Texas WR Parker Livingstone lighting up San Jose State in red-hot start

Longhorns wide receiver Parker Livingstone is off to a blazing start against San Jose State today, with two big touchdown catches in the 1st quarter.

The 6'4", 191-pound speedster from Lucas, TX torched the Spartan defensive backs on his first score of the day when SJSU's safety slipped after Livingstone made the catch down the left sideline. He took the pass 83 yards for a touchdown, which gave Longhorn Nation a breath of fresh air after a disastrous start to the game by Texas' offense.

It was also Texas' longest touchdown pass since the 2017 season.

Livingstone's next touchdown catch came on a perfectly excecuted red zone play by Steve Sarkisian. He did an excellent job of creating a 1-on-1 matchup for Livingstone on San Jose State's smaller cornerback by motioning DeAndre Moore Jr. across the formation. This quick adjustment also forced the defender to play out of position, as he didn't have time to re-set with inside leverage on Livingstone.

At the snap, Livingstone ran a quick slant in front of the cornerback and found a nice little window for Manning to hit him with his second touchdown catch of the day.

I'm not 100% sure if this was an RPO or not, as it looked like Arch Manning was looking at the CB, which is rarely the read on those types of plays. Most of the time, safeties and linebackers are the "read" players for designed RPO's because their movements open up passing lanes at the second-level. If it was in fact an RPO, then Arch was reading the WILL here, who got sucked inside by the backfield action.

Either way, it was a beautifully designed and executed play by the Longhorns, and really gave the team a morale boost that it needed incredibly bad at the time. Let's see if anymore scores are produced by the duo today, who also happen to be roomates.