{"id":751302,"date":"2026-04-25T03:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/751302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:27:15","slug":"titans-select-texas-lb-anthony-hill-jr-in-second-round-after-moving-up-in-trade-with-the-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/751302\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans Select Texas LB Anthony Hill Jr. in Second Round After Moving Up in Trade With the Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hill (6-2, 238) was a second-team Associated Press All-American two years in a row for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Hill tallied 69 tackles, four sacks and seven tackles for a loss while earning the honor in a year when he was also finalist for the Butkus Award, which goes to the nation&#8217;s top linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Hill earned second-team AP All-American honors after leading the team with 113 tackles, eight sacks and 16.5 tackles for a loss.<\/p>\n<p>In three college seasons, Hill played in 40 games and accumulated 249 tackles, seven sacks and 31.5 tackles for a loss.<\/p>\n<p>Titans General Manager Mike Borgonzi said the team likes what he&#8217;s all about on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is the prototype linebacker in this defense \u2013 long, fast, violent \u2013 that we always talk about,&#8221; Borgonzi said. &#8220;When he sees it, he goes, fast and violent. He fits what we want here. \u2026 A tremendous kid, great football character.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hill (6-2, 238) was a second-team Associated Press All-American two years in a row for the Longhorns. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":751303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[309223,309224,308387,91160,308308,51,13880,50,308386,55472,52],"class_list":["post-751302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2026-draft-anthony-hill","tag-2026pick60","tag-all-content-2026-draft","tag-anthony-hill-jr","tag-draft-tracker-card","tag-headlines","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-news","tag-news-2026-draft","tag-team-football-news","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116463222659999126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751302","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=751302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}