Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire talks about his hopes for WR Micah Hudson
The Texas Tech football fan base has been caught up in quite the whirlwind this week. The program has hired two new coordinators and signed its 2025 high school recruiting class in the span of just four days. But the event that kicked off the entire week of craziness was the reported decision by former 5-star wide receiver Micah Hudson to enter the transfer portal after just one season as a Red Raider.
Wednesday, at a press conference in which he was announcing Texas Tech’s 2025 signing class, head coach Joey McGuire was asked about Hudson’s status. His response did not give a ton of clarity to the situation.
“Transfer portal opens December 9th,” McGuire said. “And so we’ll see. It’s funny, everybody puts a lot of stuff out and there’s going to be people that said they were in the portal that were never actually in the portal and there’s going to be some that get in the portal.
“And if there are any of our guys, then I’m going to help them every step of the way if they want my help, if they need my help. And if not, they’ll be Red Raiders. So ask me that question December 9th, for sure if he’s here or not.”
There have been conflicting rumors online about Hudson’s intentions. But there seems to be no question that he’s mulling over his options. Still, McGuire indicated that he’s been in contact with the former high school All-American.
“I sent him a text today and he responded to the text, you know,” McGuire said. “So it’s one of those deals, I recruit these guys and I want them here. And then there’s some that have moved on and felt like there are better situations and everything like that.
McGuire then went on to point out that he’s had success with transfers in a statement that sounded like it was intended to calm any fears fans may have about the potential loss of Hudson.
“There’s some that we’ve brought in that were much better. I don’t think anybody would disagree, we’ll stay with the wide receivers, we lost some wide receivers that were really good, they were productive and we replaced them with a lot more production and a better football player in Josh Kelly and Caleb Douglas.”
Of course, Hudson couldn’t be described as “productive” this year as a freshman. He caught only 8 passes for 123 yards in his first college season. McGuire talked about why Hudson didn’t live up to the hype in 2024 that arrived with him on signing day a year ago.
“The injury affected him to where, going through camp, of like how he was progressing and getting caught up,” he said, “and then he really got to where we were like ‘OK, he’s really got his legs beneath him, here we go’ and then he gets hurt again.
“And then there’s little things. We’re a play away from him, he’s wide-open if we hit him in the endzone, he catches the game-winner against TCU. Does everybody feel the same and everything like that? I do wish, when you go back…that he comes in healthy, that he hadn’t been playing high school football with that kind of knee injury and it would have already been done and he would have been back quicker and stuff like that and I think that would have changed some stuff.”
Right now, it is anyone’s guess as to what Micah Hudson’s future is. But it at least sounds like his head coach has the desire to keep him in the mix at Texas Tech. Only time will tell if that happens but at least McGuire isn’t already talking about Hudson as if he’s certain to depart. That’s a bit of a positive development for Texas Tech fans who are hoping that Hudson will remain a Red Raider.
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