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UPDATE: Wednesday AM Made a quick stop over at CE King High School, a familiar stop for anyone who has followed me for a bit. This was my second time this semester to stop by as well. King has some very intriguing young talent. Headlined by 2028 WR/RB Dillon Mitchell who ran 10.1 flat at the Texas Stare UIL track meet in April. 2028 DL Oswald Jacques threw shot 57’ and disc 163’ as a freshman as well. Both are nationally elite as a freshman. He stands 6’2”+ and 290 pounds. *** First stop this week is at Wacahachie High a bit south of Dallas. Plenty of talent, headlined by 2026 WR Kohen Brown, who just decomitted from USC. 2027 QB Jerry Meyer III is a really interesting quarterback prospect to keep tabs on. Texas visited a week ago and is set to return on Thursday for one final look. 2027 DB JayQuan Snell is a huge DB prospect next cycle. He reminds me a ton of Jelani McDonald from a physicality and measurables perspective. He visited in early April.

2026 University Lab (La.) OT/DL Lamar Brown teased a trip to Austin Thursday evening on Twitter. Brown is considered a consensus five-star prospect and the No. 1 player in the state of Louisiana. I mention both lines of scrimmage above because early on in Brown's recruitment, there was a mix of both sides early on in his recruitment. I would expect him to be an offensive lineman on the interior at the next level. I spoke with Brown around this time last year where he said he would have plenty of interest in visiting the Longhorns, but did not have anything in place to make the trip a reality. Since then, Brown has not visited Texas. But, LaAllen Clark did stop by University Lab this afternoon, a part of his recruiting territory, and thus the tweet was sent by Brown. Brown's Official Visits: May 30 – Miami June 6 – Florida State June 13 – Texas A&M June 20 – LSU

Texas RB Coach Chad Scott had an in-home visit Monday night with Chaminade Madonna College Prep 2026 RB Derrek Cooper. The Longhorns are starting to really make things interesting with the former Georgia commit.

Texas corners coach Mark Orphey extended an offer late Monday evening to 2026 Louisville cornerback commit Jaydin Broadnax. The 6-foot-2.5-inch cornerback out of Boca Raton, Florida has been committed to Louisville since March 8. According to the consensus rankings, he is a top-30 cornerback in the country. Broadnax is up to 40 offers in his recruitment after the Horns officially jumped into the race Monday evening. Broadnax currently has four official visits set up for the month of June: OVs: May 30 – Auburn June 6 – Syracuse June 13 – Maryland June 20 – Louisville

2027 RB Tranard Roberts Reports Texas Offer Chad Scott and the Texas Longhorns have extended an offer to 2027 IMG Academy RB Tranard Roberts as of Tuesday evening. Roberts also reported offers from Wofford, Sacramento State and South Carolina all in the span of about 15 minutes. Roberts is ranked as a top-100 player in the country and the No. 6 running back in the country per the Composite. Notable Offers: Arkansas Auburn Colorado Florida Florida State Louisiville Michigan South Carolina Tennessee Texas Washington

Texas makes the final four for 2026 Hough (N.C.) CB Samari Matthews. Joining the Longhorns is Clemson, South Carolina and Florida State. Matthews had a great 4-day visit with his parents in April where he was able to take in a Saturday scrimmage and a Monday practice. Longhorns are trending here.

