Texas Football: 3 potential landing spots for QB Casey Thompson

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AUSTIN, TX – SEPTEMBER 22: Tre Watson #5 of the Texas Football Longhorns celebrates with teammates after the game against the TCU Horned Frogs at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on September 22, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /

If Texas football is unable to retain freshman quarterback Casey Thompson through the 2019 off-season, where he could he land?

The train of transfer prospects hitting the NCAA Transfer Portal this off-season from the Texas football program got a little bit intense between the middle of December 2018 and the beginning of this month. It has slowed down a bit for Texas football of late, but the transfer train is something that will keep on rolling for some of the nation’s major programs.

The well-known news that the quarterback room for Texas football has the possibility of really thinning out this off-season started to become a reality in the past week. Former four-star pro-style Texas football commit quarterback Cameron Rising started visiting other schools within the past week. Rising joins fellow freshman quarterback Casey Thompson as the two at the position for Texas football with their names in the NCAA Transfer Portal.

Texas football now has the task of replacing these two key quarterbacks either by way of the upcoming recruiting classes or the transfer market. It would be ideal if Texas football could retain either Thompson, Rising, or junior Shane Buechele heading into the 2019 regular season. If all three do end up leaving the Forty Acres this off-season, Texas football will be left with just two scholarship quarterbacks on the roster.

Those two scholarship quarterbacks would be rising junior Sam Ehlinger and incoming freshman four-star dual-threat Roschon Johnson. But, losing out on a talent like he former four-star dual-threat Oklahoma native Thompson hurts the potential and future at the position. He should be a highly sought after target on the transfer market. Thompson should come into the next program he chooses with three years of eligibility left since he’d have to sit out the 2019 campaign due to transfer rules.

Here’s a look at the 3 potential transfer destinations for the Texas Longhorns freshman quarterback Casey Thompson this off-season.

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