Current list of commits for the '17 class pre-'16 NSD:
QB - Sam Ehlinger, Westlake https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-Sam-Ehlinger-167381
WR - Damion Miller, John Tyler https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-Damion-Miller-169583
TE - Major Tennison, Bullard https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-Major-Tennison-175197
DE - LaGaryonn Carson, Texarkana https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-LaGaryonn-Carson-177823
Below is a breakdown of the early list of top players in the state of Texas on the offensive side of the ball, lusted by position based on four-star rankings from Rivals and the summer LSR list. Defensive side of the ball next week.
Quarterbacks
Sam Ehlinger (QB/Austin Westlake)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Three-stars/5.7/No.37 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.10)
Sophomore Highlights
Current status:Committed to Texas
Where UT Stands:One of the building blocks for what could be a national Top 5-10 class for the Longhorns.
Quotable"Been a Longhorn since day one, I'm truly blessed to say I am committed to the University of Texas."
Shawn Robinson (QB/Denton Guyer)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9 grade/No.7 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.2)
Sophomore Highlights
Current status:Committed to TCU
Where UT Stands:The original No.1 target at the quarterback position for the Longhorns, Robinson committed to TCU last summer and appears locked in on his decision, although it’s a long time until 2017’s National Signing Day. With the quarterback commitment merry-go-round already in motion, it’s likely that there won’t be much to see here as it relates to the Longhorns.
Quotable: "Coach Strong is a great coach. He needs time to make changes but I have seen how much it has worked in just one year. Last year’s product was not on him. He didn’t have a year of recruiting so I expect it to be different this year and moving forward.”
Chris Robison (QB/Mesquite Horn)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.11 in Texas), LSR Pre-season LSR (No.16)
Sophomore Highlights
Current status:Committed to Oklahoma
Where UT Stands:An early commitment for the Sooners last summer, neither the Longhorns nor Robison showed much interest in each other.
Ty Brock(QB/College Station)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.35 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.24)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Houston
Where UT Stands:Camped at Texas last summer, but he’s likely off the radar after missing almost all of his junior season with an injury. It’ll be interesting to see where his recruitment goes this year because he’s got a lot of raw skill, but it’s unproven and undeveloped.
Running backs
Eno Benjamin (Wylie East)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.34 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.44)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Boise State, Miami, Texas Tech, Houston, SMU, Tulsa and Vanderbilt
Where UT Stands:Although he currently lists IOwa as his favorite, his stock is just starting to take off and the Longhorns will likely be front and center in his recruitment if he becomes a key target.
Quotable
Not going to lie, I'm trying to get back down to UT & kick it with@Official_MalikJ
— Eno Benjamin™ (@eno_benjamin5)January 15, 2016
Toneil Carter (RB/Langham Creek)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.6 in Texas), Pre-season LSR
(No.7)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Alabama, Arkansas, Baylor, LSU, Oklahoma Tennessee, Texas and Texas A&M
Where UT Stands:The first 2017 in-state back to receive a Texas offer last spring, Carter is a Louisiana native and that might prove to be a tough safe to break into. At this point, he’s keeping a very open public profile.
Quotable:"Well I am from New Orleans, Louisiana so I grew up liking LSU. An offer would mean the world to me, that's my No. 1 school."
J.K. Dobbins (RB/La Grange)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.8 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.13)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Arkansas, Arizona State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Texas, TCU and Texas A&M
Where UT Stands:Once upon a time, the Longhorns were a leader with Dobbins and he was an early commitment candidate, but he’s taking a wait-and-see approach with the Longhorns at this point. If Sterlin Gilbert can solve the Texas offensive identity woes, look for the Longhorns to re-emerge as a key piece of his recruitment. Dobbins needs to be one of the first calls that the new running backs coach makes when he arrives on campus.
Quotable:(Via OB on 12/4) "I was riding high on Texas. After this season, of course - I'm the type of guy that wants to win. Losing makes me mad. Seeing them struggle ... I know they have some young people and I have a feeling Charlie Strong is going to bring them back up, but it has brought them back to the pack."
Wide receivers
Damion Miller(WR/John Tyler)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.23 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.23)
Junior Highlights
Current status:Committed to Texas
Where UT Stands:Miller became the first commitment in the 2017 class for the Longhorns earlier last summer and is a key foundation piece for the upcoming recruiting year.
