{"id":21079,"date":"2025-06-28T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21079\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:12:09","slug":"smus-red-hot-recruiting-run-continues-with-four-star-ot-evan-goodwin-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21079\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU\u2019s red-hot recruiting run continues with four-star OT Evan Goodwin, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">One day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/06\/26\/flower-mound-four-star-offensive-lineman-drew-evers-commits-to-smu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2025\/06\/26\/flower-mound-four-star-offensive-lineman-drew-evers-commits-to-smu\/\">landing Flower Mound four-star offensive lineman Drew Evers<\/a>, Rhett Lashlee and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/\">SMU<\/a> were back at it on the recruiting trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Evan Goodwin, a four-star offensive tackle from Bauxite, Ark., committed to the Mustangs Friday night. The news was first reported by On3\u2019s Billy Embody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Goodwin chose SMU over Missouri, Mississippi State and Oklahoma State. He made official visits to each of those schools over the last two months, as well as Wisconsin and Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The 6-foot-7, 325-pounder ranks as the No. 2 player in the state of Arkansas, as well as the the No. 19 offensive tackle and No. 238 overall player in the Class of 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/evan-goodwin-46146339\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/evan-goodwin-46146339\/\">according to 247 Sports\u2019 composite rating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Goodwin is SMU\u2019s 19th commitment and sixth four-star prospect to commit to the Mustangs in this recruiting cycle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/smu-mustangs\/football\/2026\/industry-comparison-commits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/smu-mustangs\/football\/2026\/industry-comparison-commits\/\">According to On3\u2019s 2026 team recruiting rankings<\/a>, SMU\u2019s class is No. 17 in the country and No. 4 in the ACC.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/2025\/06\/28\/with-texas-state-on-its-way-to-pac-12-where-does-conference-realignment-stand-in-texas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">With Texas State on its way to Pac-12, where does conference realignment stand in Texas?<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/2025\/06\/27\/texas-texas-am-crack-top-10-in-ea-sports-team-rankings-for-college-football-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas, Texas A&amp;M crack top 10 in EA Sports\u2019 team rankings for College Football 26<\/a><\/ul>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more college sports coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more SMU coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after landing Flower Mound four-star offensive lineman Drew Evers, Rhett Lashlee and SMU were back at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[347,10857,1318,1317,1315,1316,19503,14971,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-21079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-rhett-lashlee","15":"tag-smu-mustangs","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114759515888982247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}