Texas Football: 3 new 2024 offers the Horns are prioritizing this summer

This week kicks off a huge visit season for Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian on the recruiting trail this summer. The month of June will see a few dozen official visitors make their way to the Forty Acres in the next few weeks, along with even more unofficial visitors.

Official visit season will begin for Sark and the Longhorns literally on the first of June when the touted four-star Laguna Beach (CA) tight end Ryner Swanson makes the trip to Austin. Texas will then have a couple of weeks where the focus will be more on the 2025 and 2026 visitors.

The big unofficial visit weekends will take place starting on June 3, when Texas is set to host more than two dozen visiting recruits for the Elite Camp. June 3 is one of the days that could be telling of how the big boards are shaping up early on for the 2025 and 2026 recruiting classes.

A little more than a week after the Texas Elite Camp, the first week of official visits will kick into high gear starting on June 15. And then, the biggest official visit weekend will take place starting on June 23, with big names coming to the 40 such as the elite Duncanville edge rusher Colin Simmons and five-star Lake Belton wide receiver Micah Hudson.

We should shed some light on some of the newer offers for the Longhorns in the 2024 class that aren’t getting as much attention late this spring that are now firmly on the staff’s radar.

New 2024 offers to watch for Texas football this summer

Here’s a look at three new 2024 offers that the Longhorns are prioritizing heading into the summer.

Danny Okoye, EDGE

Of the three offers on this list for the Longhorns in the 2024 class, the one that had an offer from Texas for the longest is the top-ranked recruit out of Oklahoma for this cycle, four-star NOAH Homeschool edge rusher Danny Okoye. The 6-foot-4 and 245-pound Tulsa, OK, native Okoye received an offer from Texas more than four months ago.

But it’s only recently that Texas began to ramp up the communication with the blue-chip EDGE recruit out of Oklahoma. Co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Pete Kwiatkowski and the Longhorns have done a nice job selling Okoye on the fit for him in this front seven (which he recently stated to Inside Texas in an interview last week).

"“I want to see if it lives up to the hype. I also want to hear how they think I would fit into the defensive scheme and how they would build my NFL potential.”"

Okoye is a very gifted athlete that has pretty insane quickness off the edge. He’s got good hands and some of the quickest feet you’ll find among the top blue-chip edge rushers in this class.

In many regards, though, there are some questions that Okoye would have to answer when he takes his talents to the next level. Okoye is homeschooled and thus plays some of the most competitive football in the 7v7 circuit. The jump from that to Power Five competition will be lofty.

Also, Okoye still needs to add some weight to his lengthy 6-foot-4 frame. If he were to hypothetically play at the jack position for the Longhorns, he would need to add at least 20 more pounds to get his body right to compete in the SEC.

All in all, Okoye is too gifted of an athlete with too much upside at a position of need for the Longhorns to ignore. Texas will get its shot when Okoye makes the official trip to Austin from June 16-18. PK and the Longhorns will need to capitalize on this opportunity after Texas made the cut for Okoye’s top 10 a couple of weeks ago.