Texas clearly had several needs to address on the recruiting trail after their dreadful 5-7 season. However, wide receiver help was apparently not one they prioritized.
It’s not to say that Steve Sarkisian’s first recruiting class isn’t great, because it certainly has the makings of a class that can go down as one of the best to ever grace the campus, but they were clearly prioritizing the trenches. Of the 26 players that Texas has signed, 14 are a linemen. The trenches were certainly a need as last season Texas was constantly pushed off the ball.
While the Longhorns excelled in improving the trenches, they were only able to bring in one wide receiver in the 2022 class up to this point.
The class technically has two receivers in four-star Brenen Thompson, who many believe can have an Xavier Worthy like impact his freshman season, and three-star Savion Red who has been projected to be a gadget player that will likely make the move to running back.
While both of these recruits are talented, the staff was hoping to land another high profile recruit like five-star Evan Stewart (Texas A&M) or four-star Shazz Preston (Alabama). There are still some talented wide receiver prospects on the board, but it definitely seems like adding an experienced from the transfer portal would be a more viable option.
Texas’ receiving core outside of Worthy is either unproven or injury prone at the moment, meaning adding someone who has high level experience to give freshman sensation Quinn Ewers another weapon can only help.
Receivers like Jadon Haselwood (Arkansas), Tyrese Chambers (announced top-5), and Mycah Pittman (interest in other schools) are all notable receivers that are likely off the board for Texas, but there still are a ton of great options.
Here are a few receivers in the transfer portal that Texas should pursue in order to sure up their receiving core.