoned offensive tackle is going to make it last as long as possible. Burger announced Saturday he will remain with the Red Raiders in 2021, taking advantage of the chance all seniors have to return for another year because the NCAA isn't counting the pandemic-disrupted 2020 season against any player's eligibility. Burger, a 38-game starter, is the ninth Tech senior planning to return. Five are starters on defense and two on offense. - Lubbock Avalanche Journal

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OG Josh Burger, Texas Tech
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01/02/21 - Zech McPhearson, rSr/2021, Texas Tech, 5-11, 196 (DS#38 CB) + More +

Zech McPhearson will try to cash in on the breakout football season he put together in 2020. The Texas Tech cornerback announced Thursday he is declaring for the NFL draft. McPhearson is tied for second in the Big 12 with four interceptions - Oklahoma safety Tre Norwood took the lead in Wednesday's Cotton Bowl with his fifth - and McPhearson is fifth in the conference in passes defended with 10. The senior from Columbia, Maryland, also scored touchdowns with returns of a blocked field goal at Iowa State and a fumble against West Virginia. - Lubbock Avalanche Journal

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CB Zech McPhearson, Texas Tech
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01/02/21 - Kaylon Geiger Jr., rSr/2022, Texas Tech, 5-09, 172 (DS#153 WR) + More +

2020 ALL-SUN BELT CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM: Kaylon Geiger, Troy, WR,... Geiger tied for second in the league with 64 receptions and topped the 100-yard mark four times; he sits second in Troy history with nine 100-yard receiving games in his career. - Troy Football

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WR Kaylon Geiger Jr., Texas Tech
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01/02/21 - Jalin Conyers, rSr/2025, Texas Tech, 6-4, 260 (DS#19 TE) + More +

Oklahoma freshman Jalin Conyers is entering the NCAA transfer portal, he announced Wednesday morning via his Twitter account. Conyers, a 6-foot-4 receiver/tight end from Gruver, Texas, was a consensus four-star prospect and All-American Bowl selection but has yet to play for the Sooners this season. - Norman Transcript

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TE Jalin Conyers, Texas Tech
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01/02/21 - Cole Spencer, rSr/2024, Texas Tech, 6-4, 307 (DS#35 OG) + More +

2020 ALL-CONFERENCE USA FOOTBALL HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES): OL - Cole Spencer, R-Jr., WKU,...Honorable Mention players, who received at least one All-Conference vote, for WKU include Senior linebacker Kyle Bailey, Redshirt junior long snapper Matt Baldeck, Redshirt freshman defensive tackle Ricky Barber, Redshirt junior cornerback Dominique Bradshaw, Junior offensive tackle Mason Brooks, Redshirt senior linebacker Eli Brown, Redshirt senior defensive tackle Jeremy Darvin, Senior safety Antwon Kincade, Redshirt senior wide receiver Xavier Lane, Redshirt senior nickelback Trae Meadows, Sophomore tight end Joshua Simon, Redshirt junior offensive tackle Cole Spencer. - Western Kentucky Football

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OG Cole Spencer, Texas Tech
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