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For the longest time, Byron Murphy thought he would make his money running over defenders. “I always thought I was going to be a running back in the National Football League,” Murphy told The Dallas Morning News. “That’s where my heart is. I used to love watching Adrian Peterson, and I used to love Marshawn Lynch. I used to try to model my game after them.” Instead, he ended up developing into one of the most dominating interior defensive linemen in the 2023 and 2023 college football seasons at Texas. In 2023, he was named a 2023 second-team All-American by the Associated Press and Sporting News and was the 2023 Big 12 Defensive Lineman of the Year. “With my style of play, I feel like nobody can play like me,” he said. “Nobody can do the things I do. I feel like I’m one of a kind. My tape speaks for itself.”

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If Texas fans were excited about the DFW talent in the 2026 cycle, the 2027 class raises the bar even higher. The defensive line group in the

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Inside Texas’ 2027 Defensive Line Pipeline: DFW Stars Linked by Trench Warfare

I caught up with K’Adrian Redmond, one of the top defensive tackles in the 2027 class, after DeSoto’s College Media Night. Since transferring from

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K’Adrian Redmond Recruiting Update: 2027 DeSoto DT Talks Texas, A&M, Notre Dame, SMU

Texas may have four defensive tackles drafted by the NFL in the coming days. That's been fairly normal for the program over the last few years as

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Texas' defensive tackle platoons for 2025

College football can be really simple at times.  While it's a game of 11-on-11 with outsized impact from just one of the 22 players on the field at

The two biggest remaining questions for Texas

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The Texas Longhorns All-Mid 2020s team

Kelvin Banks, Jahdae Barron, and Matthew Golden put together phenomenal performances at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, and as a result has Texas set

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Banks, Barron, and Golden put Texas on the verge of joining elite NFL draft company

The train Texas was taking while trying to get back to becoming “Defensive Backs University” has been paused again to change engineers. Passing game

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Replacing Terry Joseph will be Steve Sarkisian's most important offseason move

The 2024 NFL Draft marked the first time since the 2007 Draft that two Longhorns were picked in the first round. Byron Murphy was picked 16th overall

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Texas football aims for three first-round picks in the NFL Draft, a feat not seen since 1980

One of the great achievements of the Texas defense in 2024 was building an absolutely devastating 3rd down defense to match the big success of the

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Can Texas build another elite 3rd down defense?

Playing defensive tackle for the University of Texas isn't easy. There are reasons it took as long as it did for many of the last few waves of

How the rebuilt Texas defensive line fits together

That's right folks, it's about to be NFL Draft season.  [BOOKMARK: Check Inside Texas daily for FREE Texas Longhorns content]  While the final two

Four Longhorns listed as top-50 prospects for the upcoming NFL Draft

The Texas Longhorns' 2021 recruiting class is more conventional than the others in that there's no need to do the math associated with COVID-19

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Closing the book on Texas' 2021 recruiting class

After a breakout season for the Texas Longhorns in 2023, head coach Steve Sarkisian sent a program-record 11 players to the 2024 NFL Draft, a number

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The Texas Longhorns' 2024 draft class posted strong rookie seasons in the NFL

For the second straight year, the Texas Longhorns had their season end in the College Football Playoff semifinals, this season falling at the hands

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PFF's highest graded Longhorns at each position from the Ohio State game

Seattle Seahawks (9-7) rookie defensive tackle Byron Murphy II recently experienced a welcome to the NFL moment, though not one on the field.   It

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Seahawks rookie Byron Murphy II pranked into thinking he was stuck with $155K dinner bill

For the first three years of his tenure as Texas defensive coordinator, Pete Kwiatkowski had future NFL draft picks at his disposal at defensive

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Pete Kwiatkowski returned to his schematic roots to turn the 2024 Texas defense into a juggernaut

For as long as I've watched Texas Longhorns football, defensive tackle has never been an issue. When became a Texas fan in the late 90s, Mack Brown

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What does healthy recruiting look like for Texas at defensive tackle?

The Texas Longhorns had another elite showing on defense against the Arkansas Razorbacks last Saturday and have maintained their place as the No. 4

How the Texas Longhorn defense is achieving elite results

What's something you didn't see Saturday?  No, I'm not talking about bombs over the top in the passing game by the Texas offense. Let's be positive

The Texas Longhorns defense checks off an important box

Seattle Seahawks (2-0) rookie defensive tackle Byron Murphy exited Sunday's Week 3 home contest against the Miami Dolphins (1-1) after suffering a

Seahawks DT Byron Murphy leaves to locker room with injury vs. Miami Dolphins

Quinn Ewers' first career road start on October 22, 2022 at Oklahoma State didn't quite go as planned, as the Longhorns left Stillwater with a 41-34

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Quinn Ewers, Texas football's road warrior

Texas made a very clear statement in their Week 2 matchup with the defending National Champions from Michigan, dominating in a 31-12 rout.  Steve

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Steve Sarkisian took the podium today to talk about the Texas Longhorns football team and their upcoming season, which begins this coming Saturday at

Steve Sarkisian

What Steve Sarkisian said about week 1 of the Texas Longhorns 2024 season

One of the recurring questions of the offseason for Texas has been whether or not Steve Sarkisian actually has the program in position to "reload"

Can Texas reload with NFL talent in 2024?

Vernon Broughton had to stop and think for a second on Tuesday when asked what the difference is between his former defensive line coach Bo Davis and

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Kenny Baker brings technical expertise to a DT room oozing with confidence

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