The 2021 Texas football recruiting class continued to move their momentum in the right direction this weekend with 3-Star WR Jaden Alexis.
The momentum kept on rolling for the 2021 Texas football recruiting class with another commitment on Aug. 8. Texas landed this aforementioned commitment over the weekend from the skilled three-star Monarch wide receiver Jaden Alexis. This speedy 5-foot-11 and 175 pound Pompano Beach, FL, native now becomes the 17th commit in the 2021 Texas recruiting class.
Texas is on an absolute roll right now on the recruiting trail, especially at the wide receiver position. The Longhorns landed their first commitment in the 2022 recruiting class late last month, with highly touted four-star Lancaster, TX, wide receiver Phaizon Wilson. Texas has also landed a commitment from three-star Warren Easton wide receiver Casey Cain in the 2021 class.
Cain is the lone other wide receiver commit in the 2021 class now, along with Alexis after his Aug. 8 pledge.
The Longhorns definitely needed some depth help in the receiving corps in this class. Texas didn’t have the best haul at wide receiver in the 2020 signing class. If Texas can get one more talented wideout in the 2021 class prior to the Early Signing Period (or National Signing Day if it still means landing a blue chip caliber commit), then it would round things out the right way.
Moreover, Alexis chose the Longhorns over offers from 35 other schools. The other highlighting schools on his offer sheet includes the Alabama Crimson Tide, Utah Utes, Virginia Cavaliers, Wisconsin Badgers, Florida State Seminoles, Duke Blue Devils, Georgia Bulldogs, Miami Hurricanes, Michigan Wolverines, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Penn State Nittany Lions, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, and South Carolina Gamecocks.
The latest bulk of offers that Alexis received before committing to Texas came back in April 2020. He got offers from the Purdue Boilermakers, UCF Knights, and Wisconsin, in the month of April alone. His recruitment was trending up prior to his commitment to Texas this weekend.
Alexis ranks as the nation’s No. 368 2021 high school prospect, No. 60 wide receiver, and No. 60 prospect out of Florida (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 rankings slotted him as the No. 49 wide receiver and No. 46 prospect out of Florida.
What Alexis brings to the table for the Longhorns is a very agile and speedy skill position weapon that could make an impact both on offense and special teams. He timed in at roughly a 4.4 second 40-yard dash time and a 10.75 second 100-meter dash.
He’s got insane elusiveness in the open field and can shake just about any opposing defender with the right amount of room. Alexis is also versatile enough, a good enough route runner, and has consistent hands to be a deep threat, inside receiver, or a possession target in intermediate routes.
This is really a perfect fit for the offensive scheme run by head coach Tom Herman and recently hired offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich in this spread playbook.
According to the 247Sports Team Composite Rankings, the 2021 Texas recruiting class ranks at No. 13 in the nation and remains in the top spot in the Big 12 just ahead of the Oklahoma Sooners. They now hold 17 commits, with Alexis potentially gaining that fourth star before too long.
Texas is keeping the arrow trending up for their 2021 class. They need to keep this trend going heading into the 2020 season, just like Herman was able to do for the Longhorns heading into the 2019 campaign.
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