Texas Football: 3 reasons RB Bijan Robinson reshapes 2020 recruiting class
1. Focus on recruiting other positions
The 2020 Texas football recruiting class is shaping up much different than 2019 did, which is usually to be expected cycle-after-cycle. Yet, one of the stronger areas of the 2019 signing class for the Longhorns was at wide receiver. The highlights at wide receiver in 2019 were Whittington and Bru McCoy (who is now back with USC). Whittington had to move to running back in spring.
Texas all of a sudden has this need to add wide receiver talent and that journey isn’t going as planned thus far. Two key talents at wide receiver that Texas targeted were four-star Troy Omeire and five-star Johnny Wilson. Omeire committed to Texas A&M earlier this offseason and Wilson went with the Oregon Ducks and stayed on the west coast.
The good news here is now that the Longhorns landed a five-star talent at a position of need, the priority can fall to other spots like wide receiver and cornerback. Texas should now be looking to underrated four-star wide receivers that could move more interest here like four-star Booker T. Washington product Javian Hester.
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The commitment from Robinson brings the 2020 recruiting class up to 12 now. Texas missing out on Thompson Jr. to cap the weekend proves that Herman putting his attention elsewhere now on the recruiting trail might be of help.