Texas Football: Predicting Longhorns next commit after Colin Simmons
Texas football landed its prized prospect in the 2024 recruiting class on Aug. 10 when the elite five-star Duncanville edge rusher Colin Simmons committed to UT. This is the recruiting win that head coach Steve Sarkisian and this staff needed upon leaving the Big 12 for the SEC in 2024.
Simmons, the No. 1 ranked edge rusher recruit in the nation in the 2024 class in the 247Sports Composite and On3 Industry Ranking, picked Texas over the LSU Tigers, Miami Hurricanes, and SMU Mustangs. He is the 16th recruit to commit to the Longhorns in the 2024 class and the first five-star.
This type of commitment should open the floodgates for the Longhorns on the recruiting trail in the 2024 and 2025 classes heading into the fall. Sark and the Longhorns staff built a lot of momentum on the recruiting trail during the summer official visit season.
Who will be the next to commit to Texas football in the 2024 class after 5-Star EDGE Colin Simmons?
But that might not compare to what adding Simmons to the 2024 class can do for Texas in terms of getting other top-priority blue-chip recruits committed in the next few months. Here’s a prediction of Texas’ next commitment in the 2024 class after adding its highest-priority recruit in Simmons on Aug. 10.
Dominick McKinley, DL
The next big commitment date to watch for the Longhorns among priority targets in the 2024 class will be Sep. 1, with the elite five-star Lafayette (LA) Acadiana defensive lineman Dominick McKinley. Texas is one of the top schools for the No. 1 ranked defensive line recruit out of Louisiana in the 2024 class, along with the Oklahoma Sooners, LSU Tigers, and Texas A&M Aggies.
Simmons committing to Texas will make it more attractive for McKinley to jump in this class when he announces on Sep. 1. The thought of what Texas could do with a defensive front consisting of Simmons and McKinley alongside other big humans at defensive tackle, such as four-star Orlando (FL) Jones DL commit D’antre Robinson and true freshman DL Sydir Mitchell, is insane.
Moreover, Texas is already in a good spot with McKinley less than a month before his commitment date. We’ve mentioned multiple times on the site late this summer that Texas and Oklahoma are in the “pole position” in this recruitment heading into the fall.
Texas and Oklahoma both check a lot of the boxes for McKinley and his family in terms of what they’re looking for in a school on and off the football field. The Red River rivals also have some of the best relationships in this recruitment.
Bo Davis and the Longhorns are in as good of a spot as any school heading into the final few weeks before McKinley’s decision date.