Ex-Bama WR Tyrell Shavers transfers to Mississippi St over Texas football

The former Alabama Crimson Tide rising junior wideout Tyrell Shavers just found a home with Mississippi State, picking the Bulldogs over Texas football.

It appears that head coach Tom Herman along with recently hired offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich and recently promoted wide receivers coach Andre Coleman are still in the market of finding more wide receiver help outside of what’s on the current roster. The Texas football program already looked for help in the NCAA Transfer Portal once this offseason at the wide receiver position when they landed former Michigan Wolverines graduate transfer and rising senior Tarik Black.

Landing the former Michigan wide receiver Black was a nice get for Herman to upgrade the passing game. But it seems like he thinks it could take more to get this receiving corps off the ground. Texas apparently has interest in the former Alabama Crimson Tide four-star recruit and rising junior wide receiver Tyrell Shavers.

Earlier this month, Shavers put his name into the transfer portal. And there’s a good list of Power Five and significant Group of Five programs already after his services in the portal.

And with any possibility that rising junior Texas wide receiver Brennan Eagles sits out the 2020 season, the receiving corps will get thinner. Eagles is the top returning wide receiver for the Longhorns, in terms of production from last season. He registered 522 receiving yards and six touchdowns as a sophomore.

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However, Texas appears to now be officially out of the running in the race to land Shavers. On his Twitter timeline on the evening of June 8, Shavers announced that he would be taking his talents to join up with former Washington State Cougars head coach Mike Leach and the Mississippi State Bulldogs. It is now decided that he will stick around in the SEC West.

There was also apparent interest that Shavers was getting from the likes of the UCF Knights, TCU Horned Frogs, and Baylor Bears, among other schools. He ultimately chose to stay in the SEC West, as he’ll still be facing Alabama each passing year.

This 6-foot-6 and 205 pound wide receiver is a former four-star recruit that hails from Lewisville, TX, and is a product of Lewisville High School. He held a Texas offer coming out of high school, but that didn’t convince him in the end.

Texas could still be in the market now for a wide receiver that Shavers picked Mississippi State over the Longhorns and the rest of the field. But Mississippi State was mentioned as a program of interest for Shavers since soon after he put his name into the transfer portal.