Texas Football: 3 recent visitors the Longhorns could land this spring

The spring visit season is really about to pick up for head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Texas football program as the recruiting trail heats up in late March. In one week, Texas will host its second Junior Day visit weekend of the offseason thus far.

The first Texas Junior Day took place on the weekend of Jan. 21, and it was a pretty resounding success for the Longhorns in terms of the impression it made on some priority recruits in the 2024 and 2025 classes.

Texas will be looking to replicate the type of impression that the Junior Day festivities made on the top priority visitors in January when it hosts more key targets in the 2024 and 2025 classes next weekend. Per an Inside Texas visitor list posted earlier this week (paid content), there are already at least 20 visiting recruits expected to visit for Junior Day next weekend.

More visitors are likely to be added to the list in the coming days too.

While next weekend’s Junior Day festivities will be an important marker on the Longhorns’ recruiting timeline this spring, there are some other recent visitors worth noting during the last couple of months.

Recent priority visitors that Texas football could have on commitment alert this spring

With that in mind, here’s a look at three recent visitors for the Longhorns that Sark and his staff could land this spring.

Alex January, DL

A top defensive line target for Bo Davis and the Longhorns in the 2024 class in the last six months or so is the rising four-star Duncanville product Alex January. The sizable 6-foot-4 and 325-pound blue-chip defensive lineman is someone that has a ton of attention from the Longhorns staff in the last few months.

January is a Texas legacy and he and his family have some really great relationships with the Texas coaches. He’s already made one trip to the Forty Acres in 2023, which came during the Junior Day on the weekend of Jan. 21.

And January is now set to make a return trip to Austin, which will be an official visit, in late June.

Davis and special teams coordinator/tight ends coach Jeff Banks (the coaches spearheading this recruitment) have done a nice job making January feel like a top priority, despite the plethora of DL offers that the Longhorns have sent out to recruits in the 2024 class. In fact, if I had to name a frontrunner at the moment in this recruitment, Texas would probably be it.

Texas probably has the best relationships with January and his camp and he’s potentially even going to make another visit to Austin this spring unofficially. If January does wind up making it to campus next weekend for the second Junior Day of 2023, that is a great sign for Texas’ standing with the in-state defensive lineman.

Given that January is expected to make a decision before the start of his senior season this fall, he could be someone to watch for Texas to start sealing the deal with in the near future.