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An updated look at defensive line recruiting The Texas Longhorns made three new offers on the defensive line since the start of the 2024 season. And a fourth could be on the way, this time inside the state line. Kenny Baker continues to eye three or four high school defensive line prospects in the 2025 cycle. The Longhorns have one commitment, and it's a huge on in Josiah Sharma. Texas remains in the mix for a potential flip or two as well. OnTexasFootball takes a look at defensive line board with the three new offers in the Atlanta area extended, and Malcolm Simpson entering the picture for Texas. Commitment (1) Josiah Sharma, DL, Folsom (Cali…

Four days away. And, appropriately, Roy Williams is expected to join us for Coffee & Football this morning. What was your favorite catch by Roy? I think mine was his very first. It was a juggling deep ball over the middle, a catch that he made that no other Longhorn on the roster could have. It showed everyone in the stands that day just what a special player Texas would have on its hands for the next several years. ** We continue to hear more and more about Texas likely platooning receiver units, at least in this very first game. ** Sark made it very clear yesterday that this initial “depth chart” for the game against Colorado State…

One final opportunity to get some predictions in for the 2024 season and that is what we will do here for the entirety of the SEC conference. I will drop three recrods below each team – a ceiling, a floor and my final prediction with a brief description of how each record could be met. *** Alabama Ceiling: 11–1 Floor: 8–4 Prediction: 10–2 The fall off for Alabama won't be coming anytime soon, especially with the hiring of Kalen DeBoer. I do think there will be some bumps in the road for Milroe/DeBoer and their cohesiveness. However, there is still so much talent on this roster and Milroe was playing his way into Heisman considerati…

Steve Sarkisian and a number of players will be made available to the media following this morning’s practice. As we move into this season, Sark will be made available every Monday and we’ll have reports from that. ** Couple of notes from the weekend: - I am told the punting job has been perhaps the most hotly contested, untalked about position competition of the summer. Ian Ratliff and Michael Kern were said to still be going head to head into the weekend. Even Charlie Ferris had not been entirely dismissed from the competition though I have heard less about him. - I am hearing it is more and more likely that Texas will use a platoon system …

Just a few random nuggets I wanted to pass along for the evening as we get closer and closer to kickoff. *** Number Changes – Ryan Niblett will be wearing the No. 21 this upcoming season for the Longhorns, moving from #18 he wore last fall and in the spring. Junior quarterback Joe Tatum is now listed as the No. 18 on the offensive side of the ball. – New Texas RB Velton Gardner will be wearing No. 24 for the Longhorns this season as well. He is officially on the Texas roster as well. *** Texas Wants the Heat I spoke with a source earlier this afternoon who hinted at the Texas team wanting something a lot of the fans and attendees on…

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is on the podium for his first weekly press conference of the season. With Texas set to kickoff against Colorado State Saturday at 2:30 p.m., we can finally focus our attention to a real opponent and beyond what is happening behind the curtain in practice. Sarkisian will be followed by a small handful of players for media availabilities as well. View full news story

Season Long statistics for the 2024 Texas Offense It is game week! So on top of being excited for football to return to Austin, Texas, this week also provides one final opportunity to get your season predictions in and that is exactly what we are doing today! Surely, knowing my history with predictions, these will be accurate when we reflect at the conclusion of the year! Only for the 12-team regular season, here are my predictions for the 2024 Texas Offense: *** Quarterback Quinn Ewers Stats: 279/391 passing, 71.3% completion %, 3489 yards, 33 TD, 7 INT, 8.76 YPA, 290.75 YPG I really like this stat line for Ewers in 2024 and I believe…

Where will the Texas 2025 class finish? With the commitments of Nick Brooks (Lawrenceville, Ga./Grayson) and Jonah Williams (Galveston, Texas/Ball) the last two days, the Texas Longhorns are firmly inside the top 10 class rankings in the industry. Whether it's No. 7 or No. 8, Texas has ascended into the top 10 and is poised to go higher in the next week. OnTexasFootball sees a fourth straight top 5 class remaining a strong possibility, with the understanding that Steve Sarkisian and staff are expected to sign a 24 or 25 man class. The Horns currently have 18 commitments, and are trending for two others yet to make announcements. OTF takes a look at where…

