Texas Football: 3 biggest winners from summer workouts for Longhorns

In a few weeks, Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian will kick off fall camp. The first day of fall camp for Texas is Aug. 2, exactly one month before the 2023 regular season is set to kick off. Texas begins the regular season at home at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Sep. 2 against the Rice Owls at 2:30 p.m. CT.

The regular season opener is also exactly 50 days from the writing of this article on July 14.

With Big 12 Media Days now in the books, it feels like the season is just around the corner. Sark and the Longhorns have high expectations this fall, being picked atop the Big 12 media preseason poll for the first time in over a decade.

Texas also had five players that received preseason All-Big 12 honors, tied for the most of any team in the conference. That includes senior linebacker Jaylan Ford receiving the preseason Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors.

At Big 12 Media Days, it felt like the Longhorns were confident and focused. That attitude of getting right down to business matches what we’ve heard about the tone of summer workouts on the Forty Acres.

Big winners from summer workouts for Texas football

Here’s a look at three of the biggest winners from summer workouts this offseason for the Longhorns.

Warren Roberson, DB

Texas signed one of the best defensive back recruiting classes in the last decade during the 2023 cycle. And one of the late-cycle additions for the Longhorns in the 2023 class that looks like a really underrated get so far is the former four-star recruit out of Red Oak High School, true freshman safety Warren Roberson.

This is not the first time Roberson’s name came up when talking about the standouts from summer workouts for the Longhorns. Roberson was mentioned before as a “pleasant surprise” among the summer enrollees in the strength and conditioning program.

From a physical tools perspective, Roberson looked like one of the better athletes among the 2023 signees. And his knowledge of the game was also displayed in the film room and in 7v7 work this summer.

One of the most impressive nods that Roberson received this summer came directly from redshirt sophomore quarterback Quinn Ewers during Big 12 Media Days. Inside Texas/On Texas Football reported from Big 12 Media Days this week that Roberson was one of the three defensive back standouts this summer mentioned by Ewers. The other two were freshman cornerback Malik Muhammad and sophomore cornerback Austin Jordan.