Texas Football: 5 blue chip recruits Tom Herman didn’t develop

5) Texas football blue chips Herman didn’t develop: Cameron Rising

As the most highly touted quarterback signee in the Longhorns 2018 recruiting class, the now Utah Utes redshirt sophomore signal caller Cameron Rising was looking like a possibility that he could eventually take over as the starter after Sam Ehlinger. Rising never got a single snap in game action, though, during his time on the Forty Acres.

After just one year with the program, Rising wound up putting his name in the NCAA Transfer Portal. It wasn’t long before he landed with head coach Kyle Whittingham and Utah out in the PAC-12. Texas did get to face Utah in the Alamo Bowl last year, but Rising didn’t take any of the snaps behind center.

The 6-foot-2 and 220 pound California native Rising was a promising four-star recruit that was part of that insanely potent Longhorns 2018 signing class. The Newbury Park High School product hailing out of Newbury Park, CA, ranked as the nation’s No. 247 2018 high school prospect, No. 11 pro-style quarterback, and No. 33 prospect out of California (247Sports Composite).

The two quarterbacks that signed with the Longhorns in their 2018 recruiting class were both blue chip prospects. Rising was one of them, as was the current Longhorns redshirt sophomore Casey Thompson. The Oklahoma native Thompson was a four-star dual-threat quarterback, that ranked a bit lower than Rising.