Texas Football: 5 Longhorns worth watching amid spring camp

Similar to that of the quarterback depth chart for Texas football during 2019, cornerback is a position that is going to need to find some help for answers. Either way you look at it, Texas looks to have two second-year players starting opposite each other trying to fill some voids left by departing seniors.

Texas is bound to lose its two starting cornerbacks from the 2018 team, and in previous years too among the starters. Senior corners Davante Davis and Kris Boyd are bound for the 2019 NFL Draft and leave two enormous vacancies in the secondary for defensive coordinator Todd Orlando to fill. That could be occupied by second-year corners like sophomore Anthony Cook and redshirt freshman Jalen Green.

Cook and Green are both former four-star recruits as part of the 2018 Texas football recruiting class. Cook did get a bit more playing time for the Texas secondary as a true freshman than Green. He also showed some promise against some decent competition like the West Virginia Mountaineers and even the Kansas Jayhawks.

Moreover, Cook did manage to rack up 18 total tackles, one sacks, and one pass deflection in six games played last season. Something that is unfortunate for Cook and the Horns is that he missed qualifying for the new NCAA redshirt rule last year, where he could only play in four games to avoid foregoing his freshman year of eligibility.