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Eli Lederman
5-star offensive deal with Felix Ojo, No. 20 within the 2026 ESPN 300, dedicated to Texas Tech on Friday upon signing a historic, seven-figure income share contract with the Crimson Raiders, his agent Derrick Shelby of Status Administration instructed ESPN.
Ojo, a 6-foot-7, 285-pound prospect from Mansfield, Texas, is ESPN’s No. 4 offensive deal with and second-ranked recruit from the state of Texas within the 2026 class. He selected Texas Tech over Florida, Michigan, Ohio State and Texas following a slate of official visits this spring. Ojo will arrive as this system’s highest-ranked addition since ESPN started rating highschool prospects within the 2006 recruiting cycle.
Per Shelby, Ojo is about to hitch Texas Tech on a completely assured three-year, $5.1 million contract.
The deal is believed to be one of many largest totally assured revenue-share agreements in faculty soccer historical past beneath the recently approved federal settlement that permits faculty packages to pay their athletes instantly. Ojo’s deal now rivals the profitable multiyear package that top-ranked 2026 offensive deal with Jackson Cantwell secured with Miami earlier this yr, which sources instructed ESPN will earn the nation’s No. 3 total prospect greater than $2 million yearly with incentives.
“Soccer is a brutal sport, and athletes usually are not capable of play professionally till their graduating class has been in faculty three years,” Shelby instructed ESPN. “It was necessary to have the ability to safe Felix Ojo’s future and provides him and his household some safety as he continues to develop right into a first-round NFL draft decide.”
Ojo’s settlement with Texas Tech marks the varsity’s visual exposure transfer in a string of serious expenditures over the previous yr.
ESPN’s Max Olson reported in February that the Red Raiders spent more than $10 million on 17 new players within the winter switch portal window final December. All instructed, Texas Tech made 21 portal additions whereas assembling the nation’s second-ranked transfer class this offseason.
The Crimson Raiders additionally made waves final summer time when the Matador Membership, the varsity’s NIL assortment, helped the softball program land switch phenom NiJaree Canady from Stanford on a one-year, $1,050,024 deal. Canady, who can be represented by Shelby, signed another seven-figure contract with the Matador Membership final month after main the Crimson Raiders to their first Girls’s School World Collection look and a nationwide runner-up end in her debut season with this system.
A multiyear starter at Texas’ Lake Ridge Excessive College and one of many nation’s prime offensive line prospects, Ojo marks a seismic recruiting win for Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire and the Crimson Raiders.
Ojo will be a part of Texas Tech in 2026 as this system’s first five-star signee since huge receiver Micah Hudson in 2024.
Ojo’s record of official visits this spring included stops at Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Utah and Texas together with the Crimson Raiders previous to his pledge. Sources instructed ESPN that Texas and Utah had been among the many packages that provided Ojo essentially the most substantial revenue-share contracts within the last levels of his recruitment.
Ojo represents Texas Tech’s first ESPN 300 addition amongst 18 prospects dedicated to this system within the 2026 cycle, a bunch that features 13 in-state pledges. He lands as a cornerstone commit in a Crimson Raiders offensive line class that additionally includes a pair of spring pledges in three-star offensive guard Jerald Mays and offensive deal with Jacob Crow.