Monday Morning Recruiting Nuggets
Spring practice for Texas is officially less than a month away. While the Longhorns on the field will be the focus in March and April, the staff is beginning to make a push to get top targets in 2025 back on campus around spring practices and the spring game.
The visitor lists are beginning to build with many of the top targets yet to finalize plans or release their spring visit dates.
With that said, it’s time to start your Monday morning off with some OnTexasFootball recruiting notes and nuggets.
Elijah Barnes and Texas
OnTexasFootball continues to feel good about where the Longhorns sit with the Dallas (Texas) Skyline linebacker.
Barnes, 6-2 and nearing 230 pounds, has a March 22 visit planned to Ohio State. He’s also looking at March/April visits to Texas, Oklahoma, LSU and possibly Texas A&M.
Nebraska and Oregon are potential June OV’s, along with Texas for sure. The Longhorns June visit weekend hasn’t been locked down. Look for the last weekend in June to be that date targeted by the staff.
On the Texas side, it’s both Johnny Nansen and Jeff Banks that the DFW area star communicates with.
“We haven’t really gotten into that (June OV date) yet,” Barnes told OnTexasFootball Sunday. “I will be back in April.”
Barnes is on the track for this spring for Skyline High competing in the 4x100, 4x200 and open 100 meter. Barnes sports a 77-inch wingspan and 9.5 inch hands.
Jacorey Watson spring visits
The Shadow Creek High 2025 wide receiver has four schools he plans to visit in the spring.
“I’m going to get to Texas A&M, Texas and LSU again and probably Missouri,” Watson told OnTexasFootball.
Watson, 6-1 and near 180, has been in communication with receiver’s coach Chris Jackson within the last week.
“We chopped it up a little bit last week. He wants to see me in the spring (spring practice) at receiver. He’s never really seen me play receiver since I played QB last season, He said he can’t wait to see me play receiver (in person).”
Watson is scheduled to be fully released in the next couple of weeks after a foot injury mid-way through the 2023 season, and surgery that followed. He will not participate in track this season, but instead focus on spring football.
Watson has one tentative official visit set up in June as well. He’s scheduled to make an OV down the road to Houston June 14-16.
April visits scheduled
April 6:
John Mills, IOL, San Francisco (Calif.) St. Ignatius
Attended Texas Junior Day January 20, and will make official visit June 14-16. The April trip will be his fourth since June of 2023. Michigan and Washington are the main competition right now.
April 13-14:
Major Preston, CB/DB, Hopewell (Va.) IMG Academy
Texas offered January 30. Blake Gideon is in consistent communication.
Spring Game April 20:
Michael Terry, ATH, San Antonio (Texas) Alamo Heights
Texas, TCU and Texas Tech the top 3 currently.
Rickey Stewart, RB, Tyler (Texas) Chapel Hill
Texas leads large over Baylor, SMU and Oklahoma State.
Gus Cordova, DL, Austin (Texas) Lake Travis
Texas, Texas A&M and Oregon the three talked about the most.
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