Texas recruits react to departure of Tashard Selection
Slightly over per week in the past, Tashard Selection was talked about as a possible candidate for the Dallas Cowboys working backs place.
The Texas assistant coach didn’t land that job. However on Thursday, it was reported that Selection could be leaving the Longhorns for a similar place with the Detroit Lions.
And it caught loads of the highest Texas working again targets without warning.
“I’m shocked,” No. 1 working again Ezavier Crowell mentioned. “We had an amazing relationship.”
Crowell, from Jackson, Ala., was one thing of an extended shot to land at Texas as Alabama is the frontrunner in his recruitment with Auburn amongst many others nonetheless very a lot concerned.
However the 2026 working again class in Texas is completely loaded – the most effective teams in latest reminiscence – and the Longhorns have been thought of the frontrunners for at the least a few them for a while.
“Undoubtedly got here out of the blue,” mentioned four-star Forney, Texas, working again Javian Osborne, who’s had the Longhorns and Michigan battling on the high of his recruitment.
“Stunned me as a result of I’m like, wow. I had youngsters at college saying that the coach left and I’m like, ‘What’s that? Not true,’ and once I noticed it with my very own eyes, simply was in shock however very pleased for him and his household.”
Jakoby Dixon, a four-star working again within the 2027 class from Brenham, Texas, had the same feeling on the Selection information as Crowell: “I’m shocked. I haven’t heard about it till now.”
Texas and Texas A&M have been going forwards and backwards with the state’s high working again, Carthage’s KJ Edwards, who was instructed by Selection throughout a latest go to to Austin that he regarded ahead to growing him there.
Michigan, Baylor, SMU, Stanford, Tennessee and Clemson are some others that Edwards has been extremely contemplating in his recruitment however the phrase has been that the Longhorns have the sting over the Aggies with everyone else chasing.
The Carthage standout is pleased Selection is shifting on to the NFL for his personal profession development however solely time will inform if it impacts his considering with the Longhorns.
“I’m all for doing and eager to do higher so I’m pleased for him,” Edwards mentioned. “He instructed me his objective was to ultimately get to the league so it was a shock in a way however wasn’t on the similar time.”
