Skip to main content
Texas

Texas' bowl practice schedule sets up perfectly for big visit weekend

Eric Nahlinby: Eric Nahlin12/12/22
On3 image
Ja'Tavion Sanders (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

With National Signing Day moved back a week, myriad Texas recruiting targets and commitments will be able to see the team in full swing when they visit Austin this weekend. That activity should help replace the hustle and bustle lost to the end of the semester.

[Get FOUR MONTHS of Inside Texas Plus for $1!]

Texas returned to the field for practices on Friday and continued throughout the weekend. This week they’ll resume all team activities (meals, lifting, running, etc) except practice, until they again take the field Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

In a healthy program your best recruiters are current players, many of which have pre-existing relationships with recruits in the classes behind them. Practices are a much more intimate, though less intense setting than visits that occur on game weekends. Of course after practice there is plenty of time to fraternize.

Further, the weekend practices allow for the coaches to hit the road during the week to see recruits one last time before the dead period begins on December 19th, just two days before National Signing Day.

Needless to say, this is a big week for recruiting.

Uncommitted prospects expected for December 17

Ka’Morreun Pimpton, TE, Fort Worth (Texas) North Crowley – potential official visit

Jelani McDonald, LB, Waco (Texas) Connally – official visit

Tyler Scott, CB, Mableton (Ga.) Pebblebrook – official visit

Texas commitments confirmed for December 17

The majority of Texas commitments are expected to be in Austin the last visit weekend prior to signing day. This is the #AllGasNoBrakes list so far.

Cedric Baxter Jr., RB, Orlando (Fla.) Edgewater

Ryan Niblett, WR, Aldine (Texas) Eisenhower –*maybe

Spencer Shannon, TE, Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei

Payton Kirkland, IOL/OT, Orlando (Fla.) Dr. Phillips – official visit

Connor Stroh, IOL, Frisco (Texas) Wakeland

Jaydon Chatman, OT, Killeen (Texas) Harker Heights

Sydir Mitchell, DL, Oradell (N.J.) Bergen Catholic

Dylan Spencer, DL, Houston (Texas) C.E. King – *maybe

Colton Vasek, EDGE, Austin (Texas) Westlake

Derion Gullette, LB/EDGE, Teague (Texas)

S’Maje Burrell, LB, Fort Worth (Texas) North Crowley

Derek Williams, S, New Iberia (La.) Westgate

Of course all eyes remain on whether or not Denton Ryan five-star linebacker Anthony Hill will visit Austin, College Station, or anywhere else.

Back to recruits making the best recruiters, Hill has a handful of strong relationships with current Longhorns, including former teammates Ja’Tavion Sanders and Austin Jordan.

You may also like

Arch Manning
Inside Texas

A Field With A Ball

RT Young•07/31/25

I wrote this article last summer, but with fall camp underway and college football just 30 days from kickoff, it felt fitting to run it back. A lot...