Texas Football: 3 NCAA Transfer Portal ILB Longhorns targets

Seeking out depth help from another blue blood could be a good move for the Texas football program. Granted it’s not one of the ways that the Longhorns took any of their last three signees out of the transfer portal. Lower tier Power Five programs and Group of Five teams were where Texas got their last three impactful transfers from.

However, the defending National Champion LSU Tigers had a lot of talent leave their program after the College Football Playoff triumph to cap the 2019 campaign. LSU lost the Broyles Award winner Joe Brady and defensive coordinator Dave Aranda to various other landing spots. Aranda will replace Matt Rhule to be the next head coach of the Baylor Bears. And Brady will join Rhule on the Carolina Panthers coaching staff.

One name that showed up in the transfer portal that seems like a good fit for the Longhorns that was recruited as an inside linebacker from LSU is the 6-foot-3 and 230 pound sizable to-be redshirt freshman Kendall McCallum. The former three-star recruit and Oxford, AL, native ranked as the nation’s No. 541 2019 high school prospect and the No. 27 inside linebacker. But he didn’t get any actual game production with LSU last season.

McCallum held a dozen schools on his offer sheet out of Oxford High School. The most significant offers of those dozen came from the Louisville Cardinals, Memphis Tigers, Mizzou Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, and Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

The true freshman campaign can still be very valuable for McCallum since he’ll bring that championship experience and pedigree to his next landing spot. Texas could have a nice long-term piece at linebacker if they land McCallum.