IT Live: Texas' Latest Roster Update Insights

Summary

Podcast Summary: Inside Texas Football – IT Live: Texas' Latest Roster Update Insights

Date: July 22, 2026
Host: Inside Texas Team (B, C, D)
Episode Theme:
A deep-dive, position-by-position breakdown and lively discussion of the newly released Texas Longhorns Football 2026 roster update – with focus on player heights, weights, physical changes since spring, and what those changes mean for the upcoming season.

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Overview

This episode of IT Live exists for Texas Football diehards. The hosts break down the Longhorns’ latest official roster drop, provide running commentary on whose weights and body compositions have changed (or stayed the same), muse about position fits, speculate on potential depth chart shifts, and share “insider” insights about player development, staff philosophy, and what to watch next. The conversation weaves through each position room, mixing analysis, humor, and plenty of skepticism about listed measurements.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Defensive Backs & Defensive Adjustments

Timestamps: 01:12–11:44

• Notable Players and Weights
  • Derek Williams stays a “lean” 6'2", 199 lbs; steady throughout his Texas career.
  • Jelani and Kobe Black seen as “big” for corners (6'2", 201 lbs; 6'0", 200 lbs), but not oversized for safety.
  • “Leaner is a relative term.” – C [01:49]
  • Bo Masco (transfer from Rutgers) adds bulk: 5'11", 199 lbs (was 180s previously).
  • Interest in whether Kobe Black will allow his weight to climb if moved to safety.
  • Samari Matthews arrives physically ready (6'1", 197 lbs) – “Good weight, man, for a freshman.” – B [04:46]
  • Zealous Hicks drops from 190s to 183 lbs; concern for redshirt freshman safeties being too lean.
  • “The numbers are not accurate. Some of them are exactly right. And some of them are fanciful imaginations.” – C [06:22]
• Nickel Star Questions
  • Wardell Mack (6'1", 183 lbs) and Grayson Littleton (6'1", 182) are “bigger of the nickel options,” but not “big nickels.”
  • “If he plays physical, lighter, and he holds up, then... sometimes those weights are just standardization. If you don't need it, you don't need it.” – C [10:32]
  • Discussion of the Tyron Mathieu ‘small but effective’ precedent: “Five nine, 175 (lbs) in his big year at LSU.” – C [10:16]
• Biggest Safety in the Room: Jordan Johnson-Rebel jumps to 5'10", 212 lbs – up from his “170” high school listing: “That’s a bowling ball build.” – B [07:55]

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2. Defensive Line: Big Bodies, Big Questions

Timestamps: 12:26–18:13

• Weight Changes & Role Fit
  • Justice Terry now at “6’5”, 289” (long rumored to be heavier than listed).
  • Myron Charles at 6’4”, 312 lbs – “all good” for redshirt frosh.
  • Murad Watson bulks up to 333 lbs: “I did not expect that. He always looked lighter.” – B [14:54]
  • Sid Sharma at 6’4”, 341 lbs — eye-popping size for the nose spot.
  • Gifrard "Gifford" is the biggest: 6’5”, 375 lbs.
  • “He is massive... not meant to play full games.” – C [17:43]
  • Rotational management for ultra-heavy linemen, referencing Will Muschamp’s philosophy: “When those big guys lose their legs... they’re shot for the rest of the game. You have to protect them before they get there.” – C [18:13]
  • Hero Canoe drops from “320” to “309,” possibly reflecting a change from nose to more 3/4i.

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3. Ongoing Weight-Training Approach

Timestamps: 23:06–24:42

• Staff has shifted from isolated lifts to “just do the Olympic lifts as heavy as you can, for low rep,” especially emphasized for OL & TEs.
• Discussion of how gaining functional strength is prioritized, and of “heavy lifting” not being code for PEDs, but true program emphasis.
• Notable quote: “There's a reason why our reporting all this offseason is, like, they've had an added emphasis to lift heavy. Well, if you have an added emphasis to lift heavy, then that's an admission that you weren't at least maximizing.” – B [23:31]

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4. Offensive Line: Concerns, Progress, and the Hudson Saga