The next step for the historic group of Longhorns who accounted for a school-record 12 picks in the 2024 NFL Draft is coming to terms on their rookie contracts. Six of the 12 rookies were signed, sealed and delivered to their respective franchises as of Sunday. Gunnar Helm was the most recent Texas draftee to sign, agreeing to terms with the Tennessee Titans, although the terms of the fourth-round pick’s (No. 120 overall) deal have yet to be made public. With that said, the following are the reported terms for which the other five former Longhorns have signed. Kelvin Banks Jr., New Orleans Saints (Round 1, No. 9 overall pick): Banks, Jahdae Barron and Matthew Golden stand to make more money than the reported figures if their fifth-year options are picked up. Banks signed a four-year deal with a signing bonus of more than $6.93 million, but the total value of his contract ($27.7 million) is fully guaranteed. Barryn Sorrell, Green Bay Packers (Round 4, No. 124 overall pick): Sorrell’s four-year, $5.14 million deal includes a signing bonus of $941,852. The signing bonus is the only portion of Sorrell’s contract guaranteed to be paid out. Jaydon Blue, Dallas Cowboys (Round 5, No. 149 overall pick): Blue’s deal is for four years with a total value of $4.63 million. His signing bonus ($427,068) is the only guaranteed portion of the contract. Hayden Conner, Arizona Cardinals (Round 6, No. 211 overall pick): Conner’s signing bonus ($174,280) is the only guaranteed money headed his way on the four-year, $4.37 million deal he signed. Quinn Ewers, Miami Dolphins (Round 7, No. 231 overall pick): Ewers signed a four-year deal worth $4.33 million. The only guaranteed money Ewers has coming to him is his signing bonus ($131,576). The five Texas products have signed NFL rookie contracts worth $46,206,022. Of that money, $27,406,022 is fully guaranteed, with $8,607,588 in signing bonuses. The projected contract values based on the rookie wage scale, which changes every year based on the salary cap increasing or decreasing, aren’t far off from the money for which the remaining draftees will sign. The biggest issues preventing rookie contracts from getting done include language (some teams will look to put various classes in the contract that protect them from shelling out money they don’t believe they should be on the hook for) and when certain portions of the guaranteed money will be paid out. According to Spotrac, the following dollar figures are the total value of the contracts that the seven (including Helm) remaining Longhorns are projected to earn: Jahdae Barron, Denver Broncos (Round 1, No. 20 overall pick): $18,048,198 Matthew Golden, Green Bay Packers (Round 1, No. 23 overall pick): $17,551,274 Alfred Collins, San Francisco 49ers (Round 2, No. 43 overall pick): $10,296,326 Andrew Mukuba Philadelphia Eagles (Round 2, No. 64 overall pick): $7,155,826 Vernon Broughton, New Orleans Saints (Round 3, No. 71 overall pick): $6,634,052 Gunnar Helm, Tennessee Titans (Round 4, No. 120 overall pick): $5,171,100 Cameron Williams, Philadelphia Eagles (Round 6, No. 207 overall pick): $4,401,198 When the remaining unsigned contracts are official, the Texas draft class will be worth an estimated $115,463,996. View full news story

UPDATE: Friday (Noon) First stop is over in Fort Worth at Crowley High for their college testing day. Home to 2027 elite WR Antayvious Ellis and 27 OL Alexander Herrera — both visited in the spring. Ellis holds an offer. (Thursday 12:00 p.m.) OTF is at North Crowley High School for a Thursday practice to see 5-star OT John Turntine III in action *** OTF is on hand for a Tuesday afternoon practice at Temple High. Checking in on the status of 2026 EDGE Jamarion Carlton and whether or not an official visit has been scheduled for the month of June. Carlton visited Austin for the second scrimmage of the spring but arrived for the backend of the recruiting afternoon. Also at Temple is 2026 Oklahoma State DB commit Jason Bradford. Texas nickels coach Keynodo Hudson stopped by last week to check on both prospects.

