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With the Texas Tech football team opening spring practice this week, updated roster sheets are as helpful as ever, more so than in some other years.
The Red Raiders have 27 players practicing with the team for the first time, including 18 who transferred in from other NCAA programs. Another nine are freshmen who enrolled in January. If that isn’t enough new names and jersey numbers to keep straight, four returning players have switched numbers.
Most notable in the latter group is wide receiver Coy Eakin, who’ll join linebacker Bryce Ramirez in wearing No. 3. In Joey McGuire’s program, that jersey number serves a dual purpose. One, to represent the fighting spirit of the late Luke Siegel, who wore it in youth sports. Secondly, as a hat tip to players deemed to best represent what McGuire calls “the brand,” the tough, hard-working, competitive identity he wants for the Red Raiders.
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Here’s a rundown of the players in new jerseys this spring.
Transfers who joined the Texas Tech football team this semester
0 — Skyler Gill-Howard, DT, Northern Illinois
0 — Quinten Joyner, RB, Southern California
1 — Reggie Virgil, WR, Miami (Ohio)
2 — Lee Hunter, DT, Central Florida
5 — Cole Wisniewski, S, North Dakota State
7 — Terrance Carter Jr., TE, Louisiana-Lafayette
9 — Romello Height, DE, Georgia Tech
12 — Mitch Griffis, QB, Wake Forest/Marshall
19 — Brice Pollock, CB, Mississippi State
20 — Dontae Balfour, CB, North Carolina-Charlotte
23 — Tarrion Grant, CB, Purdue
27 — Upton Bellenfant, K, Buffalo
27 — Amier Boyd, CB, Texas-El Paso
33 — Anthony Holmes Jr., DT, Houston
57 — Hunter Zambrano, OL, Illinois State
76 — Will Jados, OT,…
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Author : Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Publish date : 2025-03-11 15:28:00
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