Texas Football: 4-Star CB Jaylon Guilbeau could be next to go

What are the odds that the 2022 Texas football recruiting class is able to hang onto its final commit, 4-Star Memorial CB Jaylon Guilbeau?

To say that what head coach Tom Herman and his 2022 Texas football recruiting class is experiencing in the last 24 hours or so is disaster doesn’t come close to describing the impact it will have on this program. Herman needs to get it together somehow before things get even worse on the field and on the recruiting trail for him.

In just the last 18 hours, the Longhorns lost commitments from four-star Lancaster 6-foot-4 and 210 pound wide receiver (and their first member of the 2022 recruiting class) Phaizon Wilson and namely the elite five-star Southlake Carroll pro-style quarterback Quinn Ewers. At this point, the Longhorns are down to just one commit in their 2022 class.

The pendulum has swing completely in the opposite direction for Herman and the Longhorns as the worst has happened for their 2022 class. They lost out on a blue chip commit at a potential position of need, and the prospect that was their first commit in the 2022 class, and a possible generational talent at quarterback. And that all happened in what seems like the blink of an eye.

And now the lone remaining commit in the Longhorns 2022 class is the highly touted four-star 5-foot-11.5 and 175 pound Memorial cornerback Jaylon Guilbeau. And while Guilbeau is the last commit standing in this class, it’s hard to tell how long that could last for.

Guilbeau potentially foreshadowed the direction that he’ll take his recruitment with a post on his Twitter timeline on the night of Oct. 28 (just around when Ewers announced his decommitment from Texas). He tweeted out “I have a lot of thinking to do” after the Ewers decommitment, which likely is not any good news for the Longhorns.

Moreover, Guilbeau ranks as the nation’s No. 145 2022 high school prospect, No. 15 cornerback, and No. 22 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranks him as the nation’s No. 62 high school prospect, No. 9 cornerback, and No. 11 prospect out of Texas.

Outside of his scholarship offer from Texas, Guilbeau has 15 schools on his offer sheet. The other highlighting schools on his offer sheet includes the Alabama Crimson Tide, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Penn State Nittany Lions, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, and USC Trojans.

If the Longhorns are not able to hold onto the commitment of Guilbeau, the complete and utter failure of Herman and his coaching staff to retain any semblance of a 2022 class will be finished. Texas needs to do their best to hang onto the last remaining commit of this faltering 2022 class.