Barryn Sorrell’s mind was grasping how close Texas had come to a berth in the College Football Playoff National Championship while simultaneously processing the end of his Longhorn career when he reflected on the four seasons he spent in burnt orange. Experiencing a whirlwind of emotions after the 2024 season ended with a heartbreaking 28-14 Cotton Bowl loss to Ohio State, Sorrell’s response to a loaded question — if coming to Texas was everything he thought it would be — was detailed and purposeful. It appropriately summed up the four-year odyssey of the Longhorns’ recruiting class from the 2021 cycle. “It's just been a journey,” Sorrell said from within the bowels of AT&T Stadium. "There's so many great memories that I'll always have and I'm thankful for it. I'm just so blessed and happy to realize that walking away from this, I'm leaving it better than I found it.” Along with helping Texas improve from a 5-7 record in Steve Sarkisian’s first season to a team that won at a championship-caliber clip, including a Big 12 title, a berth in the SEC Championship and consecutive trips to the CFP semifinals, Sorrell was one of seven draft picks to emerge from a transition class. Of the 22 signees in the cycle, 20 committed to former coach Tom Herman’s staff. Sorrell was among the 19 recruits who signed with Texas before Herman was fired and replaced by Sarkisian on Jan. 2, 2021. Unlike his predecessors, Sarkisian didn’t go scorched earth when assessing what he inherited from the previous regime. Sarkisian’s organization carefully examined the cupboard, eventually learning the Longhorns had a group of newcomers long on football character and strong developmental traits. Sorrell was among the young Texas players who bought into Sarkisian’s vision from the jump, which laid the foundation of the juggernaut the current regime has built. “We got along from Day 1,” Sorrell said of his relationship with Sarkisian. “He wanted to win. I'd seen that from the first meeting. Throughout the first year, hearing what he was saying and guys not really picking it up, I wanted to put those things in place. I feel like that’s what I’ve done and that’s what we’ve done and it’s why we are where we are.” One of the first declarations Sarkisian made in his introductory press conference was that he wanted to oversee a program capable of developing talent at an elite level. Xavier Worthy is the first recruit Sarkisian plucked from the high school ranks who went on to become an NFL draft pick. With that said, the Longhorns won 25 games over the last two seasons because the Sarkisian regime did a magnificent job developing the players they inherited. A fourth-round selection by the Green Bay Packers in last month’s draft, Sorrell’s recruiting class features two first-rounders (Worthy and Byron Murphy II), one second-round pick (Jonathon Brooks), three fourth-rounders (Sorrell, Ja’Tavion Sanders and Gunnar Helm) and one player drafted in the sixth round (Hayden Conner). While Worthy and Sanders were regarded as top-100 prospects by the recruiting industry, the same can’t be said for the rest of the class: Brooks and Murphy were unranked four-star prospects in the 247Sports Composite, and Conner snuck into the top 300 of the On3 Industry rankings, but 247Sports and On3 had Helm and Sorrell among the five lowest-rated non-specialists in the class. Along with the seven draft picks, two 2021 signees (Morice Blackwell Jr. and Juan Davis) completed their eligibility at Texas without entering the NCAA transfer portal. Charles Wright and Max Merril stayed in the program for multiple seasons and Casey Cain was a contributor on offense before transferring to UNLV. Sarkisian and company just assembled the No. 1 recruiting class in the country in the 2025 cycle, the most recent roster additions poised to help the Longhorns remain championship contenders for the foreseeable future. Texas will continue to recruit at an elite level and has a lot of unfinished business under Sarkisian, meaning the accomplishments of the 2021 class could eventually pale in comparison to future hauls. Nevertheless, there might not be a recruiting class more important to Sarkisian’s recent and future success than the group that’s been there every step of the way. “I came here and the culture was different,” said Sorrell, who added that there were “a lot of ups and downs” throughout his four seasons in the program. “I just focused on, 'How can I get better? How can I impact this team?' I feel like I've done that at a good level to get us to this point. Now, it's [time] for the guys behind me to take my lessons and things that I tried to teach the guys in my room and throughout this team, and, hopefully, they can exceed the standard that we set.” View full news story

The Texas staff answered a lot of questions about the 2025 roster in the spring. Several impactful transfer portal additions were made at key positions – both specialist positions, wide receiver, tight end, line backer, defensive line x5 and even quarterback. With those moves, the Texas roster holds depth at just about every position on the field. But one position remains answerless – the return game. In the spring, there were a few names that popped up immediately on day one: Aaron Butler, Daylan McCutcheon and Ryan Wingo. Though, as the spring continued, more options started to arise. By the end of the 15 practices, OTF had heard the names of Ryan Niblett and Warren Roberson on the defensive side of the ball getting looks. As well as Jaime Ffrench joining the race as well. Of course we need to mention DeAndre Moore who was sidelined in the spring with a toe injury, as well as new Stanford WR transfer Emmett Mosley V. In 2024, only Silas Bolden recorded a return in the punt game, while Matthew Golden held all but one of the kickoff returns, the other going to Bolden as well. I don't think it is beyond having your best WR at the position of returnman if the payoff is worth the risk. Xavier Worthy in 2023 was one of the country's best at fielding punts and though the kickoff return game never quite materialized last fall, Texas never wavered on having Golden back deep. So, with the position seemingly up in the air, call your shot on who you would like to see at both kickoff and punt return in 2025. *** My best guess is this: Kickoff – DeAndre Moore Punt – Ryan Niblett or Emmett Mosley

