Texas Football: 3 transfer portal losses that will hurt in 2021
1) Texas football portal losses that will hurt in 2021
Keaontay Ingram, Running Back
The most recognizable name that the Longhorns lost to the transfer portal already this offseason is one that looked like he was going to make this decision near the end of the 2020 regular season. Former highly coveted four-star recruit and junior running back Keaontay Ingram didn’t even get to play in the full 2020 campaign before officially putting his name in the portal early this offseason.
The writing was clearly on the wall for the Longhorns that they could be losing Ingram to the portal. He had a rough season purely in terms of decreasing efficiency and fumbles lost. And he had a lot of his role taken up over the course of the last two years by the running back duo of sophomore Roschon Johnson and true freshman stud Bijan Robinson.
That doesn’t take away from how much Ingram did product on the Forty Acres in his three years playing for this team. In his three seasons playing for Texas, Ingram registered more than 1,800 rushing yards (5.3 yards per carry), 11 rushing touchdowns, 515 receiving yards (7.7 yards per catch), and six touchdown catches.
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After playing in just half a dozen games for the Longhorns last fall, Ingram took his talents to join head coach Clay Helton and the USC Trojans in the PAC-12. Ingram was one of multiple former Longhorns that landed with the Trojans out of the portal this offseason. That group also included former four-star recruit and freshman safety Xavion Alford.