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Texas Tech football has 31 players with new numbers this spring. See them all here.
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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.
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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.
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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
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57 — Hunter Zambrano, OL, Illinois State
76 — Will Jados, OT, Miami (Ohio)
79 — Howard Sampson, OT, North Carolina
80 — Jalen Brattain, TE, Chaminade
Texas Tech's Terrance Carter Jr. catches a pass during spring football practice, Monday, March 10, 2025, at the Womble Football Center.
Returning players who have changed numbers
3 — Coy Eakin, IR, Stephenville
4 — T.J. West, WR, Humble
11 — Tyson Turner, WR, Bryan
13 — Price Morgan, IR, Pflugerville Weiss
Freshmen who joined the Texas Tech football team this semester
10 — Lloyd Jones III, QB, Hitchcock
16 — Holden Phillips, QB, Frenship
17 — Leyton Stone, WR, Frenship
31 — Deante Lindsay, CB, Ada, Oklahoma
41 — Brock Golwas, LB, Flower Mound Marcus
50 — Patrick McMath, C, Katy
61 — Connor Carty, OG, Prosper
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84 — Michael Dever, WR, Lubbock-Cooper
87 — Preztynn Harrison, TE, Mineral Wells
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech football has 31 players with new numbers: The list
