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Eli Lederman
Texas Tech‘s offseason expertise acquisition spree continued on the highschool recruiting path Thursday with a dedication from five-star exterior linebacker LaDamion Guyton, ESPN’s No. 5 total prospect within the 2027 class.
Guyton, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound recruit from Savannah, Georgia, is the No. 2 defender within the ESPN Junior 300. He picked the Purple Raiders over Alabama, Florida State, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.
“They do an excellent job of constructing you’re feeling such as you’re one among their gamers already whenever you’re within the constructing,” Guyton advised ESPN of Texas Tech. “It is a feeling that pulls you in. They’ve issues moving into the fitting course and it is thrilling realizing I will be a part of that sometime.”
Guyton can not formally signal with a school program for an additional 16 months, however his dedication marks the music domino in an plentiful run for coach Joey McGuire and Purple Raiders basic supervisor James Blanchard.
This system invested closely within the winter and spring switch portal home windows, in the end securing 21 additions inside ESPN’s top-ranked switch class forward of the 2025 season. The prolonged record of newcomers this fall is headlined by defensive linemen David Bailey (Stanford), Romello Height (Georgia Tech) and Lee Hunter (UCF) and FCS All-American security Cole Wisniewski (North Dakota State). Former five-star signee Micah Hudson rejoined this system this spring following a winter switch to Texas A&M.
The Purple Raiders have additionally been lively on the highschool recruiting path this summer time, including 9 commitments within the 2026 class since June 1. Probably the most vital was the pledge of five-star offensive sort out Felix Ojo (No. 20 total) on the again of a seismic, seven-figure revenue share contract.
In Guyton, the Purple Raiders now maintain one of the coveted commitments within the 2027 recruiting cycle.
Guyton has been credited with 134 complete tackles and 16.5 sacks over two varsity seasons at Savannah (Georgia) Christian Preparatory Faculty. He transferred to close by Benedictine Army Faculty in January, and Guyton advised ESPN that he has not dominated out the potential of reclassifying into the 2026 class and becoming a member of Texas Tech subsequent 12 months.
Whereas the Purple Raiders maintain solely two ESPN 300 pledges within the 2026 cycle, sources advised ESPN that Texas Tech is predicted to take a position closely within the 2027 class with four-star offensive sort out Cooper Hackett (No. 19 within the ESPN Junior 300) and No. 2 total quarterback Kavian Bryant (No. 48 total) among the many precedence targets.