Timestamps: 24:51–29:47

• Return of Jake Majors/Hudson?
  • The hosts dissect the talk of Hudson possibly returning after a brief NFL stint.
  • Concerns revolve around NCAA eligibility rules, NIL, and whether his return signals an issue with OL development.
  • Key concern: “If he's in there for depth… there's a trade-off. You are taking reps from someone else.” – C [27:57]
  • They debate “value add” vs “stunting development of young guys,” and whether using a precious scholarship is justified.
• Weight Movements on OL
  • Big gains: Chapman (300 up to 330 lbs); Goosebie (6’7”, 325 lbs); several incoming freshmen listed heavier than expected.
  • Some OL are slightly down after bulking in spring, presumably seeking optimal movement vs. mass.
  • Several jokes about the real accuracy of listed sizes: “If they list him at 6’2, that's even more evidence that he's like 6 foot or 6’1.” – C [50:57]

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5. Edge/Linebacker/Hybrid Spots

Timestamps: 36:39–43:27

• Edge Weights Climbing
  • Xena and Lance Jackson at 272/274 lbs: “Large edges, 6’5, so that’s awesome.” – B [37:03]
  • Odaarioboa Roadbow up to 238 from 225; hosts see it as big gain.
  • Carlton at 280 as a freshman; Spence as “edge/LB hybrid” (likely starting SAM in base, subpackage edge).
• Linebackers
  • True freshman Atkinson at 219 lbs (“lean, no fat at all”), with hosts expecting slow, steady gains rather than mass bulks.
  • Ty Anthony Smith now up to 214 lbs, from concerns of “205 or less” previously – still would like him in the 220–230 range.
  • Juce Cryer steady/trim at 241 lbs; Rocky Cummings as a “big” true frosh LB at 6'4", 227.
  • Transfer Darius Snow listed at only 219 lbs: “You're probably not going to see him this year.” – C [43:52]

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6. Detailed O-Line & Development Talk

Timestamps: 44:12–51:38

• Turn Time – Already at 295 as a freshman OL; could play tackle at 305, “could play it at 270, optimized at plus 300.” – B [44:31]
• Robertson, Kojo, Coleman Bros – Multiple 325+ pounders; some concern about developmental weight vs. functional play weight (“once you’re above 340, it’s probably unnecessary”).
• Guards with Leverage – “Unique leverage advantages of being a ‘shorter’ guard... hyper guard is often overrated.” – B/C [51:07]

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7. Skill Positions: Quarterbacks, Backs, Receivers

Timestamps: 51:38–62:12

• QBs – KJ Lacey smaller (6', 188), Arch Manning “giant QB” (6'4", 222).
• RBs
  • Relique Brown (transfer): “So good, Connor. That was not the blocking [on those plays].” – C [52:44]
  • “He's so fast.” – B [52:50]
  • Hollywood Smothers similarly stout for a “speed back” at 193 lbs.
  • Darrick Cooper brings true size as a frosh (6'1", 212 lbs).
• Tight Ends
  • Zuniga steady at 259 lbs, Townsend bigger than expected (250). Shannon, 6'7", 260, is lighter than spring but slated for bigger role.
  • “I think they’re going to throw to him more than people think.” – C [57:24]
  • Will Randall (Manning’s HS mate) at 249, still on the roster.
• WRs
  • Several notable bulks: Cam Brown at 6'3", 204 lbs, Colin Brown (202 lbs—“the fastest guy on the team”).
  • Colin Brown’s “Porsche athlete” concern: “Performance is unbelievable… but everything starts breaking.” – C [61:25]
  • Daley McCutcheon and Chris Stewart listed ~180 lbs; hosts want some to gain weight for “bunch” formations/slot roles, but others (like Niblett) are “pretty thick” for their role (5'10",189).
  • DeAndre Moore, Jr. (Kik), is down in weight: “I want him up. He’s such an awesome contested receiver... would like him to become even more dominant.” – B [59:50]

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8. Coaching, Media Days, & Philosophy

Timestamps: 33:07–36:22, 63:09–64:39

• Questions for Sark at Media Days:
  • Hosts debate how to get Sarkisian to give real answers—recommend focusing on scheme, not interpersonal or drama angles.
  • “If you ask him a good question about strategy, he'll lay it out… They're so used to dodging… you ask about scheme and they're more forthcoming.” – C [34:48]
  • C wants the “truth serum” answer about last year’s left guard shuffling, specifically re: Netto.
• General Approach
  • Frequent reminders of hit-and-miss roster measurement accuracy, and skepticism over certain listed numbers—“some are legitimate, some are wishful thinking.”
  • Inside Texas recommends their $1 subscription and plugging upcoming SEC Media Day coverage with Ian as on-site correspondent.

