Texas Football: 3 players most impacted by delay of spring camp

3. Derrian Brown, Running Back

If there’s anyone who needs the reps in spring pracitce for the Texas football program, it would be someone who didn’t get a single rep in game action last fall. Or for this matter, a player that never got a single rep in any game in his collegiate career,. To-be redshirt freshman running back Derrian Brown was held out for the entirety of 2019 due to a health scare he had last offseason.

Brown underwent a stroke early in the 2019 offseason, which held him out of most football activities throughout that entire year. But he should be back and ready to go for the 2020 campaign given the full year of recovery. Brown will now have to wait even longer to get his first real practice reps, and his initial action in the Orange-White Game.

The Longhorns could still be holding the spring football game on time, but that would come with rustier players and more limited practice reps. Herman does like to run game speed practices during spring ball, so this would be valuable for Brown.

And given how young Texas is at the running back position, they definitely need the practice reps anyway. Texas will really have to value the reps they do get in spring camp, and if they get any scrimmage time in to really take that into account too. The former four-star recruit Brown and Buford, GA, native will be looking to make an impact early and often.