Octavius Evans (Center)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.24 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.59)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Louisiana Tech and Texas Tech
Where UT Stands:One of the top players in East Texas this year, the stock for this Rivals national Top 250 prospect is just starting to take off. He’s in Jeff Traylor’s backyard, so keep an eye on this one.
Hezekiah Jones (WR/Stafford)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.13 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.20)
Junior Highlights
Current status:Committed to Baylor
Where UT Stands:The Longhorns appeared to be the early favorite to land Jones, but he shocked quite a few people when he committed to Art Briles last summer and at this time he seems fairly locked into his decision. .
Quotable:"I have already been there a few times, this was my third time to visit Baylor. My first visit was a basic tour of the facilities, the second visit we talked with the academic advisors and strength & conditioning coaches, but this visit I was able to do all of them at once and spend a lot more time around Coach (Art) Briles. I felt like this time was the right time to make my commitment because my family loves Baylor, my friends love Baylor and it's just a place that I can see myself living.
Jaylon Jackson (Cedar Hill)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.26 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.46)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Kansas, Oklahoma State, SMU and Texas Tech
Where UT Stands:Jackson missed the entire 2015 season while recovering from an ACL injury, but he really hasn’t been mentioned in connection with the Longhorns at this stage of his recruitment. Keep an eye on Oklahoma in his recruitment.
Cedarian Lamb (Richmond Foster)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.29 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.67)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Oklahoma
Where UT Stands:It’ll be interesting to see if the Longhorns expand interest in Lamb, but at the moment he’s all OU.
Omar Manning (Corsicana)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.18 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.74)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Arizona State., Colorado, Houston, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and UCLA
Where UT Stands:Texas isn’t really involved with Manning at this point and he currently lists a top three of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and UCLA. Consider it very early in his recruitment.
Quotable: “Right now I like Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and UCLA. They’re good programs. Oklahoma made it to the playoff this year. I’m close to the coaches at Oklahoma. At Oklahoma State it’s the same, I’m close to the coaches. And UCLA that was one of my favorites growing up.”
Mannie Netherly (Crosby)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.25 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.72)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Texas A&M
Where UT Stands:The Longhorns are one of the few schools from the state of Texas that hasn’t offered Netherly, who committed to the Aggies in November. Considering the state of that program right now, expect every school that has offered to make a hard attempt to poach him away.
Charleston Rambo (Cedar Hill)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.20 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.39)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Miami, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Washington, Tennessee and Houston
Where UT Stands:Another prospect that the Longhorns haven’t really engaged in high-level talks with yet, but you know the Longhorns are familiar with Cedar Hill, so they’ll take a long look at him this spring.
Tight Ends
Brock Wright (Cy Fair)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/6.0/No.3 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.28)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Notre Dame
Where UT Stands:The Longhorns were early to offer the state’s top tight end prospect, but the high four-star prospect committed to Notre Dame in June and hasn’t really budged off of that verbal pledge.
Offensive tackles
Alan Ali (Cy Fair)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.33 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (NR)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:SMU and Tulsa
Where UT Stands:On one hand, Ali plans to make trips to a bunch of Junior Days and he’s not listing Texas among them. On the other hand, Texas offensive line coach Matt Mattox was one of the first coaches to offer him, so keep an eye on this kid moving forward.
Austin Deculus (Cy Fair)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.17 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.33)
Future 50 Highlights
Current offers:Alabama, Georgia LSU, Baylor, Michigan and Tennessee
Where UT Stands:LSU is the big favorite here, with the likes of Michigan, Baylor and Alabama also receiving strong consideration at this stage. The Longhorns haven’t been a factor in his recruitment yet.
Walker Little (OL/Houston Episcopal)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.10 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.9)
Junior HighlightsandRivals Camp Series 1-on-1's (Dallas)
Current offers:Alabama, Baylor, LSU, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Stanford, Texas, TCU and Tennessee
Where UT Stands:With attention coming from all over the nation, this has a chance to be quite a battle for the Longhorns, although he’s always had a very strong soft spot in his heart for the program. When it’s all said and done, look for the Longhorns to be heavily in the mix. Buckle up.
