Texas Football: 3 most disappointing Mack Brown blue chip recruits

The final straw for the Longhorns with Brown came during the 2013 season, which was also the final recruiting class that he would put together. Brown lasted through the end of the 2013 season, which was actually pretty promising at one point. But Texas couldn’t finish it out well, and wound up with just eight wins.

Texas would wind up falling short at the hands of the Oregon Ducks in the Alamo Bowl to round out both the 2013 season and Brown’s tenure as the program’s head coach. There was no worse recruiting class that Brown hauled in during his tenure on the Forty Acres than he had for the 2013 cycle.

The 2013 class wound up having almost half of it not really contributing anything of meaning for the Longhorns. And one name that sticks out in particular among those that should’ve been a big-time contributor, but just weren’t, was the former four-star recruit and 6-foot-3 and 220 pound linebacker Deoundrei Davis.

This Cy Woods High School product hailing from Cypress, TX, ranked as the nation’s No. 124 2013 high school prospect, No. 11 outside linebacker, and No. 15 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). He was known as a big hitter with a mature skills set ready to go for college. Davis held offers from the likes of the Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Texas A&M Aggies, etc.

He wound up choosing the Longhorns but didn’t contribute anything really in game action in two years before his college career was essentially done.