Texas Football: 5 recruits fans wish Longhorns could’ve signed

If you could pick a list of five misses for past Texas football recruiting class among all the prospects offered since 2010, who would they be?

Texas football recruiting is killing the game right now for the 2020 and 2021 classes. Landing three commits in the past seven days for the 2020 and 2021 Texas football recruiting classes vaulted each high up in the national class rankings.

But all this success that the Texas Longhorns football program is having on the recruiting trail right now can make fans think back to potential gems and busts from past classes going back a decade or two.

In the past almost 10 years, the Longhorns were one of the most heralded programs in the nation on the recruiting trail. In the past two recruiting cycles along, Texas ranked among the top three programs in the nation in the national class rankings. Most years see the Longhorns finish in the top 10, and frequently at the top of the Big 12 recruiting class rankings.

Texas has plenty of success stories from the recruiting trail, but there are also stories that show what they missed under the three coaching regimes this decade. Former head coaches Mack Brown and Charlie Strong both recruited well through the 2010’s. But nothing compares to how current head Texas football coach Tom Herman started off his tenure on the Forty Acres.

Here’s a look at the five recruits that fans of the Texas football program have to wish this team would’ve signed coming out of high school since the turn of the decade in 2010.