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Texas Football: Ja’Tavion Sanders reaffirms Longhorns commitment

By Andrew Miller

Lubbock Coronado's Tucker Gideon breaks up a pass intended for Denton Ryan's Ja'tavion Sanders in the end zone. Gideon was called for pass interference on the play. Ryan beat Coronado 56-14 in the Region I-5A Division I area playoff game Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, at ACU's Wildcat Stadium.Dr 9 Pi In Ez
Lubbock Coronado's Tucker Gideon breaks up a pass intended for Denton Ryan's Ja'tavion Sanders in the end zone. Gideon was called for pass interference on the play. Ryan beat Coronado 56-14 in the Region I-5A Division I area playoff game Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, at ACU's Wildcat Stadium.Dr 9 Pi In Ez /
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The 2021 Texas football recruiting class looks to be confident that they can retain the commitment of 5-Star ATH Ja’Tavion Sanders.

There are questions surrounding how firm the commitment of the top ranked prospect in the 2021 Texas football recruiting class is following the 2022 class very much falling apart at the end of last month. The top ranked commit in the 2021 recruiting class for Texas and fourth-year head coach Tom Herman is the elite five-star Denton-Ryan athlete Ja’Tavion Sanders.

This 6-foot-3.5 and 220 pound highly touted product hailing out of Denton, TX, predominantly plays at the weak-side defensive end position. But Denton-Ryan High School does play him on both sides of the ball, along with a tight end/wide receiver role on offense.

Sanders committed to the Longhorns 2021 class way back on Sep. 8, 2019, so he’s been around for a long time now. He ranks as the nation’s No. 16 2021 high school prospect, No. 2 athlete, and No. 2 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranks him as the nation’s No. 17 high school prospect, No. 2 athlete, and No. 3 prospect out of Texas.

He held offers from more than 20 other schools other than that from the Longhorns. The other highlighting schools on his offer sheet includes the Alabama Crimson Tide, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, TCU Horned Frogs, and Texas A&M Aggies.

What shook some confidence in the commitment of Sanders to the Longhorns was the sequence of events last month that saw his teammate and the highly coveted four-star Denton-Ryan athlete Billy Bowman Jr. re-open his recruitment. Bowman Jr. has now flipped his commitment from Texas to the rival Sooners.

And to add more questions to the status of Sanders’ commitment to Texas, the 2022 recruiting class really fell apart last month after the decommitment of the elite five-star Southlake Carroll pro-style quarterback Quinn Ewers.

But in a report from Horns247 (paid content) on the evening of Nov. 9, Sanders looks to have his commitment to Texas reaffirmed. It sounds like Sanders is focusing more on the remainder of his high school football career, and he’s having a really big senior campaign at Denton-Ryan. Opening up his recruitment isn’t a priority for him right now.

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According to the 247Sports Team Composite Rankings, the 2021 Texas recruiting class ranks at No. 17 in the nation and remains behind Oklahoma in the second spot in the Big 12. The Early Signing Period is less than a month and a half away, and hopefully the Longhorns can get Sanders signed down by then.

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