{"id":362546,"date":"2025-09-12T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/362546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:24:10","slug":"lakeyleon-graves-4-star-ath-commits-to-texas-state-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/362546\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeyleon Graves, 4-star ATH, commits to Texas State football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>247Sports&#8217; composite rankings place Graves as the 51st-best player in Texas and the 30th-ranked ATH in the nation. He plays wide receiver and outside linebacker for Kilgore High School, recording 761 receiving yards and 13 touchdowns as a junior. Graves chose Texas State over Houston, Missouri and Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Texas State\u2019s top-rated high school recruit before hiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/football\/article\/texas-state-football-arizona-state-gj-kinne-21036885.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head coach GJ Kinne<\/a> in 2023 was running back Jamel James. A three-star from Cinco Ranch High School in Katy, James landed at Texas State in 2013 after decommitting from Notre Dame. But since Kinne\u2019s hire, the Bobcats&#8217; recruiting has taken a huge leap. Its classes from 2023 to 2025 have all ranked within the top 100 in the nation according to 247Sports&#8217; composite rankings, having last achieved that mark in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats&#8217; current best came last cycle, when they ended 89th in the nation. And while the recruiting battle doesn&#8217;t stop until the players enroll and step foot onto campus, things are looking up for now in San Marcos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"247Sports&#8217; composite rankings place Graves as the 51st-best player in Texas and the 30th-ranked ATH in the nation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[331,7,49,5065,13869,32006,57826,21179],"class_list":{"0":"post-362546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-division-i","12":"tag-texas-high-school-football","13":"tag-texas-state-bobcats-football","14":"tag-texas-state-university","15":"tag-texas-state-bobcats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115192257891579686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362546","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=362546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}