Stopped by Georgetown East View this AM to check on 4-star LB Tieson Ejiakowo. Ejiakowo had successful meniscus surgery on Monday and has been sidelined this spring. I was told Texas has yet to make a trip through East View this spring. Johnny Nansen did stop by in January but so far no visit from anyone on the staff in the spring.

Texas has offered 2027 EDGE Ricardo Parker out of Pratville High School in Alabama. The Longhorns become the first SEC offer for Parker and just the second offer overall after Troy offered back in January. Parker is listed at 6-foot-3-inches and 290 pounds currently. The Texas staff remains on the road this week.

Wanted to create a thread to keep a tally on portal entrants ahead of the Portal officially opening on April 16. Just some names that have entered that either had Texas ties previously, or would make sense given what we know about the ensuing hunt in the portal to fill the 2025 roster.

Hearing the trip to New Orleans for Arch and some of the receivers might be cancelled. New Orleans just had three inches of rain and it’s not looking better the rest of this week.

Texas has offered 2027 Basha (Ariz.) RB Noah Roberts Monday evening. Roberts, a 6-foot-1-inch, 190-pound running back is currently ranked as the No. 32 overall prospect and the No. 4 running back in the country per the 247Sports Composite. Roberts holds a 10.81 100m time as well at north of 6-feet, very solid combination. Notable Offer List: Alabama Colorado Florida State Miami Michigan Nebraska Notre Dame Ohio State Oklahoma Penn State Tennessee Texas Texas A&M USC Washington

I tell ya, I never enjoy the drive from Austin to San Antonio down i35. I never do. But, the trip was made once again this morning so I could go check out Cibolo Steele HS during one of their spring practices. The objective of the trip was to go check on 2027 DB Eli Johnson and where the Longhorns sat in that recruitment. Johnson, a 6-foot-3-inch defensive back has been one of the quickest risers in the next class of defensive backs. He recently clocked a 4.49 40-yard dash at the Under Armour Elite Series camp in April. Texas nickels coach Keynodo Hudson stopped by Steele Friday morning to get a look at Johnson and the rest of the roster. Today, coaches from Oklahoma State and TCU were in attendance as well. The Longhorns have yet to extend an offer, but one coming in the near future would not be too surprising. The Steele staff raved about Johnson and of course the comparison to former Longhorn Caden Sterns was made. Right now, Texas is keeping tabs on the 2027 prospect. Eli Johnson Offer List: Baylor Cal Florida State Minnesota North Texas Oklahoma Oregon State Pitt Purdue TCU UNLV UTEP UTSA

New Texas WR offer Aljour Miles update OnTexasFootball spoke with a source close to the recruitment of Kaufman (Texas) High fast rising 2026 WR Aljour Miles. Some key notes picked up … 1. The Texas offer is legit. Chris Jackson has had conversations with the family about locking in a June OV. 2. Miles and family are very open to adjusting the June OV schedule to ensure Texas is one of those weekend visits. 3. Miles is scheduled to OV to SMU this weekend. The June OV schedule currently has Texas Tech June 6-8, USC June 13-15 and Oklahoma June 20-22. 4. Miles and Kaydon Finley are the top in-state outside receivers on the board after a week of evals.

Texas picks up a specialist commitment from 2026 Prestonwood Christian Academy long snapper Trot O’Neal. Jeff Banks stopped by in the DFW area earlier this week and ended up offering O’Neal on Thursday. Alas, the Longhorns have their next long snapper.

