Texas Football: 3 biggest whiffs in the 2023 recruiting class

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Jalen Hale, WR

There were two significant misses that Sark, former wide receivers coach/passing game coordinator Brennan Marion, and the Longhorns had at the wide receiver position in the 2023 class. Those two wide receiver misses on the recruiting trail in the 2023 class for the Longhorns included the talented four-star Longview product Jalen Hale and the speedy four-star Langham Creek product Jaquaize Pettaway.

Hale ultimately signed with the Alabama Crimson Tide over Texas and the Texas A&M Aggies last year. Meanwhile, Pettaway picked the Oklahoma Sooners over Texas last offseason.

But Hale was the bigger of these two misses on the recruiting trail at the wide receiver position in the Longhorns 2023 class. Hale very well could be considered the top priority that the Longhorns had at wideout last fall.

A few weeks before Hale’s late September decision date, Texas looked like the school that had a lot of the momentum in this recruitment. But you can’t ever count out head coach Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide when they put their foot on the gas with a top recruit such as Hale.

Missing out on Hale to Alabama wound up leaving Texas with an extra wide receiver spot in the 2023 class alongside Cook and four-star Aldine Eisenhower (TX) product Ryan Niblett.

Texas was able to fill that last remaining spot at the wide receiver position in the 2023 class with a commitment from the former four-star Louisville Cardinals pledge and St. John Bosco (CA) product DeAndre Moore Jr. Sark and the Longhorns staff flipped Moore from Louisville and signed him on the second day of the Early Signing Period in December.