Texas Football: 3 huge 2021 prospects Tom Herman is likely to whiff on

Which prospects should Longhorns fans prepare for disappointment from that are targets of Tom Herman and his 2021 Texas football recruiting class?

Roughly one week ahead of the start of the Early Signing Period for fourth-year head coach Tom Herman and his 2021 Texas football recruiting class, there needs to be a jolt coming in the near future. Texas had way too much of a pedestrian run on the recruiting trail in the last couple of months.

There’s a good case to be made that Herman and the Longhorns actually lost a lot more since the start of the 2020 college football season in their 2021 and 2022 recruiting classes than they gained. Since early October, Texas lost a huge commitment from the elite four-star Denton-Ryan athlete Billy Bowman Jr. in the 2021 class. Bowman Jr. wound up flipping his commitment to join Lincoln Riley and his Oklahoma Sooners 2021 recruiting class.

And in the Longhorns 2022 class, the end of October was actually worse to Herman than the beginning of the month was. Texas lost a potentially program changing commitment in their 2022 class with the elite five-star Southlake Carroll pro-style quarterback Quinn Ewers back on Oct. 28. Ewers ultimately wound up flipping his commitment to join head coach Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeyes 2022 class.

Then Texas also lost a commitment from their initial pledge in the 2022 class, following the decommitment of Ewers, from four-star Lancaster wide receiver Phaizon Wilson.

Essentially the lone recent addition to either of the Longhorns next two classes came from the former Baylor Bears commit and four-star DeSoto defensive tackle Byron Murphy II.

Considering the lack of positive results for Herman and the Longhorns for either the 2021 or 2022 class of late, which other prospects should fans prepare themselves to lose out on for this cycle ahead of the Early Signing Period?