Texas Football: Horns offer 2022 OU DE target Omari Abor

The only program that seems to have a head start on the 2022 Texas football recruiting target DE Omari Abor is the Oklahoma Sooners.

Scholarship offers were getting sent out in bunches for targets of the 2022 Texas football recruiting class since the dead period ended last month. Head coach Tom Herman took a step back on the strategy he used to send out a limited amount of offers for his 2018 recruiting class and throughout much of the 2019 cycle.

The Texas Longhorns football program sent out more offers to fill up the 2020 recruiting class. That is ironic because the previous two classes actually had more signees overall that the 2020 recruiting class did.

However, the Longhorns did recently offer a key target of the 2022 recruiting class that should step up to the forefront in due time. That recent 2022 offer that was sent out went to the 6-foot-4 and 240 Duncanville weak-side defensive end Omari Abor.

Early in the course of his recruitment, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex native is getting national attention from blue blood programs. His offer sheet includes more than a dozen schools. Among those 13 schools that offered him so far are the Alabama Crimson Tide, Oklahoma Sooners, Auburn Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, Kansas Jayhawks, Mizzou Tigers, Oklahoma State Cowboys, and Washington Huskies.

The offers should only continue to pour in for this rising junior standout pass rusher. He stood out with Duncanville High School during his sophomore campaign, earning him much of the national attention he’s getting during the 2020 offseason. He was named the District 8-6A Defensive Newcomer of the Year, and he’s a track and field athlete along with playing football.

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Texas is the most recent offer that Abor received, and it came back on March 4. Ironically enough, the last one he received before his from the Longhorns came from the rival Sooners. That offer from head coach Lincoln Riley and Oklahoma came on Feb. 2.

Abor was also reportedly recent on campus with both of the major Oklahoma schools for visits in the last two months. Oklahoma seems like one of the early favorites to win over the interests of Abor, but that is mostly speculation at this point. It’s too early to tell to show where any definitive interest for Abor lies.

Texas could use some help at the weak-side defensive end spot since they didn’t have much depth among top prospects their in the last three recruiting classes. Four-star Highland Park outside linebacker/edge rusher Prince Dorbah was about the best that Texas got to fill a similar position with the Texas defense over the course of the last two signing classes.