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Texas Football Recruiting: Longhorns to host WR duo

The Texas Longhorns are hosting a duo of four-star receivers from the state of Florida. Should they land either, it would ascend the class.

As the Texas Longhorns and head coach Tom Herman are blazing the recruiting trail as the weekend approaches. The Longhorns will host a duo of top rated wide receiver prospects from the state of Florida.

Plant City product Mario Williams will visit the Forty Acres this weekend. The four-star wide receiver currently holds 33 scholarship offers, including one from the University of Texas. The top schools hot the trail are Alabama, LSU, Georgia and the school that is predicted to earn his commit, Oklahoma.

Also IMG Academy’s Agiye Hall will be in attendance. Hall is another four-star prospect at wide receiver. He currently holds 43 scholarship offers. Much like Williams, Texas made an offer to Hall. His top schools include Alabama, LSU and Georgia. According to 247, Oklahoma has a 17 percent chance to earn his commit. Hall is scheduled to make his commitment decision on March 14th.

This is a huge opportunity for Herman and offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich to make their pitches to the highly touted duo from Florida. Currently Texas is without a wide receiver commit for the 2021 class early on in the recruiting cycle.

Texas Offers 2022 Four-Star Inside Linebacker from Virginia

Texas has offered 2022 ILB Shawn Murphy. Currently a four-star, Murphy has the potential to move up to a five star prospect later.

Texas has offered 2022 inside linebacker Shawn Murphy. Currently a four-star, Murphy has the potential to move up to a five star as he is one of the best prospects in the 2022 class.

RATING

Stars Overall State Position
247 4 3 1 1
Rivals – – – –
ESPN – – – –
247 Composite – – – –

Vitals

Hometown Manassas, VA
Projected Position Inside Linebacker
Height 6-2
Weight 217

Recruitment

  • Offered on March 3, 2020
  • No visit yet

Offers

32 total offers

  • Alabama
  • Clemson
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • LSU
  • Michigan
  • Ohio State
  • Oklahoma
  • Penn State

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Texas has Top 10 recruiting class averages over the past five years

Over the past five years, the Texas football program is ranked the No. 7 team in the nation in terms of recruiting class averages.

It’s clear that the Texas football program has been able to land some of the best players in the country.

It hasn’t necessarily translated to success on the field yet, but the Longhorns are within the top ten teams in the nation in terms of recruiting class averages over the past five years. The lack of production heavily weighs on the coaching staff in regards to player development, which will hopefully be fixed with head coach Tom Herman’s reshaped staff this season.

Regardless, it’s impressive that Texas is consistently amidst recruiting class averages with programs such as Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, and LSU.

CBS Sports recently ranked the schools who have done the best job putting together multiple highly-ranked recruiting classes. Texas lands at No. 7 in the nation, the best in the Big 12 conference.

Their five-year average rating was 10.4, slightly above Michigan. The Longhorns have had a top ten recruiting class over the past three years, having the No. 3 class in the country in 2018 and 2019. If it weren’t for the No. 26 recruiting class in 2017, Texas would have likely been top five on the list.

This list focuses heavily on the play acquisition portion of the program, using data from 247Sports Composite Rankings. Alabama and Georgia are the heavy favorites.

Team Conference Five-year average 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Alabama SEC 2.4 1 1 7 1 2
Georgia SEC 2.8 7 3 1 2 1
Ohio State Big 10 5.4 4 2 2 14 5
LSU SEC 6.8 3 7 15 5 4
Clemson ACC 9 10 16 6 10 3
Auburn SEC 9.6 9 9 12 11 7
Texas Big 12 10.4 11 26 3 3 9
Michigan Big Ten 10.6 5 5 21 8 14
Florida SEC 10.8 13 10 14 9 8

Oklahoma just missed out on the top ten with an overall grading of 11.

 

Watch: UGA five-star commit Kelee Ringo highlights

Kelee Ringo, a UGA commit, played football at Saguaro High School and is from Scottsdale, Arizona. Ringo is considered a five-star prospect.

Kelee Ringo picked UGA over Texas and Oregon. Ringo played at Saguaro High School and is from Scottsdale, Arizona. Ringo is considered a five-star prospect.

He’s considered the best corner in the class of 2020 and he’s officially signed with the Bulldogs. At 6-2, Ringo has excellent length. He also played a little bit of receiver in high school.

Ringo showed willingness to defend the run and tackle as a Junior. Receivers struggle getting any separation from the UGA commit (highlights via Hudl):

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Ringo will be fun to watch in Athens. UGA’s class of 2020 is currently in the top three and may rise further. Georgia should have an excellent secondary next year with Richard LeCounte returning.

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Five-star CB Kelee Ringo commits to the Georgia Bulldogs

The Georgia Bulldogs landed their second five-star of the week: Kelee Ringo. Ringo picked UGA over Texas and Oregon. Ringo played at Saguaro High School and is from Scottsdale, Arizona. He’s considered the best corner in the class of 2020. Now, he’s …

The Georgia Bulldogs landed their second five-star of the week: Kelee Ringo. Ringo picked UGA over Texas and Oregon. Ringo played at Saguaro High School and is from Scottsdale, Arizona.

He’s considered the best corner in the class of 2020. Now, he’s officially signed with the Bulldogs: