This weekend, Texas football hosted a handful of targets from the winter NCAA Transfer Portal for visits on campus. Two of Texas's portal visitors play along the defensive front, and can possibly help add proven depth along the front seven for Pete Kwiatkowski for 2025.
Texas football looking to add more from the transfer portal to bolster key groups on each side of the ball for 2025
The other portal visitor the Longhorns had on campus in the past 48 hours or so is former FCS Houston Christian Huskies, Baylor Bears, and Texas State Bobcats grad transfer quarterback CJ Rogers.
Rogers gave his commitment to the Longhorns while he was on campus for a visit on Friday (Jan. 3). He adds depth and an emergency quarterback with experience playing Division I college football after Texas is expected to lose two upperclassmen in the QB room, Quinn Ewers and Cole Lourd.
Texas has also signed three portal commitments from the winter transfer window, including former Purdue senior grad transfer defensive tackle Cole Brevard, Arkansas sophomore linebacker Brad Spence, and Utah senior punter Jack Bouwmeester.
The Longhorns are still in the market for defensive tackle help and a few other positions they're looking for immediate impact transfers on each side of the ball for the upcoming offseason.
Here's a prediction of the Longhorns' first portal commitment of the 2025 calendar year.
Marvin Jones Jr., EDGE (Florida State)
It was reported a few days ago that the Longhorns hosted former Florida State Seminoles and Georgia Bulldogs junior transfer edge rusher Marvin Jones Jr. Jones visited Texas and the Oklahoma Sooners on consecutive days this past Thursday (Jan. 2) and Friday (Jan. 3).
Texas wasn't originally expected to look in the transfer portal during the winter window for help at the EDGE position. But the possibilities of Texas looking for more depth and competition in the EDGE room, and redshirt junior Trey Moore maybe entering the 2025 NFL Draft next spring, add to the reasons why it could make sense for the Longhorns to push for EDGE help in the portal with Jones on campus over the weekend.
Jones had originally picked Georgia over Florida State as a top-30 prospect coming out of high school in Fort Lauderdale, FL, at American Heritage. He spent two seasons at Georgia as a rotational edge rusher/outside backer who could specialize in different blitz pass rush looks along the defensive front seven and helping around the line of scrimmage in run defense.
At Florida State this fall, Jones registered a career-high four sacks, six tackles for loss, 16 quarterback pressures, and 17 defensive stops over 11 games.