Tag: 2025 recruiting class

Inside Texas discusses if they’d rather have top WR or DL class

What’s the most important position for Texas’ 2025 recruiting class.

What position is most important for Texas to add is an interesting topic to discuss. The Texas Longhorns have some needs at various positions for 2025, but they can address them with elite players in best case scenarios.

Inside Texas discussed whether or not Texas would benefit more from a best case scenario class at defensive line or wide receiver. Justin Wells would choose a best-case defensive line class.

“Give me the big boys. You want to benefit Texas in the 2025 cycle? I mean, those three (or four) wide receivers will be tremendous. You need big boys. You’re headed to the SEC. That defensive line, that cupboard needs to be filled.”

Wells lists Brandon Brown, Zion Williamson, Kevin Wynn and Josiah Sharma as players he would welcome Texas signing.

Eric Nahlin echoed the sentiment because of what you can add at wide receiver in the portal.

“Yeah, you can win a national championship with portal wide receivers. It’s gonna be very difficult to win a national championship with portal defensive tackles. … It’s a scarcity thing.”

Nahlin shares that Texas can still succeed at wide receiver. You don’t have to choose one of the other, unless it were to come down to NIL funding which isn’t a concern for the Longhorns. But if given the option, he would choose defensive line additions.

Texas has a stronger recruiting pitch for wide receivers, and figures to be a contender to land more than one five-star pass catcher. Still, it has a chance to add a good defensive line class as well for 2025.

3-star LB names Michigan State football in top seven

Bradley Gompers names MSU in his top 7

The 2025 recruiting cycle is set to get off and running as the summer is here and official visit season is starting. With the cycle starting to ramp up, the Spartans have been named to a top seven list of Bradley Gompers.

Gompers is a 6-foot-3, 200 pound linebacker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has yet to be ranked by the recruiting services.

Michigan State is listed alongside Duke, Maryland, Northwestern, Pitt, Rutgers and West Virginia.

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Five-star WR Kaliq Lockett discusses teaming up with Dakorien Moore

Two Texas five-star receivers to Austin could happen this cycle.

Texas high school football is connected. Players within the state hold other talented players in high esteem. Five-stars Kaliq Lockett and Dakorien Moore have that mutual respect and it could mean playing for the same football team in college.

Lockett was asked if he and Moore would possibly team up at one school. He shared insight on what he’s thinking.

“Oh, yes. Me and him (have been) talking about that since we were probably in the eighth grade. … At first, we thought, you know, I thought he was gonna be staying committed to LSU. And it was going to be up to me if I wanted to go to LSU and play with him. But now, it’s starting to mix around and change up a little bit.”

The changeup is a positive for Texas and other schools, though Lockett says that it doesn’t hurt LSU’s chances in his recruitment. If the two team up, though, it probably won’t be at LSU.

Proximity is a good advantage for the Longhorns with both players. Moore would like to play closer to home if the best option allows for it. Lockett plays in Sachse (TX) the home of perhaps one of the 15 or 20 best receivers in Longhorns history and Jacksonville Jaguars receiver, Devin Duvernay.

There’s still plenty of time in both players’ recruitment, but Texas projects to be a more dangerous offense should it add either or both players.

Five-star WR Dakorien Moore discusses where family wants him to play

The five-star wideout reveals where his family wants him to play.

Five-star wide receiver Dakorien Moore has identified several factors in his college choice. Family could play a role in the decision.

Moore detailed where family, specifically his mother, would like him to play. According to the talented wide receiver, choosing the Texas Longhorns would “make her world.”

The Duncanville five-star’s family comes from Austin, and that’s where he has his closest ties. The familiarity and feeling of home certainly leans toward Texas in the recruitment.

Moore discussed other factors in his interview with Inside Texas’ Justin Wells including what would happen if the Longhorns signed two other five-star receivers and the impact of Oregon Ducks assistant coach Rashaad Samples recruiting him.

Rashaad is the son of Moore’s high school head coach Reginald Samples which brings an element of familiarity with Oregon. For that reason, the Ducks are a team to take seriously.

As for signing in a class with two other five-stars, Moore seemed in favor of the move sharing that it would be advantageous to play alongside better receivers. We’ll see if Texas can make it happen.

Sooners No. 7 in ESPN’s recruiting class rankings for 2025

The Oklahoma Sooners have several high-profile recruitments still underway, but they’re in a great spot already in the 2025 recruiting cycle.

Recruiting is certainly a strong point for the Oklahoma Sooners under [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag]. On both sides of the ball, OU has landed blue chip prospects, including five-star players [autotag]Jackson Arnold[/autotag] (2023), [autotag]Adepoju Adebawore[/autotag] (2023), [autotag]Peyton Bowen[/autotag] (2023), and [autotag]David Stone[/autotag] (2024).

It’s set the stage for the Sooners to contend when they make their move into the SEC. In the [autotag]2025 recruiting class[/autotag], the Sooners are already off to a great start with the summer recruiting season approaching. With 15 commitments, the Sooners sit No. 3 in the nation and No. 1 in the SEC in 247Sports team recruiting rankings.

