Texas Football: Longhorns have a top 3 2022 class after landing 4-Star DL
A huge stretch of a couple of weeks on the trail for the 2022 Texas football recruiting class has brought about a ton of success along the defensive line. This defensive coaching staff is doing wonders on the recruiting trail for the 2022 class along the front seven of late.
The latest commitment to join the Longhorns 2022 class for the likes of new head coach Steve Sarkisian and co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Pete Kwiatkowski (among others on this staff) is the four-star Hewitt-Trussville (AL) defensive lineman Justice Finkley. Texas landed a big commitment from the Alabama native Finkley late in the afternoon of Sep. 9.
Sark and the Longhorns now have 21 commits in the 2022 class after bringing Finkley into the mix this week. Exactly one-third of those commits are now blue-chip defensive linemen/edge rushers too.
Just in the past two weeks alone, Texas has landed commitments for the defensive front from blue-chips J’mond Tapp, Aaron Bryant, Jaray Bledsoe, and Finkley.
What adds even more excitement about landing the commitment of Finkley is the fact that he’s now one of the three highest-rated prospects in the Longhorns 2022 class now. Texas is now actually tied with the Penn State Nittany Lions and Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the lead for the 2022 recruiting cycle among all programs in the tally of blue-chip commits.
Landing 4-Star DL Justice Finkley puts the 2022 Texas football recruiting class at No. 3 for Steve Sarkisian this fall
Texas is now up to 14 blue-chip commits in the 2022 class, and with some other valuable and underrated prospects in the mix.
According to the 247Sports Team Composite Rankings, the 2022 Texas recruiting class now ranks at No. 3 in the nation and in the top spot in the Big 12 ahead of the Oklahoma Sooners. Since Sark and the Longhorns staff started going on this massive spree of landing blue-chip defensive commits, this group vaulted up the national class rankings.
Texas’ spot in the national class rankings now puts it ahead of the likes of the Alabama Crimson Tide, Georgia Bulldogs, Clemson Tigers, LSU Tigers, Texas A&M Aggies, Oklahoma, etc. Penn State and Notre Dame are the only two programs that sit ahead of Texas in the national class rankings now.
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If Texas is able to convert on some of the top remaining targets of the 2022 class, like five-star wide receiver Evan Stewart and five-star offensive guard Devon Campbell, this group could very well finish in the top three in the national class rankings for the cycle. The last time that Texas finished up in the top three in the national class rankings came during the 2019 cycle under former head coach Tom Herman.