3 takeaways from Texas’ bounce-back win over Kansas State

Roschon Johnson continues to be a Kansas State killer

The saving grace for Sark and the Longhorns in this game was one of the backup running backs that was pretty underutilized, especially in wildcat formations, skill position weapons throughout the regular season. But Sark and the Longhorns were essentially forced to give junior running back Roschon Johnson a heavy workload on this day.

And Johnson certainly rewarded the newfound faith from Sark in this game. He came up with more than 180 rushing yards on a carry-high 31 carries (5.8 yards per carry), with one rushing touchdown. He also had one catch for 10 yards and no receiving touchdowns.

In fact, Roschon took 16 snaps as the Longhorns’ quarterback in this game. It is notable that the Longhorns used him more often in this way in this win over Kansas State as Roschon is a former converted quarterback.

Moreover, Roschon also came up with an impressive 11 missed tackles forced, 125 yards after contact, and 11 first downs in this game.

This now gives Roschon more than 370 total yards from scrimmage (359 of which are rushing yards), 7.2 yards per carry, four rushing touchdowns, 27 missed tackles forced, and roughly 275 yards after initial contact in three outings against the Wildcats in his career. He was truly the MVP for the Longhorns in this game.

I still wasn’t the biggest fan of the lack of attempts to get the former transfer redshirt sophomore running back Keilan Robinson out in open space in this game. But at least Sark gave Keilan a few more carries in this game, albeit he came up with just 25 rushing yards on nine attempts.