Texas’ win over Notre Dame drew national headlines.

The Longhorns are back; Shane Buechele the savior; Tyrone Swoopes the 18 Wheeler; How Charlie Strong flipped Texas on its head.

Strong did SportsCenter, Swoopes earned Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week and Buechele made Fallon – good luck with that vasectomy story floating around, Shane.

Yet, through it all, there were only passing mentions of the hard-charging Longhorns running back that rushed for 131 yards and scored what would end up being the game-tying touchdown that sent the game into overtime in the first place. Hell, even this column doesn’t get around to mentioning D'Onta Foreman’s name until the fourth paragraph.

Foreman, a junior, led the Longhorns in rushing with 681 yards at a 7.1 per-carry clip in 2015. He’s a 6-foot-1, 249-pound running back who runs a legitimate 4.4 40-yard dash. He’s rushed for 100 yards or more in five of his last seven games – he received a total of 12 carries in the two games he didn’t.

Yet Foreman, at least outside of Austin, is a bit unknown.

It’s fitting, really. The underrated/undervalued tag has applied to Foreman his entire career.

First, he was the underrated twin. Second, he was the underrated recruit. Now, he’s the nation’s most underrated running back.

“I feel like a lot of people underestimated me,” Foreman said last season. “I used that. I felt like I had to show people. I just try to show people they missed out on something.”

Growing up, Foreman always found himself a step behind his brother, Armanti.

Armanti reached varsity first – if only by a few varsity practices – received his Texas offer first, arrived on campus first, made his college debut first and scored his first college touchdown, you guessed it, first.

As a recruit, Armanti ranked as the No. 110 overall player in the 2014 class per the 247Sports Composite and held offers from all over the country. D’Onta, ranked as the No. 1,031 player, had to run a sub 4.5 40 in front of the Texas coaches to earn his offer after Armanti held his. Many considered him the lesser part of a "package deal."

Stories like those are sprinkled throughout D’Onta’s career. He’s always running to chase someone – usually his brother.

“He saw Armanti play on varsity and was like, ‘oh, hell no. I’m going to be on varsity,’” their father, Derrick, told 247Sports last season. “One is not going to let the other one out-do them.”

But nowadays, others are chasing chasing after D’Onta.

Only 22 backs rushed for more yards than D’Onta in Week 1, and very few of those split carries with a bowling ball at quarterback – hello, “18 Wheeler” – and a 252-pound backfield mate, Chris Warren. Fewer still got their yards in as impressive or as powerful fashion. Foreman's long of 19 was one a go-ahead touchdown in the fourth-quarter, but most of his other carries were violent five- or six-yard plunges that saw him take on tacklers, run through them, and, when it appeared he might be down, stick his other arm into the turf to balance himself and keep going. Given the long dreadlocks he's sporting now, Foreman might've reminded fans of Ricky Williams.

Running for big yardage against quality opponents is nothing new to Foreman. He rushed for 100 yards against TCU and Oklahoma last season, too.

Good defense or bad, it hasn’t seemed to matter.

Foreman, who missed Texas’ final two games of last season with a broken finger, fell five carries short of qualifying for the NCAA ranking for yards per carry last season. But if he had, his 7.1 clip would have slotted fifth nationally.

Yet Foreman received little national or even regional recognition entering 2016.

He didn’t earn preseason All-Big 12 honors or a spot on Dave Campbell’s All-Texas College Team – the magazine picked four in-state runners ahead of Foreman. He didn’t even crack Phil Steele’s Top 46 draft-eligible running back list.

Foreman’s distaste for disrespect is well voiced, a common theme in his tweets.

I got too much too lose to be acting stupid but I will NEVER let any Man, boy, child, ect disrespect me. — D'Onta Foreman #IDM (@D33_foreman) July 19, 2015

. Except Disrespect! I refuse to tolerate any disrespect, that's why I give my respect first https://t.co/38Qe9UYTK3 — D'Onta Foreman #IDM (@D33_foreman) July 22, 2016

Now, those tweets aren’t football specific. But they might as well be.

Foreman doesn’t hesitate to admit he carries a family-sized chip on his shoulder.

“I feel like we all have to,” Foreman said this spring. “With the season we had last year, how could you not play with a chip on your shoulder? Everybody has to get to that point and run with it.”

For Texas, Foreman is the perfect fit. He’s quiet, runs hard, blocks well and doesn’t require a lot of attention from anyone.

After all, he’s used to not receiving much.

Eventually, though, the recognition will come. He’s the starting running back on the nation’s No. 11 team and will threaten to be the first Texas running back since Jamaal Charles to rush for 1,000 yards.

Maybe then someone will pay attention. Until then, the nation’s most unheralded back at its most-talked about school will continue to plug away.

Only now, others are sprinting after him.