Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury assured me more than once on Monday that Nigel Bethel II would be at practice that afternoon.
Sure enough, the Red Raiders’ cornerback was present, in uniform and accounted for, and a segment of the Texas Tech fan base let out a sigh of relief.
If you hadn’t heard, Bethel sent many Tech fans on social media into a panic over the weekend with implications that he’d left the team. Or something like that.
In the spot he’d previously identified himself on Twitter as a dual-sport Tech athlete, he scrubbed that and put “free agent.