Quotable:“(UT is) my first offer, so that definitely holds some weight. I love the town, love the coaching staff. I have built up a pretty good relationship with coach Wickline so far, and I hope to continue building on it. And it’s just the culture of it. Texas has been a football powerhouse for most of my life.”
Grayson Reed (Houston Cy Creek)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.31 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.54)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Baylor, Houston, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M and TCU
Where UT Stands:The cousin of former Longhorns defensive end Cedric Reed, look for the Longhorns to be a major factor in his recruitment, but he swears he’s keeping an open mind and he’s mentioned schools like Oklahoma, Baylor and Texas A&M a little more than the Longhorns right now.
Quotable(Via Rivals on 1/20) "Cedric (Reed) is my cousin and a lot people assumed that I would commit after Texas offered," Reed said. "I do like Texas, but want to experience the recruiting process for myself and have already built some good relationships with some other coaching staffs.
"There are a lot of schools that I like. I'm interested in Texas A&M, Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and several other schools like Arizona State and Houston. I want to take my visits and see what each program is like, see what fits me."
Tyrese Robinson (OL/McKinney Boyd)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.9 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.5)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Auburn, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, TCU and Texas
Where UT Stands:Another knock-down, drag-out recruiting battle looms for this talented tackle, but the Longhorns are among the schools that should factor heavily in his decision-making process. Oklahoma is currently the only Junior Day visit on his books.
Quotable:(Via Rivals on 1/19) “Mainly I like the Big 12, only a couple of SEC schools like I like Ole Miss and Auburn. But mainly some Big 12 schools I really like are Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, I like TCU, Baylor, and Texas.”
Offensive guards/Centers
Jack Anderson (OL/Frisco)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/6.0/No.5 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.19)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Texas Tech
Where UT Stands:Both of his parents are Tech grads and he would appear to be a strong Tech pledge right now, despite all of the national attention.
Wes Harris (Aledo)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.14 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.37)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Committed to TCU
Where UT Stands:Although he has family connections to Texas A&M, Harris committed to TCU very early in the process. It’ll be interesting to see what happens as more schools start to offer the national center prospect, but the Longhorns have not emerged as a factor yet.
QB - Sam Ehlinger, Westlake https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-Sam-Ehlinger-167381
WR - Damion Miller, John Tyler https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-Damion-Miller-169583
TE - Major Tennison, Bullard https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-Major-Tennison-175197
DE - LaGaryonn Carson, Texarkana https://rivals.yahoo.com/texas/football/recruiting/player-LaGaryonn-Carson-177823
Below is a breakdown of the early list of top players in the state of Texas on the offensive side of the ball, lusted by position based on four-star rankings from Rivals and the summer LSR list. Defensive side of the ball next week.
Quarterbacks
Sam Ehlinger (QB/Austin Westlake)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Three-stars/5.7/No.37 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.10)
Sophomore Highlights
Current status:Committed to Texas
Where UT Stands:One of the building blocks for what could be a national Top 5-10 class for the Longhorns.
Quotable"Been a Longhorn since day one, I'm truly blessed to say I am committed to the University of Texas."
Shawn Robinson (QB/Denton Guyer)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9 grade/No.7 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.2)
Sophomore Highlights
Current status:Committed to TCU
Where UT Stands:The original No.1 target at the quarterback position for the Longhorns, Robinson committed to TCU last summer and appears locked in on his decision, although it’s a long time until 2017’s National Signing Day. With the quarterback commitment merry-go-round already in motion, it’s likely that there won’t be much to see here as it relates to the Longhorns.
Quotable: "Coach Strong is a great coach. He needs time to make changes but I have seen how much it has worked in just one year. Last year’s product was not on him. He didn’t have a year of recruiting so I expect it to be different this year and moving forward.”
Chris Robison (QB/Mesquite Horn)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.11 in Texas), LSR Pre-season LSR (No.16)
Sophomore Highlights
Current status:Committed to Oklahoma
Where UT Stands:An early commitment for the Sooners last summer, neither the Longhorns nor Robison showed much interest in each other.
Ty Brock(QB/College Station)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.35 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.24)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Houston
Where UT Stands:Camped at Texas last summer, but he’s likely off the radar after missing almost all of his junior season with an injury. It’ll be interesting to see where his recruitment goes this year because he’s got a lot of raw skill, but it’s unproven and undeveloped.
