CJ Vogel

Hahaha I’ll leave this here

The concern is what 2027 looks like. But that’s a full portal cycle and year of development away. So not even worth worrying over.

Texas will continue to recruit the Kelvin Banks’ of the HS world.

Bear with me — as I type this out of my phone instead of laptop — but I have some thoughts on the offensive line. Of course, this comes on the heels of freshman Nick Brooks entering the portal Tuesday afternoon. Brooks becomes the fifth Longhorn offensive lineman to enter the portal in the 2026 portal window, joining Daniel Cruz, Connor Stroh, Nate Kibble and Neto Umeozulu. I tweeted this and mentioned it in the Portal Palace thread, but in the offseasons of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, Texas had just seven departures out of the offensive line room to the portal. So all of this really comes as new ground for the Texas program. It’s just something that has not been experienced so far and as Texas continues its path down the roster cutting circuit, it makes sense to see this room start to lose some pieces. After all, offensive linemen are relatively expensive. But here is my point here — if the NFL parallels we have seen take place with the Texas roster continue in the offensive line room, it is more than realistic to expect the Longhorns to carry 10-12 offensive linemen in a given season. With where things sit currently, Texas has 12 offensive linemen on roster when you include Sikorski and the 2 early enrollees + Nicolas Robertson. In a given season, all you really need is eight. Both Sarkisian and Flood have mentioned that as the goal to find the top eight in spring and fall camp. While part of that is coach speak, the numbers back it up. *** 2022 • 7 offensive linemen played 100+ snaps 877 - Christian Jones 860 - Jake Majors 858 - Kelvin Banks 850 - Hayden Conner 781 - Cole Hutson 162 - Andrej Karic 129 - DJ Campbell 2023 • 8 played over 100 snaps, only 5 with 150+ 985 - Kelvin Banks 982 - Hayden Conner 908 - Jake Majors 907 - Christian Jones 868 - DJ Campbell 144 - Cole Hutson 126 - Cam Williams 124 - Connor Robertson 2024 • Depth was tested a bit more, with 7 playing over 300 snaps. No on else saw more than 81. 1067 - Hayden Conner 1042 - Jake Majors 975 - Cameron Williams 935 - Kelvin Banks 809 - DJ Campbell 389 - Cole Hutson 319 - Trevor Goosby 2025 • Even with as rocky this offensive line season was, only seven players saw more than 100 snaps. 873 - Brandon Baker 847 - Trevor Goosby 831 - DJ Campbell 645 - Cole Hutson 557 - Connor Robertson 310 - Connor Stroh 221 - Nick Brooks *** All of this to prove the point of this — We are seeing Texas concisely construct a roster with as few fish as necessary. But making sure those fish are the biggest in the pond. I bet Texas carries 10-12 offensive linemen from here on out, with the top 7, maybe top 8, being Ready for Play type of guys. Trevor Goosby, Connor Robertson, Brandon Baker, Dylan Sikorski. There are four of the 7-8. Add in an older Cojoe + Chatman as serviceable options as well. Now, who else joins the pond, and how big of fish are they? Thats the vision on my end.

Texas is up to 5 offensive line portal departures in 2026. Over the past four off seasons, ranging from 2022-25, the Texas OL room saw just 7 offensive line departures.

Realistically, all you need is 8-9 OL for a season. It’s the spring and fall camps when you need 12+

We’ll see. They may have other plans for OL

We should know the drill by now. Name enters, Texas pushes in the portal for big fish. Rinse and repeat.

And just like that..

Was not expecting Brooks to be a guy that portaled.

Seaton is not officially in the portal yet. Brunner is

Correct

Dead period means time to work!

😂😂

I think baker projects in the NFL as a guard.

Folks are looking at the dead period as the first time to get work done in the last two weeks. Can’t blame them

Without attaching names to the class, i thought this would be a good way to highlight how Texas has constructed its 2026 portal class so far. This has been my favorite way to view the class, personally *** • 1st Team All-ACC running back • 1st Team All-Big 12 running back • No. 1 wide receiver in the portal • 1st Team All-ACC linebacker • All-B1G Honorable Mention cornerback • No. 4 ranked receiving TE per PFF grades in 2025 (86.4 grade) • Redshirt freshman OG with 440+ snaps • Third year contributor at LB with 730+ snaps • 380-pound nose tackle with 680+ career snaps • 360-pound nose tackle with four years of eligibility remaining • Plus, veterans at every specialist position already knocked out.

That’d be a good home for Deandre.

Quite the contrary

Former OK State EDGE Wendell Gregory signs with Kansas State.

Uluave to BYU. Good, strong get for BYU

He may be in luck!

If he gains 30 pounds

We’ll have to see. Recruitments can change on a phone call these days.