Gerry Hamilton

Let's start with this ... don't forget Valentines Day!!! Or Coffee & Football at 8:10 a.m. CST on the YouTube channel! Now some Wednesday morning recruiting nuggets and notes: Texas known or expected visitors in March and April (list will grow a lot) March 22-24 7v7 tournament in the Austin area: Brandon Brown, DL, Melbourne (Fla.) Eau Gallie #AllGasNoBrakes Will make a first visit to Texas while in town for 7v7 with California Power program/team. Members the Texas Nightrydas team that are expected to stop and visit Texas while in the area for 7v7 tournament... Kiotti Armstrong, TE, Jasper (Texas) High - 2025 Texas and Texas A&M remain top 2 with Longhorns slightly trending. Javar Thomas, LB, Aldine (Texas) Nimitz - 2025 Texas offered February 2. Kosi Okpala, LB, Houston (Texas) Mayde Creek - 2026 Texas offered January 22, and leads early. Mayde Creek defensive coordinator is former Texas National Campion linebacker Rashad Bobino. Tai'Yion King, LB, Port Arthur (Texas) Memorial - 2026 Has 14 offers with Texas A&M standing out early on. Noriel Dominguez, LB, Missouri City (Texas) Fort Bend Marshall - 2026 Has 14 offers. Will visit Oklahoma March 9. Grant Smith, QB, Spring (Texas) Grand Oaks - 2026 Texas QB coach A.J. Milwee is watching Smith throw in person during spring evaluation period. March 16-17: Peter Langi, IOL, San Francisco (Calif.) Archbishop Rirordan - 2025 May reschedule for when team is practicing. This is spring break weekend. 38 offers, including the Horns. Told OnTexasFootball they plan to visit in March or April, but don't have date yet: Kaliq Lockett, WR, Sachse (Texas) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star Steve Sarkisian and Chris Jackson visited Lockett in late January. Faheem Delane, S, Olney (Md.) Good Counsel OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star Delane is in contact with safeties coach Blake Gideon. 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, ATHM 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. Additional notes: Hastings (Texas) High 2025 EDGE Smith Orogbo told OnTexasFootball Tuesday evening he has not spoken with the Texas staff since being offered in January. He knows USC will be one June official visit. Texas A&M (spoken with Mike Elko and Jay Bateman) is another possibility. Didn't rule out spring visit to Texas. Spring (Texas) High 2025 defensive tackle Floyd Guidry (6-1, 285) is one prospect eyeing an April decision, barring a change. TCU will get a March visit on the 23rd. Texas, TCU, Houston and Texas Tech are talked about the most. Austin (Texas) Lake Travis defensive lineman Gus Cordova told OnTexasFootball Tuesday that he has spoke with new defensive line coach Kenny Baker since Baker was hired. Junior Day visits were made to Texas A&M, Texas and Oregon. LSU will have a big visit weekend March 9. Two top Texas targets scheduled to attend are Lufkin (Texas) High DL Zion Williams and Mansfield (Texas) Timberview DL Dilan Battle. Both are OnTexasFootball 4-star prospects. OnTexasFootball continues to believe Texas leads for Hitchcock (Texas) High WR and OnTexasFootball 4-star Kelshaun Johnson (5-11.5, 170). Texas A&M WR coach Holmon Wiggins did impress Johnson at Junior Day January 27. Two OV's are set: Penn State (May 31-June 2) and Texas Tech (June 8-10). Texas is likely June 28-30, but not locked in yet. Of note, Texas A&M is seriously recruiting teammate, good friend and 2025 Texas Tech QB commit Lloyd Jones (6-3, 210).