Texas Football: 3 defensive standouts from the closed spring scrimmage
Alfred Collins, DL
All the fuss around the Forty Acres of late on the defensive side of the ball surrounds senior defensive lineman Alfred Collins. The former elite five-star recruit and ultra-gifted 6-foot-5 and 315-pound interior defensive lineman might finally be living up to the insane potential he showed coming out of high school.
It’s worth noting that Collins was the second-biggest standout on the Texas defense mentioned by a team source in Nahlin’s scrimmage report this weekend.
Collins was noted to be a real consistent force along the interior defensive line, being disruptive both as a pass rusher and a run stopper in the middle. It sounds like Collins’ consistency is helping Pete Kwiatkowski and the Longhorns give the offensive line a lot of issues in team drills the last couple of weekends.
What really stands out to me in terms of Collins stepping up this spring is the consistency. Hearing Collins and consistency mentioned in the same sentence so often is the real difference between this spring and the last few offseasons for the former elite defensive line recruit.
Collins had the most consistent season of his collegiate career last year, registering career highs in defensive grade and pass rush grade.
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Collins is proving to be that third piece that Texas needs to have a formidable top group of interior defensive linemen. Texas needed to replace the production it lost from two standout senior interior defensive linemen in Keondre Coburn and Moro Ojomo, and Collins could be that guy to step up in 2023.