Texas Football: 4 disappointing blue chips ready to breakout in spring

Al’Vonte Woodard, WR

All of the talent and depth present for Sark and second-year wide receivers coach Andre Coleman in the Longhorns receiving corps could make for an exciting offense to watch on the Forty Acres this fall. Texas has a receiving corps and tight end room lined with former four and five-star recruits that are just waiting to get their chance to shine in the spotlight.

Although, there will be a lot of change on the way for this group of wide receivers once again this year. Rising junior and senior wideouts like Al’Vonte Woodard, Marcus Washington, Jake Smith, etc. have now seen three different offensive schemes under three different offensive coordinators, and two different head coaches.

The pair of juniors and former blue chip commits Woodard and Washington stick out in particular among the Texas wide receivers that are just waiting to break out in the right offensive scheme. But Woodard makes this list in particular thanks to just the quantity of time he’s been with this program already and how highly touted of a recruit he was.

Woodard is about to go into his fourth year with the Longhorns, but he’s only played in bits and pieces of seven games in his career to date. In those games he has played in thus far, he’s only registered seven catches for 62 receiving yards (8.9 yards per catch) and no touchdown catches. Considering that Woodard has zero drops, zero fumbles, and only one penalty called against him in his career, he’s just waiting to make more of an impact for the Longhorns.

Coming out of Lamar High School in Houston, TX, during the 2018 recruiting cycle, Woodard ranked as the nation’s No. 104 high school prospect, No. 20 wide receiver, and No. 11 prospect out of Texas (247Sports Composite).