2 Purdue transfers visiting Texas this week

Cole Brevard, DT

The second portal visitor this week among former Purdue transfers for the Longhorns is grad transfer senior defensive tackle Cole Brevard. The big 6-foot-3 and 330-pound sixth-year senior is set to arrive on campus at Texas on Friday (Dec. 13).

Brevard is also scheduled to visit the SMU Mustangs and head coach Rhett Lashlee on Dec. 12.

Defensive line is a massive positional need for defensive line coach Kenny Baker and the Longhorns in the transfer portal this December. While Baker and the Longhorns signed a tremendous high school defensive tackle recruiting class for the 2025 cycle, this transfer portal window for the winter is crucial to adding some immediate-impact high-level guys to the defensive line rotation next year.

Brevard was an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention defensive lineman this season, picking up 19 combined tackles, six tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, 14 quarterback pressures, and 13 defensive stops.

The proven P4 defensive line experience Brevard brings as a big-bodied nose tackle with multiple years of live-game reps as a starter to anchor Purdue's front on defense is a huge need for the Longhorns and Baker. Brevard, at 330 pounds, has the size and proven experience to play the nose position for Texas's interior DL rotation in the 2025 season.

Brevard has one year of eligibility remaining.

Something to note for Brevard's portal recruitment is that he is listed on the transfer market with the "do not contact" tag. That means that he has a scope for his portal recruitment that doesn't allow other teams to proactively reach out to him during the transfer process until he removes the "do not contact" tag.

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