Difference makers matter. That’s the type of player and commitment Texas earned yesterday in Jonah Williams - a difference maker. The size, speed and athleticism are all there. And so too is the production. He picked off four passes last year and returned three for TDs. He also had two touchdowns rushing and 144 yards on just two carries. He averaged more than 24 yards per catch on 20 receptions. He hasn’t even played his senior season yet he’s already a two-time district MVP. As Steve Sarkisian continues to load the roster with talent, a few will still standout. Jonah Williams is one of those. ** The simulated game yesterday began …

Decision Day: Galveston Ball safety Jonah Williams Galveston (Texas) Ball High safety Jonah Williams will announce his commitment around 6:30 p.m. central today. Williams, 6-3 and 205 pounds, will announce out of a final group of Texas, LSU, Texas A&M, Oregon and USC. In the last week, the close to home schools have been talked about behind the scenes with Texas and LSU receiving the most mention. Williams has stayed in contact with at least four schools in the last couple of weeks. OnTexasFootball had Williams at 65% to Texas at the beginning of the week, and has not heard anything as of Friday evening to push back against that. Texas received…

Add another #BigHuman to the 2025 Texas class! Kyle Flood and Steve Sarkisian go out of state to add OT Nick Brooks out of Grayson, Georgia as the fifth offensive lineman in the 2025 class. Texas did a tremendous job early in this recruitment and the official visit to Austin really helped distance themselves from the pack. Texas did a great job of preventing Georgia and USC from coming in late, though this will be a battle until signing day with Brooks now living much closer to Athens. The Longhorns now have five offensive linemen in the class of 2025, as Brooks joins the Coleman brothers, Jackson Christian and John Mills. Texas is up to 17 commitments…

A look at defensive line recruiting The Texas Longhorns have made three new offers on the defensive line in the last few days with Kenny Baker eyeing three or four high school defensive line prospects in the 2025 cycle. The Longhorns have one commitment, and it's a huge on in Josiah Sharma. Texas remains in the mix for a potential flip as well. OnTexasFootball takes a look at defensive line board with the three new offers in the Atlanta area extended. Commitment (1) Josiah Sharma, DL, Folsom (Calif.) High #AllGasNoBrakes OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ Still in contact Myron Charles, DL, Port Charlotte (Fla.) High - FSU commit On…

Last night I was on a panel with three former Longhorn players - Tony Hills, Alex Okafor and Fozzy Whittaker - at the Dallas Texas Exes season kick-off event. Not only was it a great event, but as I was sitting up there, I started thinking about how uplifting it was to see all three of those men up there, years after playing for Texas, succeeding in life and talking positively about their experiences as Longhorns. That was just great to witness. Hats off to the Dallas Texas-Exes, and Doug Rice in particular, for putting it all together. ** One thing Fozzy said last night that caught my ear. Fozzy said he was talking to Tashard Choice last week. And Cho…

Decision Day: 4-star OL Nick Brooks OnTexasFootball 4-star+ offensive lineman Nick Brooks (Lawrenceville, Ga./Grayson) will announced his decision at 3pm central today. Brooks, 6-7 and 365, will announce out of Texas, Georgia and USC. Brooks made official visits to all three finalists in June. Since that time, there has been consistent confidence out of Austin. The Cedar Rapids, Ia. native made an unofficial visit to Texas April 20 for the spring game. That visit firmly placed Texas in the race, with Georgia leading at that time. Should Brooks announce for Texas today, he would give the Longhorns five offensive lineman commitments in the 2025 c…

Thursday morning recruiting nuggets The next nine days will tell the story if the Texas Longhorns will begin the 2024 season against Colorado State with a top 8 ranked class. There are three impactful decisions on August 23, 24 and the 30th that will tell the story of where the 2025 class will be sitting at the statr of the season. OnTexasFootball provides the latest nuggets from the recruiting trail. August 23 Nick Brooks, OT, Loganville (Ga.) Grayson OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+ The juice: Texas continues to trend over Georgia and USC ahead of the Friday announcement. Kyle Flood has been the most consistent with the recruitment of the 6-7, 365 p…