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9. Quick Look at Oklahoma and Roster Philosophy

Timestamps: 63:09–64:39

• Brief, half-joking mention of OU's own transitions; hiring Kevin Wilson (again) to aid a move away from the Air Raid, with hosts speculating that “Arbuckle should look over his shoulder.”
• Listeners are reminded not to bring OU's “negative energy” into the Texas podcast space.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The numbers are not accurate. Some of them are exactly right. And some of them are fanciful imaginations.” – C [06:22]
• “When those big guys lose their legs... they’re shot for the rest of the game. So you have to protect them before they get there.” – C on D-line rotation [18:13]
• “I refuse to believe lifting heavy was ever not the mantra.” – B [23:23]
• “He's committed to the way of the Chick Fil A, the art of the Taco Bell. But that's what you have to do, man...” – B on bulking up [20:32]
• “If he plays physical, lighter than, and he holds up, then... sometimes those weights are just for standardization. If you don't need it, you don't need it.” – C [10:32]
• “He was so smart and skilled in his huddle, I automatically assumed he was a bad athlete.” – B on Colin Brown [60:36]
• “He's not gonna block. He's not gonna play at Texas.” – C on Michael Terry at TE [54:04]
• “OU is really bad about it. They'll strike their own content creators.” – B on Big 12 rivals and social media [56:10]
• “They brought in Kevin Wilson... which is a really weird title... If I'm Arbuckle, I'm looking over my shoulder constantly.” – C [63:09]

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Final Thoughts

The IT Live team provides a uniquely detailed, position-by-position roster reaction with analysis that’s both technical and tinged with irreverent humor. They draw the dots between weight/growth and potential playing time, highlight the reality-vs-lists struggle, and offer inside jokes and skepticism that should resonate with dedicated Longhorn fans. The insight is practical, not just speculative, and rooted in detailed roster tracking across years. For anyone tracking the Texas depth chart, this episode is a must-listen (or a must-read with this summary in hand).

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Listen to This Episode If You Want To:

• Understand which Longhorns have transformed physically in the offseason, and what that means for the 2026 depth chart.
• Hear detailed, candid chatter between roster-obsessed analysts.
• Get advanced insight on the Texas staff’s philosophical approach to player development.
• Laugh at the eternal skepticism of official roster numbers – and join ongoing debates about “best” playing weights.

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Next Up:
Stay tuned for the next episodes as the hosts (and Ian at SEC Media Days) report live questions, even more context, and in-depth discussions about Texas Football as the 2026 season approaches.

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Download today football dorks. Good news today. Texas has updated its roster. So we will go through that. Then we will comment on, hey, this guy weighs enough or this guy does not weigh enough and that's going to be important for the season. Before we do that, y' all head over to Inside Texas where you can join for $1. Then you're going to get half off your first year. That's hell of a deal. You also get, of course on three and rivals packaged all together. Link in the description. There were actually some players here, Ian, that I was excited to see how they have progressed or not progressed. So let's go position by position and talk through the updated roster. Also some players that came after spring that we could not see their heights and weights. And now we can. Let's start.

[C]

What I said. Yeah, let's do it.

[B]

Okay. It was so high energy, dude. I don't know how I missed that. All right, so let's start with defensive back here and we're gonna go each room. Can I help you more.

[C]

That's. That is. That is better.

[B]

All right, let's see if we can do that. Derek Williams at 6 foot 2, 199 pounds. Anything's of interest there?

[C]

Not really.

[B]

Same.

[C]

He's been around that for his whole time in Texas.

[B]

Yeah, he's always been a little bit leaner. And then Jelani also kind of a leaner guy. Six two, 201.

[C]

I mean, leaner is a relative term.

[B]

Right, Right, right.

[C]

You see these people in person, 200 pounds. You can tell what that looks like is a little different than.

[B]

Yeah, it's just not the future linebacker, 220 pound safety type.

[C]

Yeah. By the way, everybody, I keep roster notes all off season and I'll update them all off season is the weights and heights are updated. So I noticed when they give or take inches away from guys and I went through it all this morning before the show and I have anybody whose weight fluctuated in a particularly large or interesting way, I made a note of it. Some of them, it'll be like they were 227, another 229.

[B]

Right.

[C]

That's like you catch yourself in between meals. That's you'll your weight fluctuates by like two or three pounds a day. So that's not meaningful. Some of these guys bodies have changed a little bit. Bo Masco, 5 11, 199 pounds. He's much heavier than when he was at Rutgers.

[B]

I was gonna say 199. For that height, he's actually pretty stocky. And for having that man coverage ability too, that's awesome.

