Texas football ‘pushing hard’ to win over 5-Star 2022 QB Maalik Murphy
The 2022 Texas football recruiting class is going to take a lot of work from the program’s new look coaching staff to build from the ground up this offseason. Texas is going to have to improve the results on the recruiting trail for the 2022 cycle, with the 2021 class disappointing for the most part in the end. Now former fourth-year head coach Tom Herman wasn’t able to deliver the results desired down the stretch last fall on the recruiting trail for his 2021 class.
And there’s not much time left at all for the newly hired head coach and former Alabama Crimson Tide offensive coordinator/Broyles Award winner Steve Sarkisian to improve what the 2021 recruiting class looks like ahead of National Signing Day. Texas is going to have to make up that ground for their 2022 class under Sark’s new staff this offseason.
One huge target that emerged for the Longhorns at the quarterback position in their 2022 class is also one of the most highly touted for this entire cycle. The elite five-star Junipero Serra pro-style quarterback Maalik Murphy is a potential target at the position for the 2022 class that could help make up for the loss a few months back of Quinn Ewers.
Fellow elite five-star signal caller and Southlake Carroll product Ewers wound up flipping his commitment from the Longhorns to join head coach Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeyes a few months back.
Moreover, Texas is reportedly making a big push (per Horns247, paid content) to win over more of the interests from the California native Murphy in the near future. Texas also reportedly re-offered him recently, which came after the commitment of the highly coveted four-star wide receiver Armani Winfield.
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Getting Murphy over with the 2022 class would be an immediate change of fortune for Sark and the Longhorns. The sizable 6-foot-5 and 225 pound quarterback has a big arm and tremendous potential for what he could do if he were to land on the Forty Acres.
Murphy ranks as the nation’s No. 30 2022 high school prospect, No. 2 pro-style quarterback, and No. 4 prospect out of California (247Sports Composite). And the Top247 ranks him as the nation’s No. 62 high school prospect, No. 3 pro-style quarterback, and No. 5 prospect out of California.
Now just shy of holding 30 schools on his impressive offer sheet, Murphy’s recruitment didn’t just recently pick up a lot of steam. He’s been a highly sought after quarterback target for a number of big time college football programs around the country for a good while now.
A few of the other highlighting schools on his offer sheet includes the Crimson Tide, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio State Buckeyes, UCLA Bruins, Oregon Ducks, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, and USC Trojans.
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According to the 247Sports Team Composite Rankings, the 2022 Texas recruiting class now ranks at No. 19 in the nation and remains in the second spot in the Big 12 behind the Oklahoma Sooners. The lone other commitment in the 2022 class, outside of the Texas native Winfield, is the four-star Memorial cornerback Jaylon Guilbeau.