Texas Football: Position-by-position grades for 2020 recruiting class

A host of ups and downs as you go through the depth at each position in the 2020 Texas football recruiting class is something that needs to change.

Through the end of the Early Signing Period, the 2020 Texas football recruiting class appears to be solid. But there are always going to be positional weaknesses that programs have to overcome each passing recruiting cycle. The goal is to patch those positional holes with either the last or the next recruiting class or to develop the young talent on hand.

Talent development is a theme for head Texas football coach Tom Herman this year. A problem that surfaced for Texas this season is the lack of player development that happened within the past decade on the Forty Acres. That narrative cost former Texas head coach Charlie Strong his job, and it’s causing the heat to get turned up on Herman.

However, amid all the coaching controversy and turnover beyond Herman, the 2020 Texas signing class looks good so far. Somehow, Texas stuck around in the top 10 ranked 2020 recruiting classes , according to the 247Sports Team Composite Rankings, in the nation through the end of the Early Signing Period. Despite losing three key commitments in the span of less than a month, Herman managed to sign 17 players.

The only recruiting class in the Big 12 that was even close to catching Texas in the rankings were the Oklahoma Sooners. Head coach Lincoln Riley and the Sooners had an unfortunate run through the end of the Early Signing Period and lost the commitment of four-star Aledo running back Jase McClellan (who wound up signing with the Alabama Crimson Tide).

Here’s a look into the definitive position-by-position grades for the 2020 recruiting class for the Texas Longhorns football program after the end of the Early Signing Period earlier this week.