Texas football: 2024 signees who will have the biggest impact as freshmen

Xavier Filsaime, S

The crown jewel of the 2024 defensive back class for the Longhorns is the elite five-star McKinney (TX) safety Xavier Filsaime. Safeties coach Blake Gideon and the Longhorns flipped Filsaime from the Florida Gators earlier this week after he made a multi-day official visit to Texas last weekend.

While Texas got in on Filsaime's recruitment pretty late, offering him in early October 2023, there's no questioning the raw talent and athletic gifts he brings. Filsaime is an immediate impact safety who is just too good to keep off the field when he enrolls early at Texas for spring ball.

The 6-foot and 185-pound safety from DFW has blazing straight-line speed, posting 100-meter dash times just above 10.5 seconds in the last couple of years at McKinney High School. He's a lightning fast and rangy safety who brings excellent closing speed to the secondary.

Thanks to his combination of speed and explosiveness, there aren't many wideouts that Filsaime can't match up with in one-on-one man coverage.

Filsaime also likes to play physical. He can excel as a downhill safety in run defense. Filsaime also holds his own playing in space.

Texas has their two safeties of the future heading into the SEC in Filsaime and freshman Derek Williams Jr.