4-star++ DL Damari Simeon locks in Texas OV OnTexasFootball was told by a source in the Garden State that 4-star++ defensive lineman Damari Simeon (Richland, N.J./St. Augustine) has locked in a June OV to Texas. The 6-foot-2.5, 289-pound disruptor is scheduled to make a return visit to Texas June 13-15, but that could also push back to June 20-22. Texas hosted Simeon April 12 for the first time, and OTF has heard from multiple sources Simeon absolutely loved the visit and first meeting with Kenny Baker. Texas, Tennessee, Penn State, Ohio State, Auburn, Texas A&M and Rutgers are the programs to know in the recruitment, as of today.

Arch Manning wasn’t among the 13 quarterbacks selected in the 2025 NFL Draft. Nevertheless, the rising redshirt sophomore poised to lead a Texas team with national championship aspirations was mentioned as much as the baker’s dozen who were picked over the draft’s seven rounds, as the potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 draft. Monday’s Touchdown Club of Houston luncheon wasn’t the first time Steve Sarkisian has been asked about Manning’s future on the Forty Acres. Still, the question wasn’t about Manning handling being the Longhorns’ backup quarterback. Instead, Sarkisian was asked during a fan Q&A at the Bayou City Event Center if he had “a sense whether” Manning would be at Texas one year or two years, since he’s eligible to enter next year’s draft. “Here’s what I hope,” Sarkisian said as nervous laughter broke out throughout the room. “I hope he's got a really hard decision to make on — about Jan. 21. That means he played a long time, that means he probably had a really good season, and that means that he's trying to figure out, 'Do I want one more year in the burnt orange? Or is it time to go to the NFL?' “I hope it's a really, really hard decision,” he added. “I hope it's not a no-brainer to come back to school.” The discussion of Manning becoming the third No. 1 overall pick in his family (Peyton Manning in 1998 and Eli Manning in 2004) after one season as QB1 for the Longhorns is acceptable post-spring practice fodder. Any prolonged draft speculation falls somewhere on a relevance spectrum between writers, reporters, and publishers openly pining for Manning to be the quarterback of the future for the team they cover and content mills farming for clicks. The expectation has long been for Manning to spend at least two seasons at the wheel of Sarkisian’s offense. Regardless, it would be a surprise if Sarkisian isn’t asked about the length of Manning’s stay in Austin several times before Texas opens the 2025 season on the road in a Cotton Bowl rematch with reigning national champion Ohio State on Aug. 30. Longhorn fans are fortunate to follow a football program covered by media outlets (OTF among them) wise enough to avoid giving in to the temptation to drive pointless narratives involving the 6-foot-4-inch, 222-pound quarterback with the potential to help Texas secure the program’s first national title since 2005. The same goes for ESPN’s Matt Miller and NFL.com's Lance Zierlein, who did their respective parts to stamp out the idea that Manning is destined to headline the 2026 draft. “I won’t be doing any draft work on Arch for 2026,” Miller wrote. “He’s probably a 2027 player. He could be a 2028 player.” Zierlein pointed out two notable facts: Peyton and Eli Manning "both played four years of college ball,” he wrote, and Arch Manning has the earning potential through NIL deals to put off the NFL until he and his family decide it's time to go. “Why do people think Arch is going to be in the 2026 draft?” he wrote. The circus might slow down, but it won’t stop. For Texas fans already tired of opposing fans and the football media anxiously awaiting Manning’s departure, heeding Sarkisian’s advice should help maintain everyone’s sanity and enjoy what could be an unprecedented era of Longhorn football. “Let’s let this guy go play this year,” Sarkisian said. “Let's let him have fun, finally getting his opportunity to be the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. It's been a lifelong dream for this guy to do this. “It's finally his time,” he added. “I hope he can just have an opportunity to enjoy it and enjoy it the right way because, like a lot of guys from our team, he's been dreaming about this his whole life, and now he gets an opportunity to go do it. “I just want to make sure that we all support him in this journey.” View full news story

Wanted to give you all a chance to get some final spring ball questions off before we move into the heart of recruiting on the 2025 calendar. 15 spring practices have come and gone and we have a pretty good understanding of what took place this spring. Drop any and all questions you may have regarding the spring roster and practice sessions! Will try to get to them all!

Wanted to get a quick thread up to follow where Texas coaches were at on the recruiting trail this week. Spring ball has officially concluded and the coaches have taken to the road to catch prospects from across the state.