Texas Football: Updated redshirt chart post-2019 regular season

Take a look at what the freshman Texas football players have done this season and whether or not they exhausted their one, and only, redshirt season.

For years coaches have had the tough decision on whether or not to afford a young player an opportunity to play in what may be a limited role in a few games that would ultimately exhaust a year of their collegiate eligibility. Which players for the Texas football program are looking at redshirts, as it stands at the end of the 2019 regular season?

Yes, you want your younger players to get some live reps, but is one or two games worth giving up 12 or more down the road?

With the new redshirt rule in college football, coaches no longer have to worry about that as they are granted the option to let a player step on the field for up to four games without losing a year of eligibility. Rarely does the NCAA pass a rule that is unanimously praised, but in the summer of 2018 when this was announced it bucked that norm.

Tom Herman has noted that he will take the new redshirt rule in a “fluid” process and will not hurt his team’s chances of winning a game by looking into the long term consequences.

“The times that I’ve been a head coach, it’s always towards the end of the year when attrition starts happening because of injury and bumps and bruises,” Herman said. “You need guys that in previous years you weren’t able to play them because you’re not going to burn a redshirt year on one or two games.”

With the regular season over and just an unannounced bowl game left on the slate, let’s take a look at the class of 2019, noting how many games each player competed in and what their fate is for the near future. The Texas Longhorns football program should have a bright future ahead with all their young talent on campus.