\n Waiting for his Moment<\/p>\n
Broughton started 15 games for Texas in 2024, emerging as a regular starter and recording a career-high 39 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, and 4.0 sacks. He developed in a crowded defensive line room that featured 2024 NFL Draft picks Byron Murphy II and T’Vondre Sweat before stepping into a full-time starting role.<\/p>\n
\n Playoff Performer<\/p>\n
Broughton combined for 11 tackles (eight solo, three assisted) in Texas’ postseason games: six tackles vs. Georgia (12\/7), one vs. Clemson (12\/21) and four vs. Arizona State (1\/1).<\/p>\n
\n Texas High School Star<\/p>\n
An All-American and two-time all-district honoree for Cypress Ridge High School, Broughton was selected to participate in the 2020 Under Armour All-America Game. As a senior, he recorded 36 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, three sacks, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. He primarily played basketball in high school until his sophomore year.<\/p>\n
\n Scholar-Athlete<\/p>\n
A former four-star recruit out of Cypress Ridge, Broughton was a finalist for the prestigious Watkins Award, honoring the nation’s top African-American high school scholar-athlete. In college he was selected as 2020-21 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team honoree and was a three-time member of the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (fall 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022).<\/p>\n
\n Off the Field<\/p>\n
Broughton married Camille Griffin in 2024, missing Texas’ spring game for his wedding, which had been scheduled prior to the game announcement. He and his wife are expecting a baby due in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waiting for his Moment Broughton started 15 games for Texas in 2024, emerging as a regular starter and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[39,1196,19,508,7,81,896,55,2572,2571,6,397,1197],"class_list":{"0":"post-16563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-2025-draft","9":"tag-2025pick71","10":"tag-draft","11":"tag-draft-tracker-card","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-new-orleans","15":"tag-new-orleans-saints","16":"tag-neworleans","17":"tag-neworleanssaints","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-saints","20":"tag-vernon-broughton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114435423578956007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}