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Jersey Number 26
Deante Lindsay
- Position:
- Cornerback
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 185
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Ada, Okla.
- High School:
- Ada
2025 SEASON (FRESHMAN)
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- Redshirt season โฆ did not see any game action as a true freshman โฆ scout team member โฆ recognized as the defensive scout team player of the week following Texas Techโs win over UCF (11/15) late in the season.ย
- NCAA TRANSFER PORTAL: entered the transfer portal following the season, eventually signing with Abilene Christian.ย
HIGH SCHOOL
- Attended Ada High School, approximately 80 miles southeast of Oklahoma City โฆ featured as a wide receiver, cornerback, safety and nickelback under the guidance of head coach Wade Boyles. ย
- Helped lead the Ada Cougars in 2024 to its first district championship since 2017 as a senior โฆ ย scored a defensive touchdown, by forcing and recovering a fumble, and returning it 27 yards for a touchdown, in the district-clinching 40-14 win over Sallisaw on senior night โฆ the Cougars finished the regular season at 7-3 overall โฆ Ada piled up 631 total yards of offense to win its first-round playoff game, 53-50, over Cushing before falling in the quarterfinals, 30-6, to Bethany to see its season come to and end at 8-4. ย
- Led Ada with 987ย receiving yards and 11 receiving touchdowns on 53 receptions as a senior โฆ on the defensive side, racked up 53 tackles and one interception as a senior โฆ caught 36 passes for 859 yards and 13 touchdowns during his junior season, while also making 51 tackles to go along with five interceptions. ย
- A three-sport athlete that also competed for the basketball and track teams โฆ was an Oklahoma 4A 300-meter hurdles silver medalist as a junior with a time of 39.97 โฆ previously ran a personal best time of 39.47 earlier in the year, which ranked 16th in the state โฆ placed fourth in the state in the 110-meter hurdles that same year with a time of 15.42 โฆ personal best in the 110-meter hurdles was a 14.99 that was run earlier in the spring of 2024.
- Originally offered by the Texas Tech staff in Feb. 2024 before committing that June โฆ consensus three-star prospect by the likes of On3, 247Sports, ESPN and Rivals โฆ ranked as high as No. 10 in the state of Oklahoma for the 2025 class โฆ listed as the No. 40 cornerback in the country by On3 โฆ CHOSE TEXAS TECH OVER: Boston College, Harvard, Tulsa, UNLV and Utah.
PERSONAL
- Deante Lindsay โฆ son of Franklin Lindsay and Edna Blue โฆ siblings are Shaunette Lindsay, Kira Blue, and Hilary Griffen โฆ father was a three-year starter at defensive back at East Central University. ย
- Enjoys fishing, hunting, ranching as well as welding in his spare time.
- Intends to seek collegiate studies in entrepreneurship.
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