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I think if all the WR's have a good off-season with Arch, that should help. I also think if you can grab a proven guy in the portal who isn't a top tier guy like Coleman, for a good price, that would also help. It's more of a luxury than a need, imo. But we need a playmaker somewhere on O, Wingo was it sometimes but nowhere else really. Perhaps Bishop makes massive strides early on and gets playing time? Maybe one of the current Fr step up and contribute, who knows. LB is a whole other thing. With Lefau now gone, that leaves us in a bad spot, imo. Need to hit on the portal, unless they've been backdooring some guys.

Wish him all the best, that Miami OL is pretty bad, so he'll have his work cut out for him.

I have a hard time believing Florida of Sumrall are that stupid to pay this much for a back up QB. My guess is they would go at Mensah from Duke. He played for Sumrall and was at Tulane two years ago.

Also would like to add, if you push Spence back to LB, paired with Smith, that leaves more room for Jackson, Umeozulu and Vasek to contribute from the Edge and allows you to utilize Spence more in conjunction with Jackson and Simmons on the field. I do wonder if they want to move Spence back to LB full time or if they're content with him at Edge? He seems more like a natural fit at LB than he does Edge. Seems like him and Moore should've swapped roles this year. Anyway, be interesting to see what they do at S to pair with McDonald, assuming Filsaime.

I've said this elsewhere, but it appears that Sark isn't messing around when it comes to the portal or 2026. He's not wanting to make the mistakes he did last off-season. I respect that, hope they've been scouting guys or backdooring stuff. Would hate for them not to hit on guys in the portal, with a short window. I'm very curious to see what Texas does in the portal. Thanks for the great piece once again, Jeff.

Going to be hard to keep him, when their HC is in the playoffs and they have no position coach or anything lined up yet. Unless I'm not in the loop and he has been hiring staff at Florida while working on the playoffs at Tulane. Either way, I'd be stoked with Baugh or Lacy, both are amazing, imo.

Why would they promote from within? I guess back to 8 & 4 next year lol.

I'd say they'd want at least 3 guys with starting experience at G, C, G before they go looking at guys like Carter. We have a bunch of guys with no starting experience already. Would much rather grab some beef from the portal that has said experience first.

What are his run blocking #'s?

This to go with the 6'7 G posted beforehand. Some interesting guys to look at.

I think it depends on what Robertson does, but this guy would be an intriguing take for C. Then again I don't know anything about him. Lol.

If he had a better QB, he probably would've scored a few more TD's.

There's a few positions coaches that have been floating around in the Texas talking head sphere about who will be not returning for the 2026 season, Akina is one of those names that I've heard pop up quite a bit. Most think he'll hang it up, rather than get fired.

I think Moore is going to end up in the portal. With a year of more productivity could boost his draft stock. Depending on where he ends up. If Kanu, McDonald and Goosby come back for 2026, that would be absolutely amazing. Two of those 3 are 1st round picks if they do and the other could boost himself to a 2nd round pick with a great year. Wisner is a bit tricky, because there isn't a premium for RB's, but there is a small window of tread on the tire, so to speak. I'd 100% understand it if he decided to head to the NFL but would love to see him come back.

I don't see why, we want actual starting experience not a guy who's been a back up for 3 years. We already have those guys.

That's not what I remember hearing. Heard they have several NFL guys on that defense. You could be right though.

Not only start but dominate from the get go. You don't see that often with Fr OL. We also forget he wasn't an early enrollee and still won the starting job lol.

So what you're telling me is, Oregon will swoop in and take him off our hands? Gotcha.....lol. Jokes aside, would love to have this kid in the class. Lots of great upside for him.

I'm assuming a good chunk of their D will opt out, there's like 6 or 7 NFL players on that side, from what I remember.

The old Naruto quote, you gotta look underneath, the underneath.

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Did you know he's 18 now?

You can't get anymore elite than Lacy. Dude is an absolute stud. If they could pull that off...wow.

Gut feeling, he'll be back next year.

Just to be the one to say it, we're still not getting Baugh lol.