Texas Football: 3 biggest National Signing Day recruiting misses

As an under-the-radar target of the 2020 Texas football recruiting class for most of this past cycle, three-star Marshall wide receiver Savion Williams passed up numerous significant Power Five offers to land in Fort Worth. The most significant offers he had outside of Texas included the Arkansas Razorbacks, Baylor Bears, SMU Mustangs, Kansas State Wildcats, Ole Miss Rebels, and Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Head coach Gary Patterson and the TCU Horned Frogs were once again a thorn in the Longhorns side during this recruiting cycle. The Horned Frogs tend to be a thorn in the side of Longhorns football in every sense of the term. But the two wide receiver targets for this recruiting cycle that Texas lost out to TCU in particular included Williams and four-star Temple product Quentin Johnston.

The difference between Williams and Johnston was the fact that the latter was a former Texas commit that flipped to TCU just ahead of the Early Signing Period in December. Johnston flipped to TCU just after Texas got rid of both their wide receivers coaches and demoted Beck from offensive coordinator to just quarterbacks coach.

Williams in particular landed with TCU and signed his National Letter of Intent on National Signing Day. He was one of the few big time Texas targets at wide receiver that waited until Feb. 5 to sign his letter of intent.

The 6-foot-4.5 and 205 pound wideout ranks as the nation’s No. 430 2020 high school prospect and the No. 72 at his position. In a very deep recruiting cycle of wide receivers, Williams could be one of the underrated gems that sticks out in a year or two.