Texas Football: Predicting 2021 commits before Early Signing Period

3) Predicting Texas football commits ahead of ESP

Especially if the Longhorns are keeping Herman around as their head coach heading into the 2021 season, then they need to do their best to land a commitment from the highly coveted four-star Cy-Fair running back LJ Johnson. This talented 5-foot-10 and 205 pound rusher looks like a man among boys playing for Cy-Fair High School this season.

Johnson might be the best possible prospect that Herman and the Longhorns could land for the rest of this cycle. Since they firmly lost out on the commitment of four-star Denton-Ryan athlete Billy Bowman Jr. a few months back (to the Oklahoma Sooners), they really need to do their best to get Johnson over into their 2021 class.

Boasting one of the lengthier and more impressive offer sheets of any blue chip prospect in this cycle, Johnson is a very highly sought after commodity. Other highlighting schools on his offer sheet includes the Alabama Crimson Tide, Texas A&M Aggies, Oklahoma, LSU Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Michigan Wolverines, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio State Buckeyes, Tennessee Volunteers, and USC Trojans.

Moreover, Johnson ranks as the nation’s No. 40 2021 high school prospect, No. 3 running back, and No. 4 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranks him as the nation’s No. 40 high school prospect, No. 3 running back, and No. 5 prospect out of Texas. Both classifications have Johnson ranked very close to being a five-star prospect.