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Where eight players that were once members of Texas’ 2022 recruiting class landed during the early signing period.
It’s been a wild recruiting cycle. Continue reading “Where the decommits from Texas’ 2022 recruiting class ended up”
The state of Texas produced seven five-star players in the 2022 class.
The state of Texas produced seven five-star prospects in the 2022 recruiting class. Continue reading “Where the top Texas prospects signed in the 2022 recruiting class”
Despite the late push by Texas, one of their top WR targets is now officially an Aggie.
Five-star wide receiver Evan Stewart officially signed with the Texas A&M Aggies on Friday. Continue reading “Five-star WR Evan Stewart officially signs with Texas A&M”
Five wide receivers that Texas should pursue after missing out on Evan Stewart.
It was a tough day in Austin when the Longhorns found out that their most coveted target, five-star receiver Evan Stewart, had announced his commitment to Texas A&M.
It seemed to be a head-to-head matchup with the Aggies and the Longhorns, but Stewart took to Instagram on Monday to announce that he has decided to play his college football in College Station. He kept his recruitment very close to the chest, and even had Texas fans convinced that they had a shot when he tweeted that he was okay with going to a team that has lost several games.
Surely Steve Sarkisian and his staff were aware that it was a possibility, as they have been recruiting the receiver position hard and are looking to get some more help around freshman star Xavier Worthy.
There are still plenty of viable recruits that can make an impact for Texas, and also a plethora of talented pass catchers in the transfer portal. This remains especially true after Lincoln Riley’s departure from Oklahoma to take the USC job, as multiple Sooners receivers have hit the portal.
While Stewart is surely an elite talent, there are still players out there that could majorly boost Texas’ offense. The Longhorns already have a talented commit in Brenen Thompson, but the more playmakers the better.
Here are five wide receivers that Texas should pursue after missing out on Evan Stewart.
Ouch.
Texas suffered a tough blow on the recruiting trail Monday evening. Continue reading “Five-star WR Evan Stewart commits to Texas A&M over Texas, Alabama”
Texas A&M received two crystal ball predictions for five-star WR Evan Stewart on Wednesday.
Evan Stewart’s recruitment has been quite the roller coaster. Continue reading “Two crystal balls entered in favor of Texas A&M 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.
Hmm…
In what has likely been the craziest two weeks that the Texas football program has been through in a while, it always seems to get more bizarre. Continue reading “Texas WR targets Evan Stewart, Jordan Hudson post cryptic tweets about Longhorns”
Landing a few of these recruits could turn around the state of the program.
Texas desperately needs to gain some momentum on the recruiting trail. Continue reading “Five recruits that can turn around Texas’ football program”
Evan Stewart not turned away by Texas’ losses?
The Longhorns had numerous big-time recruits at their game against Oklahoma State. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a good look that Texas was unable to finish the game for the second consecutive week.
The Longhorns would end up losing to the Cowboys after holding a double-digit lead at one point. There were not many positives that could be taken from the game either, as quarterback Casey Thompson had the worst game of his career, the offensive line is looking more and more hopeless every week, and the defense again got ran all over by Jaylen Warren.
However, there has been two major positives that have come out of the two losses for Texas. The first is the fact that running back Bijan Robinson is an absolute star and is only a sophomore. The second being the fact that sought-after recruits are still viewing Texas as a place to be.
The top wide receiver in the 2022 class, five-star Evan Stewart, tweeted shortly after Texas’ loss to Oklahoma and proved to the fans that not all hope is lost. Although winning is always better, Texas has lost three games already, and still has to take on Baylor and Iowa State. The truth is, Steve Sarkisian is in his first season with a roster of players that don’t all fit the mold of what he wants.
His play-calling abilities that we have seen a few times this season is still a major draw to young players. Stewart tweeted that the more a team loses, the closer they are to success. Perhaps he wants to go in and be one of the reasons the team turns it around?
In my opinion the more u lose… lowkey the closer you get🤷🏾♂️idk I jus have my reasons ig to think that
— 𝓮𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓼𝓽𝓮𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓽 (@0fficial_evan) October 18, 2021
Stewart currently holds 247Sports crystal ball predictions to Texas and Florida, two schools that have underwhelmed in a major way this season and are both coming off majorly disappointing losses.
Stewart likely sees a receiver group that is not very deep, where he can come in and play right away and be a contributor. He like the rest of us has seen freshman sensation Xavier Worthy be a star, and that is something that Stewart will likely consider when making his final decision.