And the Sooners are well within the top 10 of ESPN’s top 25 recruiting classes (ESPN+) for the 2025 cycle.

The Sooners’ first official class as a member of the SEC already has a strong foundation. It’s anchored by offensive firepower, including a pair of ESPN 300 wide receivers in [autotag]Elijah Thomas[/autotag] and [autotag]Gracen Harris[/autotag]. Harris is quick and has good hands. Thomas, an in-state commit, is a precise route-runner and offers a wide catch radius. Running back [autotag]Tory Blaylock[/autotag] can be an electric playmaker with excellent speed — he has registered a max speed north of 21 mph in games.

The Sooners stayed in-state to land [autotag]Kevin Sperry[/autotag] at QB. He has a quick release and good accuracy and threw for over 2,500 yards and completed 68% of his passes as a junior. In-state defensive end [autotag]Alexander Shieldnight[/autotag] has first-step quickness and active hands and tallied 11 sacks as a junior. While much of their class hails from OU’s primary recruiting base, [autotag]Trent Wilson[/autotag] was a nice win out of Maryland. He’s a defensive lineman with good initial quickness as well as agility, and he can be an active presence in the trenches. – Craig Haubert, ESPN

It’s a class that’s equally impressive on defense as it is on offense. Sperry has the chance to be every bit as impactful as the quarterbacks that Oklahoma’s brought on board over the last few years under Venables. His low-key recruitment has been an asset for the Sooners. With their quarterback committed, and helping peer recruit, the Sooners have been able to focus their efforts on an offensive line class that is as elite as 2024’s defensive line class was.

Even though Oklahoma’s experienced coordinator changes on both sides of the ball, they’ve continued to recruit at an incredibly high level. And with high-profile recruitments still to be decided along the offensive line and with five-star safety [autotag]Jonah Williams[/autotag], the Sooners have a chance to add another impactful class to the depth chart in 2025.

There’s still a long way to go in the 2025 cycle, but the Sooners are in a great spot. Any concerns about Brent Venables and his staff’s ability to recruit at Oklahoma are long gone.

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Five-star WR Jaime Ffrench hints at Texas preference in interview

Ffrench’s comments all but singled out Texas as his desired landing spot.

Five-star wide receiver Jaime Ffrench has identified what NIL deal he wants at the college level. He wants to partner with a luxury vehicle manufacturer you might be familiar with.

Ffrench wants to partner with Lamborghini just as Bijan Robinson once did. He discussed his dream NIL deal and its importance in his decision.

“You want to get taken care of anywhere you go. That’s just a big thing in college now. So you want to make sure that’s a piece of it, but also want to be sure you can take care of the on-field stuff.

One team in particular is synonymous with NIL deals involving Lamborghini. That team is Texas. Perhaps Ffrench’s sentiments indicate what appeals to him about the Longhorns.

Austin has plenty of appeal to recruits, from the Lamborghini deals to its music and variety of activities to do outside of football. But in 2023, Texas helped its players win 12 games and a conference title, make a College Football Playoff and develop 11 players into realizing their NFL draft aspirations.

Ffrench likes Texas’ recruiting pitch. The Longhorns will need to recruit the five-star receiver to the final whistle.

What the 2018 Texas safeties class says about current WR class

Texas once signed the top 3 safeties in a recruiting class. Can they sign three of the top 4 receivers?

Surely the Texas Longhorns can’t sign three of the top four wide receivers in the 2025 recruiting class, right? I wouldn’t rule it out.

As a disclaimer, I don’t believe Texas will sign all three five-star wide receivers from in the 2025 recruiting class. That doesn’t mean they cannot sign all three. One past recruiting class indicates it can.

The Texas Longhorns signed 247Sports’ three best safeties in the 2018 recruiting class: DeMarvion Overshown, Caden Sterns and B.J. Foster. To the credit of then head coach Tom Herman, Texas recruiting thrived until the last season of the Herman era.

How did Texas make it happen? Well, Herman and company placed great emphasis on the safety position aiming to bring back the Defensive Back University moniker to Austin. And it paid off with Overshown, Sterns and Foster.

Texas sold defensive back on being the focal point of the football program. It turned out defensive back wasn’t all that impactful on games in the Herman era, as talented players weren’t developed by the previous coaching staff. Sterns figured things out in the NFL but only after head coach Steve Sarksian took over did Overshown fully develop.

In regard to the position Texas is targeting, Sarkisian and company are not only prioritizing wide receiver but have the development and on-field product to prove the position’s importance.

Sarkisian’s first recruit at Texas just saw his name called in the first round of the NFL draft in wide receiver Xavier Worthy. 10 other Longhorns were selected in this year’s draft, the best showing in Texas’ NFL draft history.

The broad development is clear, but the wide receiver position in particular is strong. All three of Texas’ starting wide receivers in Worthy, Adonai Mitchell and Jordan Whittington were drafted. Receiving tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders also saw his name called in the fourth round.

