TCU football receives commitments from Spring Westfield, Louisiana players

The TCU football program received two recruiting commitments Sunday, giving them a recruiting class of 16 players with National Signing Day fast approaching on Wednesday.

Wide receiver/athlete Nijeel Meeking of Farmerville (La.) Union Parish announced on Twitter that he had chosen the Horned Frogs in what Scout.com called a “surprise commitment.”

Safety Kerry Johnson of Spring Westfield in north suburban Houston made his commitment earlier Sunday.

TCU has 16 commitments on the Rivals.com list, including recent junior college transfer, 315-pound defensive tackle Ezra Tu’ua from Los Angeles Harbor College.

Meeking, 6-foot-3, 195 pounds, is rated as a two-star prospect by Rivals.com and Scout.com. In his Twitter announcement, he said he was decommitting from Louisiana-Lafayette but is now “110% committed to TCU.”

Johnson, 6-1, 185 pounds, is the Frogs’ second commitment at safety, joining Lakendrick Van Zandt from Henderson. Johnson is listed as a two-star prospect. He was the District 16-6A MVP, according to 247Sports.

The Frogs, 6-7 last season, had only eight scholarship seniors on their roster.

Late Sunday, Scout.com reported that the Frogs added two commitments to the 2018 class after holding Junior Day. Devin Phillips is a 6-2, 255-pound guard from a Frogs recruiting hot spot, Monroe (La.) Neville, and Ochaun Mathis is a 6-5, 210-pound defensive end from Manor High School, northeast of Austin.

This story was originally published January 29, 2017 at 4:21 PM with the headline "TCU football receives commitments from Spring Westfield, Louisiana players."