2020 4-Star Wide Receiver | Troy Omeire | In-Person

– Super K

Recently, I had a chance to see 2020 wide receiver, Troy Omeire (Fort Bend Austin) in action. This was my second time in the past couple weeks seeing Omeire in-person. I saw him in practice last week.

When I saw him at practice, he was wearing his trusty Texas gloves. He was wearing them again last night. Apparently, he wears them all the time…like a good luck charm.

2020 TX WR, Troy Omeire (Fort Bend Austin) out here sporting the #HookEm gloves… Again. pic.twitter.com/meVpqzKezw — Super K (@SuperK_TFB) October 26, 2018

Omeire took an unofficial visit to Texas earlier this fall and says he plans to return again for a game, later this season. He doesn’t know, yet, which game but with only two home games left, it’ll be either Iowa State or West Virginia.

Not a ton to report in his recruitment. Texas is certainly in the top group for, he says. But it’s still early in his process and he doesn’t plan on narrowing things down, publicly, just yet. But again, when he does, I have little down Texas will be in it.

What I Saw…

One of the reasons, I’ve been wanting to see Troy this fall was to get a look at how well he runs in person. On film, I had some question marks.

But he answered those. He’s a very big wide receiver. At least 6’3, I’d guess. But he runs well. Very smooth. Long strider. But what I like is he doesn’t take long to get going. Troy comes off the line with a nice burst. He’s smooth in and out of his breaks. He plays a bit high and it’s hard for me to tell just yet what that’ll mean against defensive backs who will reroute him or press him. Still, there’s a lot to like about his feet and overall movement at that size.

***Fairly soft hands. He’s calm when the balls in the air. Looks like a natural pass catcher.

***One of the things I really liked seeing from him was his effort on the field. There was a particular play where, had the quarterback thrown the ball early enough, Troy probably goes for six. Quarterback hesitated against cover 2, came off Troy, targeted another wide receiver and threw an INT. That can be frustrating for a player. Troy didn’t throw his hands up in disgust or anything of the sort. Instead, he immediately sprinted back in the other direction to try to help bring down the ball carrier.

***Another thing that stands out is when his team needs a play, they go to him and he delivers. At the end of the game, they needed a touchdown and went for two to get their lead to seven. They went to him both times and he made both plays.

Watch him take a quick inside release, use his outside hand to get rid of his defender and separate.

2020 4-star WR, Troy Omeire (@TroyOmeire) with the go ahead TD… pic.twitter.com/Tc5FIDIigo — Super K (@SuperK_TFB) October 26, 2018

The next play was a slant for the two-point conversion and I will say he looks better on the inside routes right now.

***I did take note on a particular play where the defense was in cover 2, he ran himself into the safety a little. Cornerback gave him a soft reroute and then sunk inside so he had a lot of room to widen on the route.

Overall, the more I see Troy, the more I’m impressed. Again, this is a young man who is going to be a very big wide receiver at the next level who moves, fluidly and runs well. I’ll be interested in seeing him against more aggressive cornerbacks in the future.

Sunday “Shhh”

– Charlie S

🤫 — Bryan Carrington (@BCarringtonUT) October 28, 2018

You didn’t have to wait long for this one…

2020 offensive lineman Logan Parr out of Helotes, TX, O’Connor high school committed late last night as you are all well aware.

Parr is a very nice get at this stage for the 2020 class and will serve as a building block for offensive line recruiting in a cycle that will be vital for Texas to have a big haul on the line.

Oklahoma State Game Thoughts

– Darius Terrell

The sixth-ranked Longhorns (6-1, 4-0) travel to Stillwater at night, coming off of a bye week, for what has every look of a tough road conference game against Oklahoma State (4-3, 1-3) for their Homecoming weekend on national television. Texas has lost three straight to the Cowboys heading into this one.

If that weren’t reason enough to be on alert heading into this one, Texas starts the game without both starting Senior cornerbacks, Kris Boyd, and Davante Davis, for the first quarter, and star Wide Receiver Lil’Jordan Humphrey for at least the first offensive series of the game. True Freshman Anthony Cook and Redshirt Freshman Kobe Boyce make their first and second career starts, respectively, in place of the suspended Boyd and Davis.

Oklahoma State features one of the best Running Backs and Wide Receiver combinations in all of College Football, in Junior Justice Hill and Sophomore Tylan Wallace. It will be paramount for the Texas Defense to keep these two under relative control to avoid chaos tonight.

A 4 play, 53-yard drive, which took less than two minutes to open the game and ended in a 40-yard touchdown pass to standout WR Tylan Wallace, was early confirmation that Texas would indeed be in for a fight tonight. Oklahoma State strikes first, 7-0.

Sophomore Quarterback Sam Ehlinger makes his return after leaving the previous game versus Baylor after Texas’ first possession with a Shoulder injury. Ehlinger showed no hesitance to run the football and looked good throwing it on Texas’ first drive. He shocked every viewer in the audience when he made a finesse move on his 5-yard touchdown run, which capped a 7-play, 40-yard touchdown drive to answer on it’s opening drive. Tie ballgame.

