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Chris Del Conte’s savage comment and football in the fall

Locked on Longhorns Podcast returns to discuss athletic director Chris Del Conte’s latest comments on playing the Aggies plus football talk.

Patrick and Cami open the show discussing Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte’s comment on playing Texas A&M in the future. Plus an update on Ja’Quinden Jackson as he recovers from partially torn ACL in December and new contracts set to be approved by the Texas Board of Regents.

They continue their depth chart discussion as they focus on the running back position. The NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline’s comments about fall sports making a return. Another power five school has announced they are planning on returning to the practice field in the summer, is this another step towards a return to sports?

ESPN polled over 1,000 fans on whether or not they want sports to resume without fans. The results plus how do the hosts feel about it? ESPN has released their FPI (Football Power Index), where is Texas ranked? Mel Kiper Jr has released his top 25 big board for the 2021 NFL Draft, How many Longhorns are in the conversation?

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Texas Longhorns in Mel Kipers’ top 25 big board

ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr has released his early top 25 big board for the 2021 NFL Draft class. Sam Cosmi, Joseph Ossai and Caden Sterns make it.

Recently ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr released his 2021 top 25 players* for next year’s NFL Draft. The big name on the list for the Longhorns in the 2021 class will be Sam. No, not Ehlinger but Cosmi. According to Kiper, Samuel Cosmi is listed as the second best offensive tackle in the class.

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Cosmi comes in at number 12 on the board.

Cosmi, who started at right tackle as a redshirt freshman in 2018 then switched to left tackle last season, is a phenomenal athlete. Just watch this 12-yard touchdown reception from 2019. He has great feet and can also bowl over edge defenders in the run game. If he puts all of his talent together, he could be a top-10 pick. The Big 12 is wide open in 2020, but the Longhorns have the league’s best offensive lineman and a really solid veteran quarterback in Sam Ehlinger.

The offensive tackle is the Longhorns best shot at their first round one draft pick since 2015. Recently, former linebacker Malik Jefferson tweeted about a time that he went up against Cosmi on the scout team, he knew then how talented he was.

Kiper goes on to list his top five players of the 2021 class at each position, here is how the Longhorns stacked up.

  • Samuel Cosmi, OT, 2nd
  • Joseph Ossai, OLB, 5th
  • Caden Sterns, S, 3rd

Joseph Ossai will be an interesting study this upcoming football season. Currently slated to play in the “Jack” role for the Longhorns defense as a pass rush-linebacker hybrid on the outside. Ossai is very much built like the weakside defensive ends at the NFL level. While Kiper listed him as an outside linebacker, he could be viewed more as a pass rush specialist after the 2020 college football seasons. He finished five sacks (three came against Utah) and 13.5 tackles for loss last season, with a new focus expect those numbers to skyrocket. As will his draft stock following his junior year.

Caden Sterns has recently been receiving some first round hype in some mock drafts early on in the process. Despite that he had a down year in 2019, big things could be on the horizon for the third-year safety. Sterns only played in nine games, starting eight due to injury. The 2018 Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year could have a return to his 2018 form under new defensive coordinator Chris Ash. With the emphasis being on getting to the quarterback, there could be plenty of opportunities for Sterns to make plays on the ball or create turnovers with his punishing style.

 

Texas Athletic Director weighs in on resuming an old rivalry

Texas Longhorns’ athletic director Chris Del Conte weighed in on resuming a rivalry with the Aggies of Texas A&M and it wasn’t pretty.

One of the more burning questions surround Texas athletics outside of the COVID-19 situation has to be on rekindling an old rivalry that died in 2011. Recently Missouri and Kansas announced a return to their border war that ended with the Tigers made the jump to the Southeastern conference along with Texas A&M. Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte joined Horns 247 where he answered many questions about Texas athletics, one such question involved bringing the A&M-Texas game back to life.

