Texas Football: 4 Sooners that the Longhorns recruited hard

Bryson Washington, S

Turning the attention back to the secondary for the Sooners, among players that the Longhorns recruited hard back in the day, the Houston-area product Bryson Washington is another young and rising defensive back for defensive coordinator Alex Grinch in Norman. The former blue-chip recruit and C.E. King High School product isn’t going to start for Oklahoma this weekend, but he could still get some reps.

Washington has reps in four different games over the course of the last two seasons. The sophomore safety really only got to play this season against FCS Western Carolina. He doesn’t have any other defensive snaps to speak of from any other game.

Nonetheless, it wasn’t all that long ago that Texas and Oklahoma were two of the schools that the 6-foot-2 and 195-pound Washington was deciding between. This was a recruitment that largely boiled down to the pitch that former Texas safeties coach (now with USC) Craig Naivar and Grinch could make to Washington.

In fact, the final official visit that Washington took back during the 2019 offseason was with the Longhorns. He took an official visit with Texas on June 21, 2019, only to commit to Oklahoma during the July 4 holiday weekend that followed.

Although Washington had limited snaps with the Oklahoma secondary in the last two years, he does still have 10 combined tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, one interception, and one fumble recovery under his belt.