The addition of Velton Gardner, the Dallas Skyline product who spent the previous five years shuffling between Kansas and SMU, gives you a picture of just how thin the RB room is right now. Sure, Texas has three quality (and healthy) RBs still. But if one or two of those guys goes down during the season, the Horns can’t put 30+ carries on any single back. Situations like that keep coaches up at night. While Gardner is not expected to be a world beater, he is the one Sark and company circled and found in the portal at such a late date. ** If you recall, this is not the first time Sark has added a player this close to football season. Two years ago,…

A couple five-star recruiting nuggets. *** Our Gerry Hamilton has done a tremendous job of covering the Jonah Williams recruitment from start to finish here. I wanted to add some nuggets from a pair of conversations earlier today with folks from two different programs that were at one point in the lead for five-star Jonah Williams. The consensus is two things – first, the battle is LSU and Texas. And secondly, more signs point to Austin than to Baton Rouge. Williams will decided on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and right now, I am of firm belief that the Longhorns are going to be celebrating come kickoff of the SMU and Nevada game. *** Onto Alamo H…

Percentages on Texas top uncommitted targets Believe it or not, the Texas Longhorns are still in the hunt for a fourth straight top 5 class. With 16 commitments and a class expected to go as high as 24 signees, there is plenty of runway left for Steve Sarkisian and staff. And the chance also remains that the Longhorns are firmly inside the top 10 class rankings by the time the season begins August 31. With a number of decisions to be announced this week, OnTexasFootball gives out percentages on the top uncommitted targets on the board. August 21 Michael Fasusi, OT, Lewisville (Texas) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ OTF %: 30%, with OU 65…

Running back Velton Gardner has announced via his Instagram that he will be joining Texas this season as a graduate transfer. Gardner spent his first two seasons with Kansas and last three with SMU, adding some much needed experience and depth to the Texas running back room. View full news story

Texas is back on the practice field early Tuesday morning as preparations for Colorado State have begun. Just 11 days away from the start of the 2024 season, Texas has already experienced some adversity before ever lining up against someone in a different jersey. Having lost both CJ Baxter and Christian Clark for the season due to injuries, the Texas staff has been forced to scramble a little bit to ensure the necessary depth and talent is available for the long run this fall. That even includes the possibility of Texas going out to add another body out of the grad transfer ranks should the right piece present itself. *** Here is what we know + how I a…

A couple of practice nuggets now that the Texas Longhorns are within ten days of kickoff for the 2024 season. *** – C Jake Majors has been back on the field for the past two days of practice. Majors has been active and participating in team drills despite being held out of the Longhorns second scrimmage of the fall on Saturday with an ankle sprain. Again, to echo Steve Sarkisian, it was more a "business decision" to hold Majors out of the scrimmage. If there was a game tomorrow, Majors would be on the field participating, needless to say, but we expect him in the starting 11 for Colorado State. – In regards to the rest of the OL, there was a lot of Hay…

I posted a poll on our YouTube community page asking who folks thought the surprise of fall camp has been. On the surface, the answer is simple: Silas Bolden has become an indispensable piece of the offense. It’s not only his quickness and playmaking ability but his attitude and willingness to make the extra block that I’m told has been contagious among teammates. Of all the things I expected from Bolden, his team-first, can-do attitude permeating through the receiver room and the rest of the offense was not something I expected. In a short period of time, he’s become much more meaningful to this team than just a quality slot receiver. That is as surprising, if …

Texas HC Steve Sarkisian is speaking with the media this morning to wrap up the 2nd scrimmage of the spring. We are 12 days away from opening kickoff and the buzz around DKR is noticeable. notes and quotes is the comments below! View full news story

Just a small note here. Baxter is scheduled to undergo surgery this Tuesday with Dallas surgeron Dan Cooper. Cooper is the surgeon for the Dallas Cowboys and specializes in knee ligaments. View full news story