He didn’t make the final edition of the Top247 for 2019, but Kenyatta Watson II (Loganville, Ga./Grayson) will end the recruiting cycle as a 247Sports four-star prospect. As the 247Sports staff has been adjusting rankings for prospects who finished outside of the Top247 since the rankings were released on Wednesday, The Texas cornerback signee is slated to end the cycle as a four-star prospect with a grade of 90 on Friday.

Watson didn't receive move up in the 247Sports rankings, although he’s currently inside the top 300 nationally at No. 289 overall. Watson did, however, move up nine spots in the 247Sports Composite rankings as he currently sits at No. 131 overall in the rankings that determine where the Longhorns will finish in the chase for the recruiting national championship.

Watson (6-2, 182) is one of 24 members of the Texas recruiting class that’s currently the No. 3-ranked class in the country, according to 247Sports. An Under Armour All-American selection who chose the Longhorns over Florida State, Notre Dame, Tennessee and a host of other programs, Watson is of 12 recruits Tom Herman and Texas have either already had sign a National Letter of Intent, enroll on the Forty Acres or give the program a verbal commitment (five-star prospect Bru McCoy is considered a commitment until he enrolls in school to fully complete his transfer from USC).

In 13 games as a senior for prep powerhouse Grayson, Watson racked up 91 total tackles, four tackles for loss, 17 passes defended, two interceptions, two forced fumbles, one safety, one blocked field goal and one blocked extra point. When he announced Watson along with the first wave of signees in December, Herman mentioned Watson’s length standing out among the gifts he brings to the table.

“Great technician for a guy with his length,” Herman said. “Long-armed guy that's very fluid in his hips. You can tell he's played a lot of football.”

One recruiting cycle after signing arguably the most impressive collection of defensive backs in the internet era of recruiting rankings — including 247Sports Composite five-star recruits Caden Sterns and B.J. Foster and 247Sports five-star prospects Jalen Green and DeMarvion Overshown — Watson is one of three defensive back signees in 2019 ranked inside the top 200 of the Composite. Watson, 247Sports five-star safety Tyler Owens (No. 107 according to the Composite) and Lakewood (Calif.) Mayfair safety Chris Adimora (No. 190) are all going to end the cycle as top 200 recruits while three-star cornerback signee Marques Caldwell has the length Herman, Todd Orlando and Jason Washington are looking for at cornerback.

“I think when you talk about Kenyatta, as well, you're going to see length at those corner positions, which is something that's extremely important,” Herman said in December. “(Caldwell) play a lot of different positions, too.”

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Watson finishing the cycle among the nation’s best prospects and Caldwell having the tools the Longhorns are looking for to defend the bevy of highly-skilled perimeter playmakers on the outside the defense will see throughout the Big 12 schedule make an already rich position group even more so. With nine consensus top 200 defensive back recruits joining the program over the 2018 and 2019 recruiting cycles (assuming D'Shawn Jamison moves back to defense this spring), the Texas secondary is on the verge of becoming perhaps the country’s deepest and most talented.