Texas Football: 5 players with a lot to prove in summer workouts

With the Texas football program now fully in the midst of summer conditioning/workouts, with some new enrollees having joined the team, things are rolling less than 100 days from the start of the 2021 regular season. Texas is set to open up the regular season at home on Sep. 4 against Louisiana.

That will be the second time that new head coach Steve Sarkisian will take to the field at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium for some type of game action with this program. The first was in the spring football game back on April 24.

Moreover, summer workouts usually isn’t a time of the offseason that gets much hype in the media. Given that there are not actual contact drills or any game action taking place in the middle of the offseason, that does make sense.

Summer workouts could separate the few from the many for Texas football in 2021

But there are still some looming storylines that will be important to watch for the rest of the summer months. Texas needs to get their guys ready for the 2021 season under a completely new coaching staff. And this is the second year in a row that the Longhorns essentially turned over the entire coaching staff.

Last offseason, former head coach Tom Herman stuck around in his position, but a lot of the staff around him changed.

Now, Sark will be looking to take this program to new heights, and do what Herman was not able to. That task for Sark is something that started back in winter workouts more than four months ago and will continue on throughout the offseason.

With that in mind, here’s a look at five Longhorns players with a lot to prove in summer workouts.