Texas Football: 3 players Mack Brown coached you forgot about

What looked to be a potent career, that wound up being rather short, belonged to Shertz, TX, native and Clemens High School defensive tackle product Tyrell Higgins. But Higgins left Texas before he could really get started. Texas did get bits and pieces of two seasons of production on the field out of Higgins.

This 6-foot-3 and 260 pound defensive tackle is a former three-star recruit out of Samuel Clemens High School in Shertz. He picked the Longhorns over offers from more than three other schools including the Oklahoma State Cowboys, Mizzou Tigers, and Arizona Wildcats. He ranked outside the top 1,000 2007 high school prospects in the nation, though (247Sports Composite).

Brown landed Higgins to be a part of a 2007 recruiting class that ranked among the top three in the nation and in the top spot in the Big 12. The only recruit that ranked lower in the 2007 signing class was three-star Aledo defensive tackle Michael Wilcoxon.

During his two-years playing with the Longhorns, Higgins registered 11.0 total tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 1.0 sacks, in bits and pieces of 15 games played. His only sack came against the UTEP Miners in his first career game, back in 2009. His next best game came during his last year on the Forty Acres in 2010, where he registered five total tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against the UCLA Bruins.