Running backs
Eno Benjamin (Wylie East)
Current recruiting grades:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.34 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.44)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Boise State, Miami, Texas Tech, Houston, SMU, Tulsa and Vanderbilt
Where UT Stands:Although he currently lists IOwa as his favorite, his stock is just starting to take off and the Longhorns will likely be front and center in his recruitment if he becomes a key target.
Quotable
Not going to lie, I'm trying to get back down to UT & kick it with@Official_MalikJ
— Eno Benjamin™ (@eno_benjamin5)January 15, 2016
Toneil Carter (RB/Langham Creek)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.6 in Texas), Pre-season LSR
(No.7)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Alabama, Arkansas, Baylor, LSU, Oklahoma Tennessee, Texas and Texas A&M
Where UT Stands:The first 2017 in-state back to receive a Texas offer last spring, Carter is a Louisiana native and that might prove to be a tough safe to break into. At this point, he’s keeping a very open public profile.
Quotable:"Well I am from New Orleans, Louisiana so I grew up liking LSU. An offer would mean the world to me, that's my No. 1 school."
J.K. Dobbins (RB/La Grange)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.8 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.13)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Arkansas, Arizona State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Texas, TCU and Texas A&M
Where UT Stands:Once upon a time, the Longhorns were a leader with Dobbins and he was an early commitment candidate, but he’s taking a wait-and-see approach with the Longhorns at this point. If Sterlin Gilbert can solve the Texas offensive identity woes, look for the Longhorns to re-emerge as a key piece of his recruitment. Dobbins needs to be one of the first calls that the new running backs coach makes when he arrives on campus.
Quotable:(Via OB on 12/4) "I was riding high on Texas. After this season, of course - I'm the type of guy that wants to win. Losing makes me mad. Seeing them struggle ... I know they have some young people and I have a feeling Charlie Strong is going to bring them back up, but it has brought them back to the pack."
Wide receivers
Damion Miller(WR/John Tyler)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.23 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.23)
Junior Highlights
Current status:Committed to Texas
Where UT Stands:Miller became the first commitment in the 2017 class for the Longhorns earlier last summer and is a key foundation piece for the upcoming recruiting year.
Octavius Evans (Center)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.24 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.59)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Louisiana Tech and Texas Tech
Where UT Stands:One of the top players in East Texas this year, the stock for this Rivals national Top 250 prospect is just starting to take off. He’s in Jeff Traylor’s backyard, so keep an eye on this one.
Hezekiah Jones (WR/Stafford)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.13 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.20)
Junior Highlights
Current status:Committed to Baylor
Where UT Stands:The Longhorns appeared to be the early favorite to land Jones, but he shocked quite a few people when he committed to Art Briles last summer and at this time he seems fairly locked into his decision. .
Quotable:"I have already been there a few times, this was my third time to visit Baylor. My first visit was a basic tour of the facilities, the second visit we talked with the academic advisors and strength & conditioning coaches, but this visit I was able to do all of them at once and spend a lot more time around Coach (Art) Briles. I felt like this time was the right time to make my commitment because my family loves Baylor, my friends love Baylor and it's just a place that I can see myself living.
Jaylon Jackson (Cedar Hill)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.26 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.46)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Kansas, Oklahoma State, SMU and Texas Tech
Where UT Stands:Jackson missed the entire 2015 season while recovering from an ACL injury, but he really hasn’t been mentioned in connection with the Longhorns at this stage of his recruitment. Keep an eye on Oklahoma in his recruitment.
Cedarian Lamb (Richmond Foster)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.29 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.67)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Oklahoma
Where UT Stands:It’ll be interesting to see if the Longhorns expand interest in Lamb, but at the moment he’s all OU.
Omar Manning (Corsicana)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.18 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.74)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Arizona State., Colorado, Houston, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and UCLA
Where UT Stands:Texas isn’t really involved with Manning at this point and he currently lists a top three of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and UCLA. Consider it very early in his recruitment.
Quotable: “Right now I like Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and UCLA. They’re good programs. Oklahoma made it to the playoff this year. I’m close to the coaches at Oklahoma. At Oklahoma State it’s the same, I’m close to the coaches. And UCLA that was one of my favorites growing up.”
