Jeff Howe

You can get Arch cards in Panini products right now. He's in Prizm Draft Picks and National Treasures Collegiate, for sure.

There's nothing egregious, in my opinion, but it's fascinating how much things differ once you get outside of the top 100. Like KJ Lacey and Zelus Hicks being top 120 guys in one set of rankings and unranked four-star prospects in another. What I've learned over the years is that once you get to a certain point either with player rankings or a signing class, beauty is in the eye on the beholder. If you think about the Top247, for instance, your 32 five-star guys are like first-round picks, No. 36-100 are guys who would go rounds 2-3 and then 101 until the end are guys who would go in rounds 4-7. Depending on things like player development and scheme fit, No. 247 could turn out to be a much better college player/NFL prospect than No. 101. I don't know if that makes sense, but that's how I've tried to view things over the years.

Tevin Jackson was on his way to being a good player until he injured his knee.

He was said to be in the mix for the Ohio State DC job:

I think a lot about that 2010 class that had 20 Top247 members go to Texas. That class was ravaged by injuries. Jordan Hicks was the only draft pick, but Hicks, Jackson Jeffcoat (CFL), Trey Hopkins and Adrian Phillips played a lot of pro football. Mike Davis, Carrington Byndom and John Harris turned out to be productive college players (even though Harris' work was done pretty much in one season).

Josiah Sharma should've been in the ESPN 300.

With the Under Armour All-America Game and the Navy All-American Bowl complete, 247Sports and ESPN published their final player rankings for the 2025 cycle on Wednesday. — After the release of the Top247 for 2025 and the ESPN300, Texas still has the No. 1 recruiting class in the country according to the 247Sports Composite and the On3 Industry rankings. There were some noticeable moves in the final rankings from two of the four major sets of prospect rankings (On3 hasn’t released its final rankings while the final Rivals250 was published last week) regarding the historic haul assembled by Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns. — Texas had 15 signees ranked in the Top247, the most since 2010 when Mack Brown's staff landed 20 Top247 recruits. The same goes for the ESPN 300, which included 18 Longhorns, a total topped in recent classes only by 19 in 2018. — Cornerback Kade Phillips highlighted the Top247, finishing the cycle among the 32 five-star prospects in the class. The 6-foot and a 1/2-inch, 185-pounder with a personal best long jump of 24 feet 7 1/2 inches had his wing span measured at 6 feet 8 inches in San Antonio. Phillips is No. 23 overall in the Top247, joining safety Jonah Williams (No. 6), defensive lineman Justus Terry (No. 13) and wide receiver Kaliq Lockett (No. 21) as five-star prospects. — Along with the four five-star signees, the Texas class has 10 recruits ranked inside the top 100 in the Top247: defensive lineman Lance Jackson (No. 39), wide receiver Jaime Ffrench (No. 52), tight end Nick Townsend (No. 74), linebacker Bo Barnes (No. 78), cornerback Graceson Littleton (No. 81) and Michael Terry III (No. 85). —Justus Terry and Williams finished the cycle as two of 21 prospects ESPN ranked as a five-star recruit. Terry (8) and Williams (No. 9) were ranked among ESPN’s top 10 prospects. — The ESPN 300 included nine Longhorn signees among its top 100 prospects: Ffrench (No. 26), Lockett (No. 30), Michael Terry III (No. 31), Phillips (No. 33), Jackson (No. 67), Barnes (No. 84) and Littleton (No. 98). Townsend was ranked No. 125 in the ESPN 300. — The Top247 reflects the strength of the interior defensive line class for Texas. With Myron Charles (No. 138) and Josiah Sharma (No. 214) making the final Top247, the Longhorns are one of three programs along with Auburn and Georgia to land three Top247 defensive tackles in 2025 (Nos. 3, 17 and 24 at the position with Justus Terry, Charles and Sharma). — On the edge, Jackson and Smith Orogbo (No. 157) made Texas one of five programs (Georgia, Miami, Missouri and Ohio State are the others) to sign multiple Top247 edge defenders. — With Daylon McCutcheon (No. 190 in the Top247) joining Lockett and Ffrench in the final rankings, the Longhorns and Missouri were the only two programs to land three Top247 wideouts in 2025. 247Sports ranked Townsend as the No. 6 tight end in the class with Michael Terry III, expected to be a multi-purpose offensive player for Texas, ending the cycle as the nation’s No. 2-ranked athlete. — Running back James Simon (No. 198) is the other Longhorn signee who made the Top247. Orogbo (No. 105), safety Zelus Hicks (No. 114), quarterback KJ Lacey (No. 115), offensive lineman Nick Brooks (No. 142), McCutcheon (No. 147) Charles (No. 182), Simon (No. 298) and running back Rickey Stewart (No. 300) rounded out the ESPN 300 recruits in the Texas class. — ESPN ranked the following signees among the top prospects at their position in the class: Williams (No. 1 safety), Michael Terry III (No. 1 athlete), Justus Terry (No. 2 DT), Ffrench (No. 2 WR), Lockett (No. 3 WR), Townsend (No. 4 TE), Phillips (No. 6 CB), Jackson (No. 7 DE), Barnes (No. 10 OLB), Lacey (No. 10 pocket QB), Orogbo (No. 11 DE) and Hicks (No. 11 safety). View full news story

McEndoo has a few different ties to the staff. He played with Jeff Banks and Chris Jackson at Washington State and worked with PK at Montana State. Hiring McEndoo is part of Sark’s answer to making up for the loss of Gunnar Helm. Instead of trying to outright replace Helm with another player, Jordan Washington and Nick Townsend could both function more like how Oklahoma State used its Cowboy Backs. I also like what this could mean for the Pony (two-back) package, just in terms of seeing more of it in 2025.

That’s in addition to some likely attrition coming after spring practice.

Thank you for the kind words, longhorn12345. I talked to Matt last week. The plan has been for me to get settled in here and the three of us will talk at some point. It's possible, but that's where things stand right now.

The Senior Bowl was made for a guy like Sorrell. If he shows he can rush the passer, it’ll bump his stock. Playmaking potential at a premium position gets you drafted, plus he’s played a lot of high-level football against elite competition in his college career.

Guys usually do one of two things: sit the season out and come back in the fall or go JUCO.

For those who didn’t catch the news, Mark Bowman reclassified today from the 2027 to the 2026 class and he’s expected to be the No. 1 tight end in the rising senior class. On Texas Football expects Bowman’s decision to come down to either Texas or Georgia. Obviously, this is a massive recruitment for the Longhorns.

What a massive win for the Longhorns and Rodney Terry.

The Clemson game. Give me more on-campus CFP games.

Barron to the Colts makes sense because Chris Ballard isn’t shy about taking a chance on Texas guys.

Daniel Jeremiah LOVES him some Matthew Golden.

Crowd came early. While we were outside Moncrief for Junior Day stuff, it looked like a good crowd was getting ready to file into Moody.

Yes, it’s a 40-man limit. Next year, it goes down to 34.