Texas Football: 3 most crucial injuries through summer workouts

What the Texas football program brings back at the skill positions for the 2020 season could be really special, if they can stay healthy.

Entering the 2020 offseason, the Texas football program looked like it could have a very promising fall ahead if all the pieces fell into place correctly. But that was an outlook that seemed so easy to decipher back in winter 2020. Since then, social activism, the NCAA Transfer Portal, and namely the novel coronavirus pandemic dramatically altered the outlook of the 2020 offseason and the regular season ahead.

Texas rounded out the 2019 season with a record of 8-5 (5-4 Big 12) after beating the Utah Utes in the Alamo Bowl by the final score of 38-10. That at least gave the Longhorns some level of momentum heading into the 2020 offseason, which was much needed given their seven win finish to the regular season.

Even with the decent finish to the 2019 campaign, head coach Tom Herman was still in a position where he had a changeover much of his coaching staff. Texas turned over both coordinator positions and most of their position coaches earlier in the offseason. That could bring a significant change to the outlook of the 2020 season as is.

At the moment, the Longhorns are trying to ramp up for the supposed kick off of the 2020 season. The planned start to the 2020 regular season schedule is on Sep. 5 at home against the South Florida Bulls. But who knows what will change before then in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

What we do know now is that Texas is planning to fill Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium 50 percent to capacity and the coaching staff is getting ramped up very fast for the 2020 season during mandatory summer workouts. There are some significant injuries that the Longhorns have to deal with in the midst of summer workouts, though.

Here’s a look into the three most crucial injuries to watch moving forward to key Longhorns players for the rest of the offseason.