Texas Football: 3 biggest 2024 misses for Horns in recruiting this summer

Bryant Wesco, WR

Texas was late to the party for the elite five-star Midlothian wide receiver Bryant Wesco this spring. The Longhorns were one of the last Power Five schools to offer Wesco (specifically coming on Feb. 1, 2023) amid his big rise in the national recruiting rankings early this offseason.

Despite him being one of the top in-state wide receivers in the 2024 class, Sark, new wide receivers coach Chris Jackson, and the Longhorns didn’t take notice of Wesco until it was too late.

Texas did make a late push in this recruitment, including trying to get Wesco to campus for an official visit during the summer. But it was too little too late, as Wesco committed to Clemson over the Oklahoma Sooners, USC Trojans, LSU Tigers, TCU, and Texas in early June.

We’ve mentioned Wesco among the biggest recruiting misses for the Longhorns so far in the 2024 cycle, so I won’t detail what it means for Sark and Jackson heading into the fall.

But it is worth noting that Texas has picked up the pace elsewhere in wide receiver recruiting in the 2024 class this summer. Texas is one of the top schools standing out for the elite five-star St. Louis University (MO) wide receiver Ryan Wingo, along with Tennessee, Georgia, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the Michigan Wolverines.

247Sports director of football recruiting Steve Wiltfong entered a 247Sports Crystal Ball Prediction for Wingo to commit to Texas earlier this summer. And multiple Inside Texas experts/reporters recently all gave the Longhorns better than a 50 percent chance to win the race to land a commitment from Wingo in December.

Another big headline for the Longhorns in wide receiver recruiting in the 2024 class recently came from the pursuit of five-star Temple (TX) Lake Belton wideout Micah Hudson. Texas is back in contact with Hudson after it looked like he would commit to the Texas Tech Red Raiders earlier this summer but didn’t.