Texas Football: Building out running back depth chart for 2020

Bottom of the depth chart

The running back depth chart for the Longhorns this year will really wind up going about six-deep, as long as injuries don’t take hold early in the season like they did last year. A lot of the bottom part of the depth chart at the running back position will depend heavily on how one of the names here is able to recover from a scary health incident last offseason.

6. Jaden Hullaby, Freshman

We start off the list with the former three-star athlete recruit and 6-foot-2 and 205 pound Mansfield Timberview product Jaden Hullaby. As a pretty versatile athlete with a ton of size and downhill running force, Hullaby could quickly work himself into a niche in this backfield. He just has to find his strong suits so that the coaching staff gives him more early playing time this season and next.

Hullaby could still get in those four games without burning his redshirt for his freshman campaign, and that rule could change this offseason if the NCAA so decides in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch out for Hullaby likely to make an impact by the beginning of his second or third-year on the Forty Acres.

5. Derrian Brown, Redshirt Freshman

That aforementioned Texas running back with the health scare last offseason is the former four-star recruit and Georgia native Derrian Brown. But if Brown is able to recover to the point where he’s able to get any game action maybe later in the 2020 season, then it would be great to see what he can do.

Brown did rank as one of the top 15 2019 running back prospects in the nation, so he does bring a lot of talent to the table for the Longhorns. It should just be a matter of time until we can tell what he’s able to do.