It’s simply looking too easy right now for Oklahoma State offensively. Texas’ blitz has been ineffective the first two drives outside of BJ Foster doing BJ Foster-like things and deflecting a pass at the LOS. Texas was misaligned on a 4th and 1 later in the drive, resulting in a 16-yard touchdown pass to an uncovered TE. 14-7 Cowboys.

That was a big drop by Lil’Jordan Humphrey on an absolute strike thrown by Sam Ehlinger. That play may have gone for a long touchdown if Humphrey were able to hang on to it. To make matter worse, the drive stalled out and Texas was forced to punt.

Oklahoma State has moved the ball at will, both on the ground and through the air, through a quarter and some change. With 10:00 to go in the second quarter, OSU has scored on four of their first five possessions, with a missed field goal being the only reason for not going perfect. The Texas D is reeling and getting pushed around at the point of attack. Texas was giving a TON of cushion in coverage due to having to play the young, inexperienced Corners. It didn’t look much better on the initial drive that Boyd and Davis made their game debuts.

Collin Johnson has had a tough time getting separation from Oklahoma State’s AJ Green. Green, along with Tylan Wallace, is a Texas native that wasn’t shown much attention during the recruiting process by the Longhorns, it’s safe to say those guys are playing with an edge tonight. Wallace has 5 catches for 110 yards after a little over a quarter of football.

Credit the Texas Offense for coming back and striking very quickly, how about 4-plays and 75-yards in 1:12 for a response? The biggest play of the drive was an Ehlinger dime to his roommate, TE Andrew Beck, who had a step on the defender on a seam route for 37 yards. 24-14 Oklahoma State.

The Texas D would then force Oklahoma State’s first punt on the next possession, which was promptly muffed by D’Shawn Jamison. Collin Johnson was aware enough to recover the loose football and avoid a disaster for the Horns.

The 4th and 1 fade ball that Tylan Wallace turned into a touchdown before the half was demoralizing. Kris Boyd poorly timed his leap on the play. Wallace has 8 catches for 167 yards and 2 touchdowns in the First Half. 31-14 Oklahoma State. Texas was outgained 378-169 in Total Yards and 19-9 in First Downs during the first half. Taylor Cornelius, who has been mediocre at best this season, was 16 for 21 (76%) for 241 yards and 4 total touchdowns. Justice Hill and Chuba Hubbard combined for 145 first-half rushing yards.

With Texas unable to get anything going offensively to start the second half, they find themselves in a danger zone very early in the third quarter. The defense cannot give up any more points.

A holding call on Andrew Beck negates a 45-yard pass from Ehlinger to Collin Johnson. Penalties have been an issue for Texas all season. It becomes a glaring issue when you’re playing from behind. On a night where Texas has struggled to move the ball, they get in their own way when there is finally a breakthrough.

If Tylan Wallace is up for the Biletnikoff at the end of this season, this Texas game will be his complete highlight reel at the ceremony. Midway through the third quarter, Wallace has outgained Texas by himself, with 216 receiving yards to Texas’ 196 yards of Total Offense.

A second missed field goal by Oklahoma State kicker Matt Ammendola, who came into the game with only one miss on the season (11-12), gives Texas another chance to cut into a 31-14 deficit.

What a catch by Keaontay Ingram and what a throw by Sam Ehlinger on a 22-yard touchdown pass on the same wheel route that we saw Tre Watson score on versus Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. Texas has cut the Oklahoma State lead to 10, 31-21 Cowboys.

Texas gets the ball back to start the fourth quarter with momentum, after the Defense forces a 3-and-out. Texas has statistically been a poor fourth quarter ball club this season. They will have to buck that trend in order to complete a second half comeback in Stillwater.

Tremendous play call and play design on the “Pop” pass to Beck for the Touchdown. Two straight drives of execution from Texas offensively. All of a sudden, the folks in Stillwater are getting antsy. The lead is cut to three, 31-28 Oklahoma State.

Brandon Jones what are you thinking?!? The Junior gets subbed in as the Punt Returner for D’shawn Jamison when Texas wants more experienced/sure hands and a good decision to be made. Jones inexplicably fielded the ball over his head running backwards, ultimately getting tackled at the one-yard line. Texas is going to have to take the toughest route possible to take the lead in this one after the Defense was able to hold once again.

Texas has to have been called offsides at least 3 times tonight on Defense, at terrible junctures in the game. Four plays later, Cornelius scores on a designed QB run from 10 yards out. Oklahoma State is back up 10, with 5:44 left to play.

Texas goes 75 yards in 13 plays in 3:59 to take the lead back to three as Tre Watson punches it in from two yards out, 38-35. Can’t help but feel like some unnecessary clock was wasted on that drive. Texas still has all of its’ timeouts with 1:59 left.

No hop on the onside kick. Oklahoma State recovers and will begin the drive from the Texas 45.

3rd and 6, Cornelius catches the Texas Defense off guard on the keep and converts. That is going to do it, Oklahoma State is going to win the ball game 38-35.

Sam Ehlinger finished the game 22 of 42 (52%) for 283 yards while adding 47 yards rushing for 4 total touchdowns. Taylor Cornelius finished 23 of 34 (67%) for 321 yards and 3 touchdowns. Tylan Wallace finished with 10 receptions for 222 yards and 2 touchdowns.