3 former 5-Star Texas recruits that have yet to live up to the hype
Jordan Whittington, WR
The most accomplished player thus far for the Longhorns among the former five-star recruits on this list is the Cuero High School product and rising redshirt junior wide receiver Jordan Whittington. Considering the fact that Whittington spent so much of his first three seasons in college injured, his track record isn’t terrible thus far.
Last season, Whittington racked up 26 catches for 377 receiving yards and three touchdowns. And since the latter portion of the 2020 campaign, Whittington has put up more than 600 total yards and four touchdowns. That’s not a terrible stretch considering those numbers only came over the course of a little under a dozen games.
The key for Whittington this year will just be staying healthy. That was the biggest issue in his first three years on the Forty Acres.
Moreover, this was a perennially underachieving wide receiver class during the 2019 recruiting cycle. By the standard set by most of the wideouts in the 2019 recruiting class around the college football landscape, Whittington actually has a pretty impressive resume under his belt thus far. That is at least the case when he’s actually been healthy.
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If you didn’t sign with the Ohio State Buckeyes as a wide receiver with their 2019 recruiting class (i.e. Garrett Wilson and Alabama’s Jameson Williams), you likely haven’t lived up to expectations in college. But there is still plenty of time for the likes of Whittington, Theo Wease, Dominick Blaylock, Jadon Hasolwood, etc. to live up their five-star status in college.