This has been a huge last 24 hours for Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian in the NCAA Transfer Portal winter window, adding key pieces for immediate impact players on multiple sides of the ball since yesterday.
Texas football adds to the defensive front with two key portal pickups from other P4 schools on Saturday
Special teams coordinator Jeff Banks and the Longhorns made it a priority to stabilize the punting game next season by adding proven experience and more consistency. The Longhorns secured their first portal commitment of this transfer cycle on Dec. 13, landing former Utah Utes All-Big 12 senior grad transfer punter Jack Bouwmeester.
Bouwmeester signed with Texas amid his visit to Austin on Friday.
Texas has hosted multiple portal visitors in the past couple of days for the winter transfer window late this week. Former Purdue Boilermakers sophomore tight end Max Klare was the first portal visitor that was reported to be visiting Texas this week on Thursday (Dec. 12).
The Longhorns have also hosted Bouwmeester, former Arkansas Razorbacks sophomore transfer linebacker Brad Spence, and Purdue senior grad transfer defensive tackle Cole Brevard for visits from the portal in the past 24-48 hours.
A handful of those portal visitors have committed to the Longhorns and already signed their paperwork to join the program while they were on campus for their trips this weekend.
This could be a very busy next few days for the Longhorns in the transfer portal. Texas is far from done shopping for immediate upgrade-type players from the transfer market at positions of need on all sides of the ball in this winter window in the portal.
Here's a look at the two defensive transfer commitments the Longhorns landed on Dec. 14.