– 2019 CB and Oregon commit, Marques Caldwell (Alvin, TX) reports he has received a Texas offer…

God is Amazing! After a great talk with Coach Washington I am More then blessed to have received an offer from “THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS” #HookEm🤘🏾 @CoachTomHerman pic.twitter.com/d5vkFAYQSd — CÀŁDW3ŁŁ🌴 (@CMarquesssss) May 18, 2018

I’ve seen, Caldwell in person. Big cornerback who can absolutely cover!

I texted his father who confirmed the offer and said, “I’m proud of him”.

We’ll have more on this later but I fully expect Texas to be a player here. – (Super K)

– Late last week, 2019 defensive end and Rutgers commit, Bryce Nelms (West Orange, NJ) let me know that he was visiting Texas this weekend for an unofficial visit.

Nelms is originally from Atlanta but moved to New Jersey last fall. He has family in the Dallas and Houston areas.

At a listed 6’5 255 lbs, he certainly fits the body type of the 4i DEs that Texas likes to have.

I will have a full update on his visit later – (Super K)

– Arguably, the biggest official visit news this past weekend for Texas could be about a recruit that wasn’t even be in Austin. Notre Dame Prep (AZ) WR Jake Smith, who is down to Texas and USC, took his official visit to USC this weekend. He will visit Texas on June 2nd and likely make a commitment shortly after.

This weekends visit will tell a lot in terms of how this recruitment will play out, but I wanted to share something. We’ve been reporting for a while now that people on Texas’ side of this have felt good about their chances to land Smith. Now after talking to some people on the USC side of this, they have been losing confidence in terms of their chances to land Smith. Like I said, this weekend will be huge, as USC could jump right back up in this one. Though it seems Texas has the clear edge heading into the official visits.

USC has been Smith’s dream school, but I’ve been told he has concerns with his “fit in the USC offense”. Texas OC Tim Beck, and newest Texas commit and Arizona native TE Brayden Liebrock, have been working hard on this one for Texas. – (Andrew)

– Texas is really pushing hard in Arizona right now. One of their primary targets there is DB Noa Pola-Gates. As we’ve reported before, Pola-Gates has family here in Austin and around Texas. I’ve been told by a number of people very close to Noa that the Longhorns offer has continued to make a huge impact on him. Coach Naivar has now been to see him twice and this has worked wonders in this recruitment. It seems that behind the scenes the interest is rapidly rising within him and his family. So much so that he will likely be taking a visit to Texas in late June. There seems to be quite a bit of buzz around Texas within that household. – (Will)

– With Texas combing the state of Arizona like the Spaceballs troopers, it’s a surprise that they seemed to miss a pretty big target in DE Ty Robinson from Higley in Gilbert, AZ. Well, they won’t be out of the picture there for long.

Robinson is a 6’5″ 260-pound behemoth. He is exceptionally well built, but perhaps could work a bit on the finer points of the position.

His talent hasn’t gone unnoticed as he has recently been blowing up receiving a Penn State and Stanford offer.

He also holds offer from Texas A&M, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and USC.

Just a guy to keep an eye on. – (Will)

– As you by now, NaNa Osafo-Mensah selected Notre Dame over Texas. We shot the video.

For a while it really looked like he was leaning Texas. Within our discussions with him, Texas seemed to be standing out. However a couple weeks ago he let us know that Notre Dame was the likely choice.

We actually shot two endings, one for Texas and Notre Dame.

Earlier this week, he actually had plans to take a last minute trip on Friday (yesterday) to Texas for one last appeal from the Texas staff. But ultimately decided against it. – (Super K)

– Texas A&M seems to be the heavy favorite for CB Marcus Banks as of now. I’ve talked with those very close to Banks, and he has known for a while now where he wants to end up. Texas has not backed off recruiting him, but they have taken a huge step backwards in his recruitment.

– Not unrelated, Texas has extended an offer out to Oregon CB commit Marques Caldwell. As of now Texas stands in a very good position with Caldwell, and I’d expect a flip if they push.

– There have been a lot of reports stating that Texas A&M is now the leader for Dylan Wright. We can assure everyone that those claims seem to be a bit inflated. While the Aggies did make significant progress, it seems that it’s cooling off. We’ll have a more in-depth update later from Super K. – (Will)