Texas Football: 3 biggest recruiting wins of the 2020 cycle

3. Signing the nation’s top rated running back

The best signing by far that the 2020 Texas football recruiting class got by the end of the Early Signing Period was five-star Salpointe Catholic running back Bijan Robinson. This 6-foot and 200 pound Tucson, AZ, native was landed over competing programs like the USC Trojans, Ohio State Buckeyes, and the Tennessee Volunteers.

The two biggest running back high school targets for the Longhorns 2020 recruiting class were Robinson and five-star North Shore product and Houston, TX, native Zachary Evans. But Evans remains as the nation’s most prominent unsigned high school prospect even after National Signing Day while Robinson signed with Texas.

Evans was the coveted running back prospect for most of the 2020 recruiting cycle, but Robinson jumped him to become the nation’s top player at the position. Robinson also ranks as the nation’s No. 15 2020 high school prospect and the No. 2 prospect out of the state of Arizona. The only prospect ranked ahead of him from Arizona was fellow Longhorns target and five-star Saguaro cornerback Kelee Ringo.

As the only five-star signee in the 2020 recruiting class for the Longhorns and the future star in the running back room, Robinson is one of the most highly touted prospects coming onto the Forty Acres since safety Caden Sterns. Texas got a good one here that will complement to-be junior Keaontay Ingram and sophomore Roschon Johnson very well out of the backfield.