Texas Football: 3 potential gem Longhorn finds in the 2020 NFL Draft

There’s four or five former Texas football players that are realistically going to get selected in the 2020 NFL Draft. Some will be gem UDFA finds.

Since the Texas football program rattled off their impressive 2018 campaign that finished with a Sugar Bowl victory over the No. 5 ranked Georgia Bulldogs, head coach Tom Herman had a lot of hype building on the Forty Acres. But a lot of that excitement surrounding the program that built from that massive Sugar Bowl win let to the overwhelming expectations Texas came into the 2019 season with.

Texas entered the 2019 regular season with a top 10 preseason ranking in both the AP and Coaches Poll. That type of standard can be hard for a team on the rise that lost so much production like Texas did ahead of the 2019 season. Texas lost more than half of their starters on the offensive side of the ball, and the defense turned over even more production.

However, Texas still finished out the 2019 campaign on a high-note, like they did in 2018. Texas knocked off the No. 11 ranked Utah Utes in the Alamo Bowl by the final score of 38-10 back on New Year’s Eve. That gave the men in burnt orange a record of 8-5 (5-4 Big 12) to cap off the season.

The next big event for a handful of Texas Exes post-Alamo Bowl is the 2020 NFL Draft. There’s a lot of names worth watching off the Forty Acres in this draft class. This should be a much more fruitful draft class of Texas Exes in 2020 than it was in 2019. Texas only had two players selected in the 2019 NFL Draft. That included defensive end Charles Omenihu (fifth round to the Houston Texans) and cornerback Kris Boyd (seventh round to the Minnesota Vikings).

Here’s a look into the three potential gem finds out of the Texas Longhorns football program in the 2020 NFL Draft.