Texas Football: ESPN lists Jordan Whittington as second-year breakout player

In a recent list of the potential second-year player breakthrough stars, redshirt freshman Texas football wide receiver Jordan Whittington was mentioned.

A player that generated a lot of excitement about what was to come during the 2019 season in the incoming freshman class for the Texas football program is former five-star Cuero wide receiver recruit and converted running back Jordan Whittington. This 6-foot-1 and 215 pound rising redshirt freshman skill position potential star Whittington could be the next big thing on the Forty Acres.

Coming out of Cuero High School in-state, Whittington ranked as the nation’s No. 34 2019 high school prospect, No. 2 athlete, and No. 6 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). He was about as highly touted as the Longhorns 2019 signing class, outside of the former USC Trojans transfer and former five-star Mater Dei athlete recruit Bru McCoy.

But the Longhorns lost McCoy out as he transferred back to join head coach Clay Helton and the Trojans during the same 2019 offseason.

A limited role during the 2019 season for Whittington didn’t stop ESPN from listing him among their potential second-year breakout players for the looming 2020 season. ESPN writer Tom VanHaaren included Whittington on that list (paid content) of quite a few other potential breakout second-year stars this fall.

Former Texas five-star wide receiver target and Austin, TX, native Garrett Wilson, now of the Ohio State Buckeyes, was also included on this list as was the ex-Oklahoma Sooners elite dual-threat quarterback recruit Spencer Rattler. Wilson was one of the bigger misses of the Longhorns 2019 recruiting class, and Rattler changed what the landscape looked like on the trail for the Big 12 during the last cycle.

Last season during his true freshman campaign, Whittington only got to play in the regular season opener. A nagging sports hernia injury kept Whittington to just two catches for 17 receiving yards and no touchdowns in that season opener against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.

Whittington will be in a mix of wide receivers for Texas that includes a group of breakout stars like rising sophomore Jake Smith, junior Brennan Eagles, and sophomore Joshua Moore. They will also be joined by former Michigan graduate transfer Tarik Black.