The Longhorns did play the LSU Tigers this past season and have a return game in 2020 as they travel to Baton Rouge. As far as the Aggies, well CDC’s answer pretty much summed up why the Longhorns won’t be playing their long-time rivals. The Longhorns football team seems more interested in playing teams that have won a National Championship in the last 80 years.

Guess that answers that question.

Jordan Thomas commits, a look at the 2021 class rankings

The latest Locked on Longhorns podcast where Cami and Patrick discuss recruiting, 2020 season for two players and the men’s basketball team.

Cami and Patrick open the show to discuss the latest recruiting news. The Longhorns lost out on a top wide receiver in Quay Davis who committed to the USC Trojans. Texas did get a top defensive end in the state with the addition of Jordan Thomas as they continue to give weapons to Oscar Giles to deploy on opposing quarterbacks. An update on the 2021 recruiting class with the Texas Football rankings from Dave Campbell. How many top prospects in the state are locked in to join the Longhorns?

Pro Football Focus came out with their Big 12 rankings for the top returning cornerbacks with D’shawn Jamison coming in at number three. What is the outlook for him and Caden Sterns who is projected as a first round draft pick in 2021 according to the Draft Wire. What is the depth chart projections for quarterback?

Despite the fact that the team cannot participate in organized team activities, that hasn’t stopped Vernon Broughton II from working out with his dad. The Athletic discusses classic uniforms and Rivals’ Mike Farrell botches the top 10 helmets in college football. Plus the hype surrounding the men’s basketball team with the Jon Rothstein 45. The Longhorns make the top 20.

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Texas Recruiting: Longhorns lose out on top WR to USC

One of the top wide receivers in the state and Texas Longhorns’ target Quaydarius Davis commits to USC.

The Texas Longhorns had their eyes set on one of the top wide receivers in the state, Quaydarius Davis of Skyline (Dallas, TX). According to 247’s prospect page, Davis was rated the 17th wide receiver in the country and 17th rated player in the state according to their composite rankings. He was once committed to SMU but then changed his commitment to Texas on June 9, 2019. Only to then decommit from the Longhorns on November 11th of that same year.

Despite re-opening up his recruiting, some still felt that the Longhorns were in the running to land the state’s top receiver. However, Davis committed to the Southern California Trojans on May 1, 2020. A school that he had yet to even visit.

Ryan Young of Rivals’ USC website details how hard the Trojans were going after Davis. This could be taken as a shot at how lackadaisical the staff at Texas were in terms of targeting him to come to the Longhorns. This marks the second time in a calendar year that a receiver chose USC over Texas. Bru McCoy enrolled at Texas before transferring to USC, the school he was once committed to before eventually landing in Southern Cal.

 

Texas Offers 2023 wide receiver from Las Vegas

The Texas Longhorns have offered 2023 wide receiver Zachariah Branch of Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas. The 5’8″ wide receiver can be a weapon.

The Texas Longhorns staff have offered a 2023 wide receiver out of Las Vegas. Zachariah Branch might be small in stature but the Bishop Gorman product is one that you must keep an eye on at all times. He is very shifty and can make plenty miss in the open field leading to big plays.

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A look at the 2021 recruiting class with Dave Campbell’s rankings

We dove into the 2021 recruiting class with Dave Campbell’s recruiting rankings to see just how good the class looks.

The Texas Longhorns have had a busy recruiting cycle regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic putting some strain on their efforts. The 2020 class wrapped up with the edition of Jahdae Barron joining the class that ranked them eighth overall. The Longhorns finished that class with five players ranked in the top 25 of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football rankings.

