Texas Football: Predicting next 2022 commit after massive DL day

Brenen Thompson, WR

Yet another blue-chip target of the Longhorns that has this school among his two or three finalists at this point is the speedy and elusive four-star Spearman (TX) wide receiver Brenen Thompson. Emerging to be one of the top wide receiver targets of what’s remaining for the Longhorns 2022 class, it will be important to win over Thompson this fall.

Texas has a pretty clear set of top four wide receiver targets at this point of the recruiting cycle. Those four names to watch include four-star Shazz Preston, Thompson, five-star Evan Stewart, and five-star Kevin Coleman.

It’s hard to see a prospect more likely to land with Texas in that group of four wideouts within the next four or six weeks than Thompson, though. Thompson already has Texas in his group of top three schools. The other two schools to watch in his top three are the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Texas A&M.

The good news here with Thompson is that Texas is the lone school that has him on the books right now for an official visit this fall. He’s set to officially visit Texas when the team faces the Rice Owls at home on Sep. 18.

Second-year wide receivers coach Andre Coleman and new special teams coordinator/tight ends coach Jeff Banks are making good progress with Thompson of late. The two most recent expert 247Sports Crystal Ball Predictions project Thompson’s commitment to go to Texas.

Two of the schools that looked like frontrunners at one point in time with Thompson were Oklahoma and the Clemson Tigers. But with both of those schools getting eliminated in the latest round of finalist cuts from Thompson, this looks like a recruitment that is now Texas’ to lose.