{"id":516644,"date":"2026-01-15T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516644\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:04:13","slug":"texas-lands-former-high-school-target-texas-am-ol-jonte-newman-out-of-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516644\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas lands former high school target, Texas A&#038;M OL Jonte Newman out of transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Longhorns<\/a><\/b> landed <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/texas-am\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a><\/b> interior offensive lineman <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/jonte-newman-46137842\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonte Newman<\/a><\/b> out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/texas\/season\/2026-football\/transferportal\/?institutionkey=24028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer portal<\/a> on Wednesday, he confirmed to Horns247. The former 2025 recruit from Bridgeland was a target of UT&#8217;s in the high school process as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texas has always been my dream school,&#8221; Newman said after a visit to Texas going into his junior season. &#8220;I just love to be here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They make you feel at home. They were just telling me like this is a great program to be at and how good it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always loved watching them. My dad actually went here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newman didn&#8217;t play during his freshman season in College Station. He&#8217;ll have four years of eligibility remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newman has not yet been ranked by 247Sports in the transfer portal yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4, 331-pounder from Cypress (Texas) Bridgeland ranked as the No. 25 interior offensive lineman in the country out of high school, per 247Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Texas Longhorns landed Texas A&amp;M interior offensive lineman Jonte Newman out of the transfer portal on Wednesday, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":516645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-516644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115896193306459055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516644","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=516644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}