Texas Football: 3 2020 signees who will make an instant impact

Potentially the most versatile and overall talented signee in the 2020 Texas football recruiting class is the four-star Duncanville dual-threat quarterback/athlete Ja’Quinden Jackson. As one of the highest rated signees in the 2020 recruiting class, Jackson isn’t one that was needed to enroll early on the Forty Acres.

Jackson, like fellow four-star dual-threat quarterback Texas signee and Lake Travis product Hudson Card, had a season-ending knee injury in his final year of high school football. The 6-foot-2 and 220 pound playmaking athlete Jackson is polarizing when he has the ball in his hands in the open field. You can be sure the Texas coaching staff is going to try and give him likes as soon as the fall.

The Longhorns are going to have a treat in store to land two top 75 rated prospects in the nation on campus possibly in the quarterback room from the same recruiting cycle. Jackson in particular ranks as the nation’s No. 73 2020 high school prospect and the No. 3 dual-threat quarterback. Card was the second best dual-threat quarterback from this cycle.

But once Jackson works his way back from this knee injury he had last season with Duncanville, there’s a multitude of ways that Herman and offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich can utilize him. Jackson could play at quarterback, as a bigger target in the receiving corps, or as a linebacker or safety on the defensive side of the ball.

He brings the utmost athleticism and versatility to the table, which is something Herman and his coaching staff value to the utmost degree.