Texas Football: Horns offer 4-Star 2021 Mississippi St QB target

A potential emerging priority target of the 2021 Texas football recruiting class, 4-Star QB Sawyer Robertson, was officially offered on Jan. 23.

Head coach Tom Herman looks to be set at quarterback through his 2021 recruiting class. But an offer that was sent out for the 2021 Texas football recruiting class on Jan. 23 might indicate otherwise. Texas offered a four-star 6-foot-3.5 and 190 pound pro-style quarterback out of Lubbock’s Coronado High School on Jan. 23, Sawyer Robertson.

Robertson ranks as the nation’s No. 150 2021 high school prospect and the No. 10 at his position. He is also a top 30 ranked 2021 high school prospect out of the state of Texas. He holds a double-digit number of scholarship offers now from Division I programs. The highlights of that offer sheet now includes the Mississippi State Bulldogs, Louisville Cardinals, SMU Mustangs, North Texas Mean Green, Washington State Cougars, and Wisconsin Badgers.

It can be smart sometimes to stack depth at the quarterbacks position about every other recruiting cycle. Taking on just one quarterback in each passing recruiting class can leave the talent and depth thin with that position group. Of course it is better for the quarterback room to be too crowded with young talent than too thin. The Texas Longhorns football program would be smart about this by now.

There seems to be close ties between recently hired Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach and Robertson, though. He received his offer from Mississippi State within the same month that Leach was hired in Starkville. And Wazzu was previously high on his list when he was offered there before Leach left Pullman.

Robertson also works out of a spread offense schematically at Coronado. That could naturally translate to a number of the programs that offered him so far. Louisville, North Texas, Mississippi State, and Texas all offered him this month.

But it could be difficult for anyone to work past Leach in the race to land a commitment from Robertson.

His high school football program is also located in the same city where Leach made himself famous, Lubbock. Leach is a former polarizing head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders, and that’s where his air raid schemes became noteworthy in the first place.

Robertson is the prototypical big armed quarterback that is sizable and can run a spread offense. The running ability isn’t quite up to par with other Longhorns quarterbacks like four-star signee Hudson Card and to-be senior Sam Ehlinger, though.