Texas Football Recruiting: 3 takeaways from Early Signing Day

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AUSTIN, TX – SEPTEMBER 22: Keaontay Ingram #26 of the Texas Longhorns runs the ball defended by Ty Summers #42 of the TCU Horned Frogs at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on September 22, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /

2. Running back is thinning out

The main priority for the Texas football recruiting class on the first Early Signing Day was to add to the running backs. The sole signee at running back for the Horns in this class is four-star Georgia native Derrian Brown. You could argue that running back is the biggest remaining positional need for the 2019 Texas football recruiting now post-Early Signing Day No. 1.

It was big for the Horns to get the National Letter of Intent signed for Brown, but there were some big losses from commitment decisions on Early Signing Day. IMG Academy has its two star running backs announce each respective commitment decision on Dec. 19. Texas was hoping to add at least one of those two running backs to pair alongside Brown.

Five-star Trey Sanders wound up giving his commitment to the Alabama Crimson Tide. Four-star Noah Cain is set to take his talents to Happy Valley and join the Penn State Nittany Lions. The whiff in pursuit of Cain is the one that hurts the most since Penn State seemingly made a huge late push to nab the No. 7 running back in the nation.

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Cain and Sanders weren’t the only running back targets that the Horns missed out on during the Early Signing Period and the days leading up to it. Three-star JUCO running back Rhamondre Stevenson was a key Texas target that wound up choosing the rival Oklahoma Sooners which took away another possibility to add some depth in the backfield.

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