Sarkisian can pitch the narrative, if you’re the third wide receiver option at Texas, there’s a solid chance you get drafted. It may be even more so the case with the talent Texas has added. That’s a compelling narrative.

More than the actual wide receiver coach, Sarkisian’s offense has facilitated the development for Texas. Whittington and Worthy produced on the field with Andre Coleman and Brennan Marion coaching wide receivers prior to Chris Jackson’s arrival. Jackson had arguably the best season with the receiving corps, but the offensive scheme brought stability amid receiver coach changes.

The development is there, but so is the prioritization of the position. Texas receivers are winning matchups consistently. They’re getting off the line of scrimmage with ease and getting open, which Herman’s receivers couldn’t consistently do. They’re given a scheme that allows them to succeed.

The product is resonating with recruits. Though the nation’s No. 1 wide receiver Dakorien Moore has long projected to be a fit at Texas, fellow five-stars Jaime Ffrench and Kaliq Lockett increasingly trend to the Longhorns.

The likelihood is that Texas isn’t going to monopolize the wide receiver position. The prevalence of NIL allows teams with strong funding to select a player and invest all their wide receiver NIL budget to one of the three receivers. But could all three players see the value of teaming up at Texas? It’s possible.

Some programs may ask players if they’d rather make money in college or over a long NFL career after being developed. At Texas, you can do both and make a College Football Playoff. And you can see your name drafted in the first round. You can catch passes from a five-star quarterback kept upright by one of the top offensive lines.

It would take a complete recruiting pitch to win over three five-star wide receivers in one cycle. Texas has a complete recruiting pitch. We’ll see if it adds up into more than one five-star addition at receiver.

Five-star ATH Michael Terry III names Texas among four likely choices

Texas is mentioned among Michael Terry III’s top teams.

The Texas Longhorns are in the hunt for another five-star target.

Elite athlete Michael Terry III named Texas as one of his four most likely choices. Among them were the Oregon Ducks, Texas A&M Aggies and Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Terry’s versatility in addition to five-star talent could play some role in how teams recruit him down the stretch.

The San Antonio product hasn’t tipped his hand as to what direction he’s leaning toward. The 6-foot-3 and 210 pound athlete took a visit to Nebraska on Apr. 26 and is set to visit both Texas on June 7 before visiting Texas A&M on June 13.

There’s less clear of a read on Terry than Texas has about five-star wide receivers Dakorien Moore, Jaime Ffrench and Kaliq Lockett, but the San Antonio player adds another potential five-star option for the Longhorns.

Presumably the Texas A&M Aggies will play a significant role in top recruiting battles against Texas. The Terry recruitment will be worth monitoring this offseason.

2025 four-star defensive lineman names Texas among top six schools

Texas among the top six for highly touted defensive lineman.

The Texas Longhorns were recently named among the final six teams for 2025 four-star defensive lineman Myron Charles. The Port Charlotte product is rated as a top 20 player in the state of Florida and No. 123 overall by 247Sports composite rankings.

The Longhorns currently hold two commitments from defensive lineman as the calendar prepares to turn to June. The top commit of the class is four-star defensive lineman Landon Jackson, who is No. 10 at the position and No. 65 overall. Not to say that this team couldn’t use Charles, defensive lineman is one of those groups where you need more bodies.

Charles has visits set up with the Miami Hurricanes, Florida Gators, and Florida State Seminoles.

No timetable has been set for Charles to trim his list down further or to make his pledge for one of these six teams. It remains to be seen if he will schedule a visit to Austin over the next several months ahead of the college football season.

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Current SEC Recruiting Rankings (247Sports)

  1. Oklahoma Sooners
  2. LSU Tigers
  3. Texas A&M Aggies
  4. Alabama Crimson Tide
  5. Auburn Tigers
  6. Georgia Bulldogs
  7. Tennessee Volunteers
  8. Texas Longhorns
  9. Ole Miss Rebels
  10. Missouri Tigers

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Kentucky football’s 2025 recruiting class is now in the top 25

Kentucky football’s recruiting class is now ranked 25th in the country after recent commitments.

The Kentucky football team and coaching staff recently got a huge recruiting boost with the addition of four-star safety Martels Carter. He’s became the second top 200 recruit in that class to join the Wildcats, along with running back Marquise Davis.

With Carter’s commitment, Kentucky now has six overall recruits for 2025, with three of them rated as four-star players. Wide receiver Quintin Simmons is the other. Quarterback Stone Sanders is in the top 500 of the class, and Brennen Ward and Tucker Kattus are three-star additions.

Related: Mark Stoops ranked as a top 20 coach

On3 Sports now has Kentucky’s recruiting class ranked inside the top 25 overall. They’re average rating is at 88.76, and is just behind SEC opponent South Carolina who is at 88.86.

The Wildcats staff does have some catching up to do with the rest of the SEC. Despite being in the top 25, Kentucky is only 13th of 16 teams in the conference. Only Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, and Arkansas are ranked lower at the moment.