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Former TCU commit DJ Allen could be a great addition to Texas’ class

Should Texas target the most recent TCU decommit?

It is no secret that the Longhorns need help, and a lot of it at the wide receiver position.

Outside of true freshman Xavier Worthy, not one Texas receiver has proven that they can be a consistent playmaker on the field at all times. While the firing of Gary Patterson at TCU may help the Horned Frogs in the long run, it is currently helping schools like Texas in the immediate future, as a few of their highly touted players have since decommitted.

This gives first-year head coach Steve Sarkisian and Co. another chance to get playmakers to Austin, and build a wide receiver class that can truly be special. TCU has lost four commitments in the past two weeks, and two of them are electric receivers that can certainly make a splash at Texas. The latest is four-star DJ Allen, who announced his decommitment on Thursday.

The Gladewater, Texas native is very similar to Xavier Worthy and would be a great addition to Texas’ 2022 class. The Longhorns have yet to offer Allen, but similar to the other four-star receiver that decommitted, Matthew Golden, Texas came calling shortly after.

Texas would likely be behind the eight ball if they were to offer Allen, as he, unlike Golden, visited multiple schools before pledging to TCU. Golden had only visited TCU, which could suggest that his recruitment is starting fresh, whereas Allen may already have a contingency in place.

Either way, the Longhorns could badly use a speedy playmaker like Allen opposite of Worthy to help transcend this offense for years to come.

Bleacher Report declares Texas the best fit for five-star WR Evan Stewart

Is Texas the perfect fit for Evan Stewart?

This has not been the season that Steve Sarkisian and the fan base were hoping to have, as the Longhorns are currently sitting with a 4-5 record.

Texas is in the middle of a four-game losing streak, and many fans are having flashbacks of the prior coaching regimes. Tom Herman and Charlie Strong started off their tenures in Austin with 4-5 records as well.

To make matters worse, outside of the Arkansas loss, Texas was in position to win each of the last four games.

When you take into consideration the off-the-field exotic issues, altercations with coaches, and someone recording one of the coaches berate the players for laughing after being embarrassed on national television by Iowa State — the program has not been shown in a positive light as of late.

However, the viral video of defensive line coach Bo Davis has seemed to work in the favor of Texas as a plethora of recruits tweeted their support of the program. One of them being five-star receiver Evan Stewart. On Tuesday, Bleacher Report recently named Texas as the perfect fit for Stewart.

Here is why they believe Texas and Stewart are a match made in heaven:

Texas has just three healthy receivers who have played significant snaps this year. The Horns need major help at the position alongside Xavier Worthy and Jordan Whittington.

Enter Evan Stewart, the nation’s No. 3 overall player and a virtual Worthy clone from Frisco, Texas. The 6’0″, 175-pound pass-catcher is a near lock to be an instant-impact playmaker, and while Florida has hung around his recruitment for a long time, this looks like a Texas-Texas A&M battle.

He’d be smart to go to Austin, where Sarkisian can team him with Worthy and watch them show out.

The Longhorns need a lot of help on both sides of the ball to rebuild after decades of disappointment, and Stewart would be a major PR win for the school.

Texas could likely experience even more attrition at the receiver position, but adding Stewart along with current Texas commit Brenen Thompson, this receiver group can go from dreadful to elite in no time.

247Sports’ top 10 recruits in Texas includes multiple players with ties to the Longhorns

In regards to 247Sports’ ratings of the top 10 players in the state of Texas, Steve Sarkisian has a chance to land close to half of them.

In what seemed to be an everlasting downfall with former head coaches Tom Herman and Charlie Strong, Texas simply lacked the ability to keep the top recruits in the state of Texas from leaving the state.

SEC schools and Big Ten programs alike have been able to invade the state of Texas and snatch most of the top talent, which during the peak Mack Brown era would never happen.

It is certainly something that new head coach Steve Sarkisian is trying to address, as 2018 was the last time the Longhorns signed the top player in the state when they brought in an impressive haul of seven of the top 10 players  and 12 of the top 25 ranked players in Texas.

In regards to 247Sports’ top 10 recruits in the state of Texas for the 2022 recruiting class, the top overall player in-state is five-star quarterback Quinn Ewers. He was once a Texas commit and is on track to head up north to Ohio State. However, the Longhorns are in position to bring in multiple top 10 players.

While having already secured the commitment from running back Jaydon Blue, Texas is also in contention for three other players. On top of that, the rumors circulating that the Longhorns are still giving their best shot with Ewers won’t go away until he puts pen to paper with Ohio State.

Texas’ 2022 class is already off to a hot start, especially as of late, with the recent commitment from four-star running back Jamarion Miller. As of now, Kelvin Banks is the only prospect on this particular list that has officially announced his commitment date.

Until national signing day, the Longhorns will attempt to prevent the out-of-state invasion.