Texas Football: Tarik Black looks like a beast in fall practice

The Texas football program has to be happy with how the look of the receiving corps shaped up heading into the 2020 regular season.

Fans of the Texas football program are really starting to now get their first look at what the former Michigan Wolverines graduate transfer rising senior wide receiver Tarik Black could bring to the table if the season holds up for this fall. Black was the sole get out of the NCAA Transfer Portal for head coach Tom Herman and the Longhorns so far this offseason, and he was a big one to add key depth to the receiving corps.

Texas was lacking for proven depth in the receiving corps at the outset of the offseason. They had to move the former five-star Cuero wide receiver recruit Jordan Whittington back to his original position from running back, and moved around former four-star tight end recruit Malcolm Epps on the depth chart yet again.

The 6-foot-3 and 220 pound former often injured Michigan wide receiver is hoping for a more fortunate campaign in 2020 after landing on the Forty Acres. He never got to play in a full season while playing in Ann Arbor for the Wolverines, and only got to play in six games combined during his first two years of his college career.

In his 17 games played in his three-years at Michigan, Black registered 40 catches for 507 receiving yards and two touchdown catches. His most productive season of his career to date came last year, when he registered 323 receiving yards on 25 catches, for a single receiving touchdown. He’s averaged a hair under 13.0 yards per catch in his career thus far.

The good news for the Longhorns is that Black looks really good in his brief practice stint in training/fall camp thus far. In what we’ve seen from the Texas Football official Twitter page so far in fall practice, Black was looking like an absolute beast against the opposing defensive backs on his team.

Texas is going to really need Black to come to the forefront of the more experienced players in this receiving corps heading into the 2020 season. He’ll be counted on along with the likes of rising sophomore speedster Jake Smith and the sizable junior Brennan Eagles, to lead this receiving corps in 2020.

We should also be watching out for the type of impact that Whittington, redshirt sophomore Joshua Moore, and true sophomore Marcus Washington are able to make this fall. But at this point, Eagles and Black are the two most experienced receivers on this year’s Longhorns team.

As it stands now, Texas appears to be set to open up the 2020 season at home on Sep. 12 against the UTEP Miners out of Conference-USA. But a lot is up in the air right now in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and not just for the Longhorns.