  • No 6- JaQuinden Jackson | QB | Duncanville
  • No 8- Hudson Card | QB | Lake Travis (Austin, TX)
  • No 11- Vernon Broughton II | DE | Cypress Ridge (Houston, TX)
  • No 16- Alfred Collins | DE | Bastrop (Cedar Creek, TX)
  • No 25- Xavion Alford | DB | Shadow Creek (Pearland, TX)

The Longhorn were able to walk away with five of the top five recruits in the state according to the list by Campbell. They also added Troy Omeire (32), Jaylen Garth (34) and Logan Parr (37) to round out the top 40. Looking at the 2021 class, the Texas Longhorns already have commitments from the following players in the top 25 of this year’s rankings:

  • No 3- JaTavion Sanders | DE | Denton Ryan
  • No 15- Billy Bowman | ATH | Denton Ryan
  • No 20- Jalen Milroe | QB | Katy Tompkins
  • No 38- Hayden Connor | OT | Katy Taylor
  • No 39- Derrick Harris | OLB | New Caney

The 2021 recruiting cycles is far from done so this list should only grow with the team being in the mix for some of the best players in the state. In fact here is the list of top players in the rankings with offers from the Longhorns.

  • No 1- Tommy Brockermeyer | OT | All Saints (Fort Worth, TX)
  • No 7- Savion Byrd | OT | Duncanville
  • No 10- Clayton Smith | OLB | Texarkana
  • No 13- Shemar Turner | DE | DeSoto, TX
  • No 16- Ismael Ibraheem | CB | Kimball (Dallas, TX)
  • No 22- Garrett Nussmeier | QB | Flower Mound
  • No 37- JD Coffey | DB | Kennedale

With the level of talent on the radar for the Texas Longhorns and with a new staff doing the recruiting, there is a lot to be excited about. Especially when you consider the future of the program.

Four-star defensive end commits to Texas

Texas has added a four-star defensive end to their 2021 recruiting class.

Texas head coach Tom Herman and Co. have made it a top priority to strengthen the defensive line, it looks like the plans have started to come to fruition. Continue reading “Four-star defensive end commits to Texas”

Texas Football: Latest 2021 Mock Draft

The latest 2021 NFL Mock Draft has two Texas Longhorns selected in round one. One to the Chicago Bears and one to the Dallas Cowboys.

The 2020 NFL Draft saw Brandon Jones, Devin Duvernay and Collin Johnson all finding new homes. The 2021 NFL Draft could see even more Longhorns finding their new homes. More specifically, multiple Texas players could do so on day one of the 2021 draft. Luke Easterling of Draft Wire has released his latest mock draft. In his way too early projections, two Longhorns get the call to the stage for pursue their professional career.

Pick 01.14

Chicago Bears: Samuel Cosmi, Offensive Tackle

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There is no question that a top need for the Chicago Bears is at offensive line. For the Bears to climb out of the doldrums of the NFC North division, they have to upgrade the position. Yes, the Detroit Lions were by far the worst team in the division but the Bears were a bottom five offensive team in the league in 2019.

The Bears were bottom five in almost every offensive statistical category. Upgrading their offensive line needs to be a top priority. Especially at offensive tackle. The Bears currently have Charles Leno Jr and Bobby Massie as their starters and signed through 2022. However, the team could look to get younger and more athletic at the position. Hence why taking Samuel Cosmi would be a smart move by the team.

Pick 01.26

Dallas Cowboys: Caden Sterns, Safety

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The Dallas Cowboys did a lot in the 2020 offseason to upgrade their team but they did not put as much emphasis on the safety position. The team brought in HaHa Clinton-Dix but only a one-year contract. Add in the fact that Xavier Woods is also on a one-year deal the team could look to upgrade the position in the next offense. Caden Sterns has entered the chat.

Sterns enters his third year in Austin and many feel that it could be his last. If Sterns declares for the NFL Draft he could very well find his way into the 2021 NFL Draft conversation in round one. Sterns need to prove he can stay healthy, and he very well could thrive under new defensive coordinator Chris Ash. He is one season removed from snagging four interceptions as a freshman and look for him to return to form in 2020.

Matthew McConaughey video chats with five-star Texas target

Matthew McConaughey is known as the jack of all trades around Austin, but you can now add recruiter to his resume.

Texas is pulling out all the stops to steer five-star prospect Tommy Brockerymeyer to Austin. Continue reading “Matthew McConaughey video chats with five-star Texas target”