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Eli LedermanNov 29, 2025, 12:23 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n Texas<\/a> and coach Steve Sarkisian got on the board in the 2027 recruiting class on Saturday when five-star wide receiver Easton Royal<\/a>, No. 16 in the ESPN Junior 300<\/a>, announced his commitment to the Longhorns.<\/p>\n Royal, a 6-foot, 195-pound pass catcher from New Orleans, is ESPN’s No. 3 wide receiver in the 2027 cycle. He picked Texas over Ole Miss<\/a>, LSU<\/a>, Oregon<\/a> and a long list of other Power 4 programs.<\/p>\n Royal lands as the first member in the Longhorns’ 2027 class less than 24 hours after visiting the program for No. 16 Texas’ 27-17 win<\/a> over No. 3 Texas A&M<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n Royal is a junior at Louisiana’s Brother Martin High School, where he hauled in 53 catches for 1,151 yards and 17 touchdowns this fall. He now trails only five-stars Jamier Brown<\/a> (Ohio State<\/a>) and Jalen Brewster<\/a> (Texas Tech<\/a>) as ESPN’s highest-ranked commit in the 2027 class.<\/p>\n Royal’s commitment comes as the Longhorns work to put the finishing touches on their 2026 recruiting class, which currently ranks seventh in ESPN’s class rankings for the cycle.<\/p>\n Texas hosted a pair of high-profile flip targets Friday in Baylor<\/a> defensive end pledge Jamarion Carlton<\/a> (No. 96 overall) and three-star UCLA<\/a> safety commit Toray Davis<\/a>. The Longhorns are also continuing to push on a pair of top-100 LSU pledges, offensive tackle Brysten Martinez<\/a> (No. 84) and defensive tackle Richard Anderson<\/a> (No. 90), prior to this week’s early signing period. As things stand, four-star wide receiver Chris Stewart<\/a> (No. 185) is the lone ESPN 300 pass catcher set to sign with the Longhorns in the 2026 class.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eli LedermanNov 29, 2025, 12:23 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Texas and coach Steve Sarkisian got on the board in the 2027 recruiting class on Saturday when five-star wide receiver […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2181210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Texas-gets-first-2027-commitment-in-5-star-WR-Easton-Royal.pngh80w80scalecrop.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181211,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181209\/revisions\/2181211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World.<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n