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Texas has 13 players named to the preseason All-SEC team

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Tre Wisner
Tre Wisner (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

The SEC Media Days poll is out with the predicted order of finish and preseason All-SEC.

SEC Media is evidently quite bullish on the Texas Longhorns in a few different regards. First of all, the predicted order of finish and choices for champion proved to make Texas the favorite. In particular, the Longhorns are a narrower favorite to finish first in the regular season but a heavy favorite to win the SEC title.

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You can feel the seething anger from Athens through your screen noticing how much hype the Longhorns are generating despite losing both at home and on a neutral site against the Bulldogs just last season.

The Bulldogs can perhaps console themselves with the fact the entire first team of the special teams section are all Georgia players.

Overall Texas had 13 players selected between the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams.

Here’s the list of named Longhorns:

PlayerPositionTeam
Tre WisnerRunning back1st team
DJ CampbellOffensive line1st team
Colin SimmonsRunning back1st team
Anthony HillLinebacker1st team
Michael TaaffeDefensive back1st team
Ryan WingoWide receiver2nd team
Malik MuhammadDefensive back2nd team
Jack BouwmeesterPunter2nd team
Arch ManningQuarterback3rd team
Jack EndriesTight end3rd team
Trevor GoosbyOffensive line3rd team
Trey MooreDefensive line3rd team
Will StoneKickoffs3rd team

It’s good to see Stone finally get the recognition he deserves for his kickoffs into the opposing end zone.

Obviously All-SEC teams struggle to differentiate stats from context or do more than acknowledge recognizable names or proven stats rather than projecting breakout players of the future. Wisner stands out here, last season he put up some solid stats owing to being the most trustworthy running back left after a rash of injuries and subsequently benefitting from a veteran offensive line and offensive system built around run/pass conflict. Taaffe is another who had solid stats playing in a system that put him in position to make a lot of plays while surrounded by some brilliant coverage players, although Taaffe is on another level as a player than Wisner.

Texas’ new contributions to this list are players who were either obvious sidekicks in 2024 (Manning, Wingo, Goosby, Simmons, Muhammad) or proven transfers (Endries, Bouwmeester).

If we were going to take a stab at which players are going to end up on this list who aren’t currently well known by any aside from recruitniks and message boarders, who would stand out?

I’d suggest the following players may end up on the postseason list.

DeAndre Moore: It’s actually sort of surprising he wasn’t already on the list, but even with three teams there’s a lot of talent in this league so it’s hard to cut through. Moore is a big play receiver with elite speed who will be a primary target in a big play offense that will be lead by a bomb-throwing quarterback.

Cole Hutson: I’m not entirely sure whether Hutson emerges as a well above average center who brings some high level power and mobility to that position, or if he ends up sliding back outside to guard in order to ensure good pass protection from inside pressure. If it’s the former, he may stand out more.

Jelani McDonald: The versatile safety may play multiple positions for the Longhorns next year and is probably going to end up around the ball quite a bit. McDonald actually played quite a bit last season but he didn’t post a lot of obvious counting stats to grab the attention of media scrolling through returning stat pages (one tackle for loss, one interception, one pass break-up).

Ethan Burke: The sack numbers may go up now Burke isn’t playing second fiddle to Barryn Sorrell and his ability as a player has gone up every year since he arrived on campus.

Ideally an interior Texas defensive lineman would also emerge, my guess would be Maraad Watson as he has far and away the best existing film of any interior D-lineman on the Texas roster. Standing out as a D-tackle in the SEC is as hard as it gets though.

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Who would you add or remove?

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