Ace_Rothstein

Yep. That’s without even considering Orgobo and Wesley.

I think Townsend, Masunas, Winston, Shannon is fine to even good at TE. I think Simmons, Jackson, Zina, Vasek, and Spence is good for edge unless they move Spence to off-ball backer full time. Still think the edge room is fine and I don’t want them to disrupt the locker room there. Yes to more OL players. Yes to another LB.

Good player. I’ll take Arch Manning though and it’s not close.

We would be in big trouble if Wisner was slated to be our lead back and Parker was slated to be our WR2. Raleek Brown is a clear upgrade over Wisner. TBD on if we upgrade over Parker, but I would like to think Mosely is already better than Parker and that Kaliq Lockett is likely to be better than Parker.

His 7.5 game stretch before season ending injury in 04 was shaping up to be his best season ever too. He was at almost 900 rushing yards and 14 rushing tds in half a season. He was on pace to finish with like 2300 total yards and about 30ish tds that year.

Agree overall except we will need to account for Andrew Marsh at WR. He’s legit.

I mean, that’s kind of the issue. As much as we love Tre, not sure he is a starting caliber back for a team with deep CFP run/natty aspirations. We really need a hammer that can get there in short yardage plus a homerun hitter that can house it from anywhere on the field. Texas has no RBs that fits the description on either of those criteria.

Haynes is a dude. I follow the draft pretty closely for offensive players because I am a dynasty fantasy football degenerate that plays in like 7 leagues.

I could be thinking about it in relative terms compared to last year. I don’t think they have a bunch of Day 1 and Day 2 picks on that defense that are draft eligible.

I think that was last year. They don’t have a ton of top tier defensive talent this draft cycle.

Traits. He has requisite athleticism to stick outside at corner in the NFL and he has good length but he isn’t all that fast and probably not as fluid as you would like him to be at corner. He is a little light and the ball skills are lacking. But he does have the plus length, physicality and instincts.

They just re-signed Waymond Jordan who was leading the Big 10 and nation in a lot of rushing metrics before going down with an injury in the middle of the season. Say what you want about Lincoln Riley, but Bowden was a hell of a GM hire and the team is much improved and they are starting to recruit like USC did from 2001-2019 again.

He has for sure added weight and while Texas needs a power back to turn out tough yards, I think the lack of a home run threat that can erase angles and take advantage of smaller creases was the main deficiency in the run game. Lacy houses at least 2 of those big runs Wisner had against A&M.

Nick Marsh is very redundant to what we already have at WR. We could use a 3 level separator type. If we just want another outside guy to go up and get contested catches along the sideline, why not develop Lockett and retain Mosely, Terry and Livingstone. I get that Nick Marsh is already in the portal and he is definitely a good player (future NFL guy), but having 4 guys that are 6’2” 200+ that all operate in the same parts of the field on the same type of routes/concepts don’t make our offense function better.

Brown would be interesting and probably cheaper. I also will be intrigued by Michael Terry switching to RB full time if they give him some real opportunity there in the bowl game against Michigan. I just think you go all in and do the 2024 Ohio State offense and pay up if you have to. If guys like Andrew Marsh, Cam Coleman, Jadan Baugh and Kewan Lacy all end up in the portal, you go get 2-3 of them and try to retain Wingo + at least 1 of Livingstone and Mosely. Add in guys like Lockett, Bishop, and Cooper (younger guys) and you have no excuse as long as that interior OL is also taken care of via portal and development. I don’t want the staff to assume the RB room and WR room is “good enough”. Go bet the sure things.