Texas Football: 3 reasons the Longhorns will decimate Kansas

Hudson Card has destroyed opponents like Kansas already this season

With redshirt junior quarterback Casey Thompson dealing with a thumb issue still heading into the Kansas game, it would make sense if most of the snaps this weekend went to sophomore Hudson Card.

In the loss to the Iowa State Cyclones and head coach Matt Campbell last weekend on the road in Ames, Sark elected to pull Thompson in the first half in favor of Card. It was a reversal of what happened in the bad road loss to the Arkansas Razorbacks back on Sep. 11.

This was a warranted switch too. If Sark was going to pull the plug on Card when he did in the loss to Arkansas, he had to do the same with Thompson in the loss to Iowa State. Now, we once again have a quarterback competition on our hands on the Forty Acres.

And while the quarterback depth chart this week shows no set-in-stone starting quarterback, the fact that Thompson is essentially on the injury report could provide some insight into which of these two signal-callers will get more reps.

It also makes sense to let Thompson rest up before the West Virginia game if Sark wants him fully healthy and available then.

We’ve seen Card do good things for this Longhorns offense before against weaker defenses like that of the Jayhawks. Card played well against the two Group of Five opponents he got snaps in this fall (Louisiana and Rice). And he did fare a little bit better statistically against Iowa State last weekend than Thompson did.

If Sark wants a chance to both build Card’s confidence and get Thompson healthy for the final stretch run of the season, it makes more sense to give the bulk of the snaps this weekend to the former of those two. And either one should easily be able to take care of business against a weaker Kansas defense that has allowed multiple games with more than 45 points scored against them.