Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian have done a great job recruiting talented players to help key areas of the roster on both sides of the ball from the NCAA Transfer Portal over the past four years. In the past few offseasons, Texas has taken the quality over quantity approach regarding pursuing key players in the transfer portal to upgrade the roster.
Which former Texas football transfers turned into the biggest stars at other schools?
In the past four years, the Longhorns are one of a single-digit number of P4 schools that haven't once had 12 portal commitments in a single transfer cycle class. The only offseason that the Longhorns had a double-digit number of portal commitments from last year, when Sarkisian and Texas signed a dozen transfers.
Roster management and player development for the NFL Draft have been major successes for Sarkisian and staff in the past few years at Texas. It's very infrequent that you see the Longhorns lose a key starter on either side of the ball to the transfer portal.
That said, the Longhorns have lost plenty of talented players who were going to find bigger roles at other FBS schools in the past few years in college football. Texas has become a tough place to earn reps on the two-deep at any position group.
Here are the six best former Longhorns players who have transferred from Texas in the past half decade.