Texas Football: No. 1 2024 RB Jerrick Gibson looking at summer OV

The spring and summer visitor lists are starting to come together for Texas football recruiting in the 2024 and 2025 classes this offseason. Texas and head coach Steve Sarkisian are building toward something big on the recruiting trail again this summer.

And one of the biggest visits that Sark and the Longhorns staff were looking to get on the books for this offseason was just reported on the evening of Feb. 22. A report from Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports on Feb. 22 (paid content), notes that the nation’s No. 1 running back recruit in the 2024 class, five-star IMG Academy product Jerrick Gibson, is looking to set an official visit to Austin on the weekend of June 24.

This is part of a group of summer visits that Gibson and his family are looking to take to a group of blue blood programs, mainly in the SEC. He is also reportedly looking to visit the Georgia Bulldogs (June 2), Alabama Crimson Tide (June 9), and Tennessee Volunteers (June 16), prior to potentially taking an OV to Austin in late June.

Gibson and his camp are also apparently looking at some other tips during the spring to see the Oklahoma Sooners, Ohio State Buckeyes, and Tennessee.

Texas football reportedly looking at a late June OV date with 5-Star RB Jerrick Gibson

If Gibson does wind up locking in this official visit date to Austin on the weekend of June 24, it would be his second trip to the Forty Acres of 2023. That would of course be assuming that he doesn’t make an impromptu visit to Austin during the spring.

Gibson was on campus for Texas’ Junior Day weekend in January.

His first unofficial trip to Austin came last summer when he visited on the same weekend that the nation’s No. 1 running back in the 2023 class took his trip to the Forty Acres. The No. 1 running back in the 2023 class, five-star Orlando Edgewater (FL) product Cedric Baxter Jr. would obviously go onto commit to Texas not too long after his mid-June official visit to Austin last summer.

Running backs coach Tashard Choice deserves a ton of credit for where Texas is at in this recruitment heading into the spring. Choice has a great relationship with Gibson, which actually dates all the way back to his time on staff as the running backs coach with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

And Choice’s track record of recruiting at the running back position speaks for itself, between landing Baxter in Texas’ 2023 class and other big names at Georgia Tech such as Alabama star Jahmyr Gibbs and Jam Griffin (now at Oregon State).

Texas currently holds commitments from three recruits in the 2023 class, highlighted by the highly touted four-star Houston Clear Lake athlete Hunter Moddon. Choice and the Longhorns don’t have any running backs committed to the 2024 class at the moment.