{"id":714207,"date":"2026-01-29T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/714207\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:05:11","slug":"north-texas-has-52-incoming-transfers-after-12-win-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/714207\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas has 52 incoming transfers after 12-win season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 North Texas has 52 transfers on its spring roster for new coach Neal Brown, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-texas-neal-brown-morris-418ed56da7ca9eb0d0d22e14a63cc588\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">significant turnover for the Mean Green<\/a>\u00a0after they won a school-record 12 games and finished the season in the AP Top 25 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The 96-player roster released Wednesday included 44 returning players, but national passing leader Drew Mestemaker was among about a dozen players who followed former UNT coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/eric-morris-oklahoma-state-e2e39b5be3cce877c74dc03e69ef465d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Morris to Oklahoma State<\/a>. North Texas&#8217; top rusher and receiver also went with Morris to the Big 12 Conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/drew-mestemaker-transfer-portal-unt-9b823f4b97c09450248181d1d856cdaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mestemaker threw for 4,379 yards<\/a>\u00a0and 34 touchdowns as a freshman in his only season starting for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 24 North Texas<\/a>, while Caleb Hawkins rushed for 1,434 yards and 25 touchdowns as a freshman. Sophomore Wyatt Young was the Mean Green&#8217;s top receiver with 70 catches for 1,264 yards and 10 TDs.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 22 transfers from Power Four schools is running back Jaheim White, who played the past three seasons at West Virginia, his first two when Brown was the coach there. He has seven career 100-yard rushing games and 2,200 all-purpose yards.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore quarterback Chris Jimerson, who attempted only two passes behind Mestemaker, is back. The Mean Green added two transfer QBs, senior Tayven Jackson from UCF and redshirt freshman Chaston Ditta from East Carolina. Jackson previously spent two seasons at Indiana after beginning his career at Tennessee and has 16 starts in his 27 games played.<\/p>\n<p>At receiver, there are six portal additions, along with six returning players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 North Texas has 52 transfers on its spring roster for new coach Neal Brown,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14147,1615,2910,339,229,7,49,48,88,9,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-714207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-app-college-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115979008274764614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714207","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=714207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}