Texas Football: Longhorns should pursue OK State WR C.J. Moore

Possibly the first name that the Texas football program should go after in the NCAA Transfer Portal is former Oklahoma State WR C.J. Moore.

The NCAA Transfer Portal could get wild again entering the 2020 offseason. And potentially the Big 12 program that lost the most so far to the transfer portal is the Oklahoma State Cowboys, not the Texas football program. Last offseason, it looked like Texas would be the one out of the Big 12 that lost the most to the transfer portal. At one point, Texas lost three talented quarterbacks to the transfer portal. The good news was that they retained one of those three, redshirt freshman Casey Thompson.

But the Texas Longhorns football program could be the benefactor of the latest big time name to enter the transfer portal this offseason. Oklahoma State lost out on the former four-star highly touted wide receiver recruit and redshirt freshman C.J. Moore.

The loss of Moore could be due to a number of factors. The first being that Moore has gone through three different offensive coordinators during his time in Stillwater already. Sean Gleeson was the most recent Oklahoma State offensive coordinator that picked up his coaching talents and left Stillwater. Gleeson will be the next Rutgers Scarlet Knights offensive coordinator.

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Moreover, newly hired Texas offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich was Oklahoma State’s OC when Moore committed to the Pokes back in 2017. But both Yurcich and Gleeson are now out of Stillwater, and former wide receivers coach Kasey Dunn will step up as the next offensive coordinator for Oklahoma State.

It is confusing that if the main reason why Moore leaving Oklahoma State was the offensive coordinator turnover that he announced his transfer intentions as soon as Dunn was named to that position. Dunn was one of the best wide receivers coaches in the country prior to taking this offensive coordinator promotion, and he was one of the assistants that recruited Moore.

The Longhorns will take it if the relationship between Yurcich and Moore can get his attention to the Forty Acres. Dunn and Yurcich were the two main assistant coaches that recruited Moore before he committed and signed out of Union High School.

Turnover in the receiving corps could be a big detriment to the Texas offense in 2019. They lose the standout pair of senior wide receivers from the 2019 team this offseason, with Collin Johnson and Devin Duvernay running out of eligibility.

It is time for the Longhorns to start finding their next faces of the receiving corps for the future. Moore could be one of those guys alongside to-be sophomore Jake Smith and rising junior Brennan Eagles.

Texas could really use another sizable wide receiver to replace the production of Johnson on the outside. The 6-foot-5 and 180 pound second-year wideout only has 81 receiving yards and two touchdown catches in his college career, but he didn’t get much playing time last year behind Tylan Wallace and Dillon Stoner.

Talent and experience in a spread scheme are big drawing points for Moore to the Longhorns. This move makes a lot of sense, and Texas was adept to hitting the transfer portal to find answers in problem areas in the past.

Moore hitting the transfer portal immediately makes him one of the most attractive candidates, even if his eligibility might not come in 2020. The Longhorns could use him over the long haul, and pursuing him is a logical move.