Texas Football: 4-Star Longhorns 2021 CB commit arrested
One of the most highly rated commits in the 2021 Texas football recruiting class, a 4-Star CB, was arrested in Dallas County this weekend.
News emerged from multiple reports (including Dallas County public arrest records) that a four-star cornerback commit in the 2021 Texas football recruiting class was arrested on the morning of Dec. 12. Details of this arrest in Dallas County were not released to the public yet, but this will continue to be a monitored storyline heading out of the weekend.
The particular Longhorns commit that was reportedly arrested over the weekend was four-star Kimball cornerback Ishmael Ibraheem. This blue chip product hailing out of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex committed to fourth-year head coach Tom Herman and the Longhorns back on June 15, 2020.
There’s also no details yet pertaining to this situation and how it could impact the scholarship offer Ibraheem has from Texas. As we are just three days away from the start of the Early Signing Period, this news does come at a poor time for Ibraheem and the Texas program both.
This 6-foot-1 and 175 pound DB held offers from just shy of three dozen schools. Other highlighting schools on his offer sheet included the Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, Michigan Wolverines, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas A&M Aggies, and USC Trojans.
Ibraheem ranks as the nation’s No. 147 2021 high school prospect, No. 11 cornerback, and No. 25 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranks him as the No. 19 cornerback and No. 39 prospect out of Texas.
Per the 247Sports Composite rankings, Ibraheem is the second highest rated commit in the Longhorns 2021 class as of the evening of Dec. 13. The highest rated commit in the 2021 class is the elite five-star Denton-Ryan athlete Ja’Tavion Sanders.
According to the 247Sports Team Composite Rankings, the 2021 Texas recruiting class ranks at No. 18 in the nation and remains in the second spot in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma. They currently hold 17 commits in their 2021 class, with the latest addition being the former Baylor Bears four-star defensive tackle pledge Byron Murphy II.
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Texas has just one other cornerback commit currently in their 2021 class, with four-star John Muir product and California native Jamier Johnson. The lone other defensive back commit in the 2021 class is four-star Kennedale safety JD Coffey.