Texas football losses to transfer portal continue with DL Myron Warren

The Texas football program lost a sizable piece of the possible future of their defensive line on Aug. 7 with Myron Warren entering the portal.

The ups and downs for head coach Tom Herman and the Texas football program in the NCAA Transfer Portal only continued on Aug. 7 with the loss of former four-star recruit and redshirt freshman defensive end/defensive tackle Myron Warren. The transfer portal has claimed quite a few Longhorns players in the last few years.

Warren fits a trend of younger players, that are still talented, but further down the depth chart that entered the transfer portal at a pretty early point of their college career. But it is also unusual that a player that’s a rising redshirt freshman like Warren would enter the transfer portal on the exact day when fall/training camp began.

The report that Warren intended to enter the transfer portal first came from Chris Hummer of 247Sports on Friday evening. Warren was likely entering a year where he could’ve got some early playing time in his career, as Texas is about to endure some major starter turnover at the two defensive end spots heading into next offseason.

There was a good chance that Warren could’ve got some reps this fall behind rising senior starting defensive end Ta’Quon Graham, or transition to a different spot under the new scheme with defensive coordinator Chris Ash. This would be the first real significant game action that Warren got since landing on the Forty Acres, though.

The sizable 6-foot-2 and 270 pound Warren hails from Many High School in Louisiana. He ranked as the nation’s No. 289 2019 high school prospect, No. 17 strong-side defensive end, and No. 15 prospect out of Louisiana (247Sports Composite). The Top247 rankings slotted him as a top 170 high school prospect in the nation, and the No. 7 prospect out of Louisiana.

Warren did hold offers from 27 schools coming out of high school. The highlighting schools on his offer sheet included the Arkansas Razorbacks, TCU Horned Frogs, Kansas State Wildcats, Mizzou Tigers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Ole Miss Rebels, SMU Mustangs, Oregon Ducks, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, and Virginia Tech Hokies.

This is one of many notable losses to the transfer on the defensive side of the ball for the Longhorns this offseason. They did also lose the likes of rising junior linebacker Juwan Mitchell and junior defensive back Anthony Cook to the portal earlier in the offseason, but got them back to campus in the end.

But Texas did not wind up getting the likes of former JUCO transfer linebacker Caleb Johnson and rising redshirt senior cornerback Donovan Duvernay back to campus this offseason.

Texas is planning to open up the 2020 season on Sep. 12, with the UTEP Miners as their sole non-conference game. And they began training camp on Aug. 7, to get ramped up for the abrupt start to the 2020 college football season.