Texas Football: 4-Star WR Bryant Wesco the perfect boundary target

One of the more recent offers from the 2024 Texas football recruiting class is the highly touted four-star Midlothian wide receiver Bryant Wesco. Texas offered the talented 6-foot-2 and 180-pound wideout on Feb. 1, 2023.

Depending on the recruiting service that you look at, Wesco is one of the two or three highest-rated wideouts out of the state of Texas in the 2024 class that head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns have now offered.

Wesco is one of the hotter wide receiver recruits in the 2024 class heading into the spring this offseason. He is a rapid riser in the last few months for just about every major recruiting service.

In the 247Sports Composite, Wesco went from the No. 432 recruit in the nation in the 2024 class on Sep. 30, 2022, to No. 91 in the most recent update on Feb. 16.

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He ranks as high as the No. 27 recruit in the nation in the 2024 class from On3.

So, what led to the big rise in the national recruiting rankings in the 2024 class for Wesco in the last few months, and what makes him such a good fit for Sark and the Longhorns at boundary receiver?

Texas football offers a rapid riser in the 2024 class in 4-Star WR Bryant Wesco

Wesco’s rapid rise in the recruiting rankings heading into the spring is largely thanks to three factors.

The first, and most obvious, factor that started his rapid ascension in the national recruiting rankings was his big junior season at Midlothian High School. Wesco had a breakout junior campaign at Midlothian, where he registered a career-best 1,160 receiving yards (a whopping 20 yards per catch), 58 receptions, and 14 touchdown catches (per MaxPreps).

Wesco became a real game-breaker on the outside that could go up and get really any ball thrown his way. He’s incredible in contested 50/50 situations on the boundary. And Wesco’s deep threat ability proved to be something that opposing defenses could not sleep on.

Another big factor that led to Wesco’s rise heading into the spring just has to do with his insane physical tools. Since he started to fill out his lengthy 6-foot-2 frame in the last couple of years, Wesco has continuously put his impressive athletic gifts on display in the camp and combine setting, along with on the high school football field.

Here’s a recruiting evaluation that On3’s Billy Embody had on Wesco from the “Always Open – Flight Skillz Camp” in DFW on Feb. 21, 2022.

"“A big body that still needs to add mass, Wesco is an athletic freak. He’s made some highlight reel catches and has an insane vertical. He’s fairly smooth running and will continue to develop.”"

That evaluation came right around the time that Wesco received his first offer from the Texas Tech Red Raiders and head coach Joey McGuire early last offseason. And it was really the beginning of the ascent of Wesco’s recruitment that hasn’t stopped in the last year.

He just continues to impress physically and with his play on the field in every setting he appears (i.e. camp, combine, 7v7, etc.).

The impression that Wesco has made on the media in the football recruiting space and on coaches and college scouts around the country is the final factor that has led to his rapid ascent on the national recruiting scene in the last few months.

In 2023 alone, Wesco has picked up more than a dozen FBS offers. Some of the top schools that have offered him in the last couple of months are the Penn State Nittany Lions, Oregon Ducks, Texas A&M Aggies, LSU Tigers, and Texas.

As Wesco racked up more and more big-time Power Five offers, there were a lot of schools that didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity to get in on this recruitment before it was too late. That has led to a snowball effect in terms of the national attention and growing offer sheet that Wesco’s recruitment has brought to the table in the last couple of months.

Moreover, in the last few weeks, I was impressed by what I saw from Wesco in the 7v7 circuit with Texas Threat. He put on a show for Texas Threat at Pylon 7v7 Dallas, catching a few nice balls that I saw from 2025 All Saints Episcopal quarterback Kelden Ryan.

Wesco was also solid, making a few highlight reel catches for Texas Threat at Hero 7v7 Austin a couple of weekends ago.

This is just more proof that shows me that Wesco is the real deal. His ability to go up and get contested balls over the defender while also threatening opposing defenses in the deep and intermediate passing game with some solid route-running makes him a pretty dynamic weapon on the outside.

He really does just eat the defender’s lunch on a consistent basis on contested balls, especially in the end zone.

From what I’ve seen of him, Wesco has more speed than you would expect out of a vertically-gifted outside receiver. He’s able to get some real separation on intermediate and deep routes. And Wesco can turn on the burners to pick up yards after the catch, which makes him dangerous in space.

How Wesco fits at Texas

Wesco really is an ideal fit at boundary receiver in Sark’s offense. He’s got all the tools necessary to stretch the field on the boundary while also possessing the aforementioned ability to go up and get those tough contested balls over opposing DBs.

Yet, one major reason why I think Wesco really stands out as someone that would be a tremendous fit on the boundary in Sark’s offense is his ability to get separation from opposing DBs.

Not only does Wesco have the ability to speed away from opposing DBs after the catch, but he also can get separation running his routes. His route-running ability is often underrated when you look at most of the evaluations that are out there since his recruitment really took off last year.

Wesco’s combination of size/athleticism and separation ability before and after the catch would be extremely dangerous in Sark’s offense. This skill set would allow Sark to get him involved in a number of different spots pre-snap to confuse the defense.

He could also utilize a variety of different route concepts to keep opposing DBs on their toes.

The way that Wesco could stretch the field on the boundary might be one of the most valuable dynamics he could bring to this offense, though. Having someone that can be weaponized at almost every level of the field in front of the line of scrimmage, while posing the threat to take the top off opposing defenses would really open up Sark’s passing playbook to a great extent.

In certain ways, Wesco is similar to a slimmer version of former USC Trojans wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster. Wesco has the ability to out physical and outjump opposing corners on 50/50 balls while remaining more elusive than most would expect from a boundary receiver in the open field. Both those attributes are similar to the skill set of Smith-Schuster, who Sark coached up at USC in the mid-2010s.

I’m not saying that this will be the recruiting pitch that Sark, new wide receivers coach Chris Jackson, and the Longhorns will give to Wesco. But it’s always helpful to have the previous player development and production from a wideout that has some components of his game similar to Wesco when the staff is trying to sell the blue-chip in-state recruit on the Forty Acres this offseason.

Where Texas stands with Wesco

It does sound like the Texas offer definitely moved the needle for Wesco. He recently mentioned in an Orangebloods interview that he wants to visit Texas in the near future after receiving the offer earlier this month. It sounds like the March Junior Day would be a potential target to date to watch in terms of when Texas could get Wesco on the books for an unofficial trip this spring.

Although, Texas is facing an uphill battle in this recruitment as Wesco already has built strong connections with the Oklahoma Sooners and TCU Horned Frogs, among other schools that have offered him. He’s got good relationships built with TCU wide receivers coach Malcolm Kelly and OU wide receivers coach Emmett Jones.

It’s also worth noting that Bryant’s sister, Bailey Wesco, plays volleyball at Oklahoma.

The combination of his sister attending OU and the longstanding relationship he’s built with Jones has generated a lot of momentum for the Sooners in this recruitment in the last couple of months.

The relationship that Kelly and the Horned Frogs staff have with Wesco will also continue to keep TCU hanging around in this recruitment.

A few other schools to watch that have made recent moves in this recruitment are LSU, Oregon, Clemson, and Nebraska.

We will continue to monitor this recruitment as Texas will look to get Wesco on the books for a spring visit. Texas already is inching up to a dozen visitors on the books for that Junior Day weekend in March.