Texas Football: 3 NCAA Transfer Portal OLB Longhorns targets

A next edition of the NCAA Transfer Portal Big Board showed off where the Texas football program could look to land another linebacker.

Our next position to focus on in the NCAA Transfer Portal Big Board during the 2020 offseason for the Texas football program is right at outside linebacker. Texas has a need here, so this is a very relevant part of the big board series.

Linebacker is arguably the thinnest position for Texas on either side of the ball. They could use help all over the place in the linebacking corps, even off the edge. Granted maybe the best Texas linebacker at any spot at this level of the defense is coming off the edge. To-be junior outside linebacker Joseph Ossai is a true force to be reckoned with.

If Ossai isn’t already a household name in terms of Big 12 defenders entering the 2020 season, then he will be soon. Texas has a good leader for the linebackers and in the secondary set for this fall. Ossai will lead the linebackers while the junior defensive back pairing of Caden Sterns and B.J. Foster head up the secondary.

Other names to watch for Texas at linebacker this fall will be redshirt sophomore Ayodele Adeoye and junior Juwan Mitchell. But Texas could always use the additional benefit of more depth at a key position.

Here’s a look into the definitive 2020 NCAA Transfer Portal Big Board for the Texas Longhorns football program at the outside linebacker position during the offseason.