Tom Herman said earlier this spring that Texas wide receiver John Burt would be allowed to go through spring practice and run track for the Longhorns.

The only condition placed upon Burt, Herman said, was that he couldn’t miss any football workouts unless there was a conflict with a meet. Rather than pick one or the other, Burt did both on Saturday.

Burt participated in the first spring scrimmage at Denius Fields on Saturday morning. When his work on the gridiron was done, the senior made his way to Mike A. Myers Stadium where he ran in the 110-meter invitational hurdles in the Texas Relays.

Wide receivers coach Drew Mehringer praised Burt for the effort, especially due to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Lincoln product finishing second in his race with a time of 13.96:

Burt also received props via Twitter from his fellow wideout on the Forty Acres, Collin Johnson:

Shout out to @JohnBurt_1 for going full go in our @TexasFootball scrimmage this morning and then placing 2nd in the 110 Hurdles this afternoon! ????Your a stud bro! — Collin Johnson (@Call_In_Johnson) March 31, 2018

Already with a second-team All-American track honor for the Longhorns under his belt in his career, Burt is trying to advance to his third-consecutive NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships this spring. He’s attempting to do while competing with Devin Duvernay for a starting spot at the Z receiver position for Herman, Mehringer and the Longhorns.

As long as an athlete can handle the demands of playing two sports, Herman doesn’t have a problem with one of his player attempting two-sport stardom at the collegiate level. Adrian Colbert and Antwuan Davis ran track and played football for the Longhorns while Jamaal Charles, Michael Huff and Brian Robison are among the more prominent players who pulled off the football-track double.

The best, most recent example of a Longhorn doing both at a high level is Marquise Goodwin. The current San Francisco 49ers wideout was not only an offensive weapon for Texas who was taken in the 2013 NFL Draft, but Goodwin was a good enough long jumper to advance to the 2012 London Olympics.

With Burt being able to handle the responsibilities of two sports for the season year in a row under Herman, the coach isn’t shy about recruiting prospects who have similar aspirations.

“We're recruiting a guy right now who might want to play baseball, another guy who might want to play basketball,” Herman said recently. “Great, we want you to. But, football also pays your scholarship too, so you've got to be committed to not missing anything.”

Burt will enter his final season in a Texas uniform with 57 receptions for 835 yards and four touchdowns. Showing his wheels can transfer from the track to the turf, Burt has six career receptions of 43 yards or more and has the sixth-longest reception in school history with his 90-yard catch-and-run last season against Oklahoma State (an 84-yard touchdown against Kansas in 2015 is tied for the ninth-longest reception ever for a Longhorn).

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