Mannie Netherly (Crosby)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.25 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.72)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Texas A&M
Where UT Stands:The Longhorns are one of the few schools from the state of Texas that hasn’t offered Netherly, who committed to the Aggies in November. Considering the state of that program right now, expect every school that has offered to make a hard attempt to poach him away.
Charleston Rambo (Cedar Hill)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.20 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.39)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Miami, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Washington, Tennessee and Houston
Where UT Stands:Another prospect that the Longhorns haven’t really engaged in high-level talks with yet, but you know the Longhorns are familiar with Cedar Hill, so they’ll take a long look at him this spring.
Tight Ends
Brock Wright (Cy Fair)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/6.0/No.3 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.28)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Notre Dame
Where UT Stands:The Longhorns were early to offer the state’s top tight end prospect, but the high four-star prospect committed to Notre Dame in June and hasn’t really budged off of that verbal pledge.
Offensive tackles
Alan Ali (Cy Fair)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.33 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (NR)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:SMU and Tulsa
Where UT Stands:On one hand, Ali plans to make trips to a bunch of Junior Days and he’s not listing Texas among them. On the other hand, Texas offensive line coach Matt Mattox was one of the first coaches to offer him, so keep an eye on this kid moving forward.
Austin Deculus (Cy Fair)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.17 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.33)
Future 50 Highlights
Current offers:Alabama, Georgia LSU, Baylor, Michigan and Tennessee
Where UT Stands:LSU is the big favorite here, with the likes of Michigan, Baylor and Alabama also receiving strong consideration at this stage. The Longhorns haven’t been a factor in his recruitment yet.
Walker Little (OL/Houston Episcopal)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.10 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.9)
Junior HighlightsandRivals Camp Series 1-on-1's (Dallas)
Current offers:Alabama, Baylor, LSU, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Stanford, Texas, TCU and Tennessee
Where UT Stands:With attention coming from all over the nation, this has a chance to be quite a battle for the Longhorns, although he’s always had a very strong soft spot in his heart for the program. When it’s all said and done, look for the Longhorns to be heavily in the mix. Buckle up.
Quotable:“(UT is) my first offer, so that definitely holds some weight. I love the town, love the coaching staff. I have built up a pretty good relationship with coach Wickline so far, and I hope to continue building on it. And it’s just the culture of it. Texas has been a football powerhouse for most of my life.”
Grayson Reed (Houston Cy Creek)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.8/No.31 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.54)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Baylor, Houston, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M and TCU
Where UT Stands:The cousin of former Longhorns defensive end Cedric Reed, look for the Longhorns to be a major factor in his recruitment, but he swears he’s keeping an open mind and he’s mentioned schools like Oklahoma, Baylor and Texas A&M a little more than the Longhorns right now.
Quotable(Via Rivals on 1/20) "Cedric (Reed) is my cousin and a lot people assumed that I would commit after Texas offered," Reed said. "I do like Texas, but want to experience the recruiting process for myself and have already built some good relationships with some other coaching staffs.
"There are a lot of schools that I like. I'm interested in Texas A&M, Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and several other schools like Arizona State and Houston. I want to take my visits and see what each program is like, see what fits me."
Tyrese Robinson (OL/McKinney Boyd)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.9 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.5)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Auburn, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, TCU and Texas
Where UT Stands:Another knock-down, drag-out recruiting battle looms for this talented tackle, but the Longhorns are among the schools that should factor heavily in his decision-making process. Oklahoma is currently the only Junior Day visit on his books.
Quotable:(Via Rivals on 1/19) “Mainly I like the Big 12, only a couple of SEC schools like I like Ole Miss and Auburn. But mainly some Big 12 schools I really like are Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, I like TCU, Baylor, and Texas.”
Offensive guards/Centers
Jack Anderson (OL/Frisco)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/6.0/No.5 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.19)
Junior Highlights
Current offers:Committed to Texas Tech
Where UT Stands:Both of his parents are Tech grads and he would appear to be a strong Tech pledge right now, despite all of the national attention.
Wes Harris (Aledo)
Current recruiting grade:Rivals (Four-stars/5.9/No.14 in Texas), Pre-season LSR (No.37)
Sophomore Highlights
Current offers:Committed to TCU
Where UT Stands:Although he has family connections to Texas A&M, Harris committed to TCU very early in the process. It’ll be interesting to see what happens as more schools start to offer the national center prospect, but the Longhorns have not emerged as a factor yet.