– Texas has offered a handful over prospects over the last week or so.

Spring Woods (TX) ’20 DE Vernon Broughton

Lakeland (FL) ’20 RB Demarkcus Bowman

Madison Prep (LA) ’20 ATH Joel Williams

Covington Catholic (KY) ’20 TE Michael Mayer

We will have some more info on these guys as we get in contact with them. Don’t expect too much movement from any of the new offers as they are 2020 recruits and their recruiting process is just starting to heat up. – (Andrew)

– It’s impossible to schedule a summer recruiting event and have it on the weekend where nothing is going on with recruits. The same can be said about Texas’ recruiting event this past weekend. The Pylon 7on7 championships in Atlanta took place over the weekend. It kept some recruits away from Austin that would have likely made it in otherwise.

Some of those guys are…

– CB Jeffrey Carter: Just named Texas to his Top 4 after the Longhorns seemed out of it for awhile. Wants to play with his cousin, DT Taurean Carter (who visited Texas this weekend) and the only big offer they have in common is Texas.

WR Dylan Wright: A guy who looked like a big Texas lean awhile back is exploring all of his options. Texas A&M has made a big push recently and gotten him on campus twice this summer. Would have been nice for Texas to get him back on campus and around some other commits/top targets.

S Jalen Catalon: A guy who is trending towards Texas. Wants to make a decision later on in the process though. But having him around the commits and the coaching staff this weekend could have possibly sped up the timeline a bit

– 2020 RB Zachary Evans: One of the top running backs in the ’20 class, was not able to make it to the event due to travel issue as we had been reporting all week. Evans has been to campus many times and we expect him to make several more trips to Austin prior to his commitment down the line. It would have been a boost to get him on campus with a bunch of the other 2020 kids. – (Andrew)

– Texas did host a solid group of 2019, 2020, and 2021 recruits on Saturday for their “Heat Wave” summer recruiting event. Here are some quick hitters from the weekend. And there will be plenty more updates from this event coming this week.

– Out of the guys we had on the visitor list, Duncanville (TX) ’20 ATH Ja’Quinden Jackson was the main one who didn’t make it in for the event.

– Texas landed George Ranch (TX) DE Peter Mpagi as the event concluded on Saturday.

Texas offered Mpagi on Thursday, and this recruitment was pretty much over after that happened. Mpagi actually told me on Tuesday that he wasn’t going to be at Texas over the weekend because he was going to be on a Northwestern official visit. Like I said, the Texas offer quickly changed everything.

– The Javonne Shepherd visit saga is over, finally. He visited Texas and Texas A&M over the weekend. And he told reporters after the event that Texas is his number one school right now.

Looking for my home .! Decisions Decisions Decisions 🤫 pic.twitter.com/T03TRY8P47 — ⁷⁶ᴊᴀᴠᴏɴɴᴇ (@JavonneShepherd) June 16, 2018

I talked to someone close to him and was told that Texas made a bigger impression over the weekend. The real laid back approach from the Heat Wave event was something a lot of the recruits liked, including Shepherd. Texas A&M is Texas’ main competition in this one, but I was told Georgia is the other school that’s really left in this one. Though I expect this to be a Longhorns-Aggies battle all the way. A summer decision is still on the table for Shepherd. And if that happens, I like Texas’ chances.

– One guy that I’m told Texas made a really nice move with is Mansfield Legacy (TX) DE Taurean Carter. He got to spend some one on one time with Oscar Giles after the visit concluded. I was also told that he and Peter Mpagi were together a lot during the event. I think Texas has taken the lead in this one, and that can’t hurt their chances with elite CB Jeffrey Carter. Who would like to play college football with his cousin, Taurean, and he just named Texas in his Top 4.

– ’20 QB commit Hudson Card was making the rounds with some 2020 targets for Texas. Building relationships and doing some recruiting. Two guys I was told he was around a lot were ATH Mookie Cooper and WR Demond Demas. Two elite play-makers on the offensive side of the ball in 2020. I will have more on those two later this week.

– Texas looks like the clear leader for ’20 OT Jaylen Garth. He added a Texas offer recently, and two other huge ones from Alabama and Ohio State. Though I was told Texas QB commit, and his high school teammate, Roschon Johnson is helping the Longhorns out a lot in this one. And he showed Garth why he thinks Texas should be his home this weekend.

– Trinity Catholic (TX) S Lewis Cine and Wekiva (FL) OLB Rian Davis officially visited Texas over the weekend. Both were at the Heat Wave event and stayed in Austin through Sunday. I was told that Texas “hit it out of the park” with Davis, and they definitely moved up his list. I’m looking to speak with him soon following his visit, as he’s heading back to Florida today. Will plans to speak with Lewis Cine tomorrow, so we’ll have an update then. – (Andrew)