[C]

I think it was in the 180s at Rutgers and he's been climbing up.

[B]

Wow. That's significant.

[C]

I think maybe the last one wasn't that much different, but Kobe Black's weight has not changed. He's been like 60 or 200 for forever. I wonder if next off season this one looks different or not. That's the one I'm interested in.

[B]

So that's unique that you said that because you know the whole thing is like for years you're like, can he play safety? Which gives you the assumption that he's like very large for corner and 200 is not small for corner. But it's not. He's not 220 like a safety. So it is unique. You just kind of think move to safety, move to safety that he might be larger. Do you think he's gonna add £10 next season?

[C]

I don't know. But that on the it maybe. How much has he been fighting his body to stay low?

[B]

Well, that's what I thought too. I thought maybe he was controlling his weight more too so he could stay better at corner but.

[C]

Right. But then maybe at safety he wants to do that too. If he's gonna be dropping down to play match or zone match on inside receivers a lot, then maybe he still wants to because I think he's the heir at field's strong safety. I think he's gonna back back up Derrick Williams there this season because that's the more rangy spot.

[B]

Yeah. I do want to see if he ends up putting on weight and if he's been artificially kind of restricting that for the quarter position because that was always the take is like he's a

[C]

big guy but so far no difference.

[B]

Kate Phillips.

[C]

Same. He's the same.

[B]

Same. 6 foot 191. Samari Matthews. Good weight man for a freshman. 6 foot 1, 197 pounds. Normally they come in at like 180, 170. So he couldn't. He's playing weight right now. Zealous. Hicks was a young Player still trying to figure it out, it appears. And he's at 6 foot 2. He has good height, 183 pounds. So definitely would want some more weight there. As a red shirt freshman. What do you want him at?

[C]

You know, he's dropped.

[B]

Do you have a safety number?

[C]

Well, it depends on the dude. Right. Hicks. Hicks has lost weight.

[B]

How much did he lose?

[C]

He was like in the 190s and now he's all the way down, closer to 180. So that's interesting.

[B]

And they'll lose from these numbers if they're 100 accurate. They will lose weight kind of going here forward. So this, you're kind of seeing their max bulk of spring and workouts. No, you just, you don't gain weight in season. There's like. No, there's a few examples, but not often.

[C]

The, the counter example is that sometimes these numbers are a guess.

[B]

Well, that's, that's why I said where

[C]

they'll be in fall rather than an actual screenshot in time.

[B]

That's why I said if these numbers are accurate, they will lose weight. But there's natural range there.

[C]

Yeah, we're gonna analyze the stuff to death. But the numbers are not accurate. Some of them are exactly right.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

And some of them are fanciful imaginations. And it's, it's hard to know which is which. They're usually, they're usually at least decent right here.

[B]

6 foot 1, 193 pounds. Moving down to that nickel spot.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Any fluctuation there?

[C]

I think he's down a little bit. And he's also. Wardell Mack is 60183. Just to skip ahead, Grayson Littleton is 60182.

[B]

So he is our bigger of the nickel options.

[C]

He is our bigger of the nickel options, but he's not really a big nickel by any stretch of the imagination. Like we were wondering, oh, is Phil Simmy the big nickel? He's not very big. I, I think maybe he's moving down there because must Champ thinks he might be the best.

[B]

Yeah. And he has a lot of good speed.

[C]

Must you have like a forceful, physical player at nickel star? And I, I think Littleton shows that, but he's smaller. So

[B]

Howard, the freshman, 62182, all good. Jordan Johnson, rebel 510, 212. So significant size. That's, that's a bowling ball build right there at 5:10,212

[C]

in high school was like, had that kind of play style of a wrecking ball kind of dude. But he was listed at like 170 or something.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And in the notebook, it was like, if this guy can get around 200, that'll be ideal. He'll be so forceful, like a Chris Brown or something. And I think he read it. And once he got up to, like, 190, he was like, posting it at Inside Texas. He was like, look for all the doubters or something. Now he's 212.

[B]

Yeah. Haters.

[C]

He's probably bigger than some of our linebackers.

[B]

He's. He's not. He's close. If those numbers are accurate in linebackers, that's the position. I scrolled. I scrolled the Lawrence Seymour and I scrolled the linebacker. That was the first things I did. But he's the largest safety by weight listed right now.

[C]

Yeah, I. I think they'll find some use for him this season in sub packages.

[B]

Roberson, 6 foot, 189, often said to be our, like, best pure man guy.

[C]

Yeah, he's super sticky.

[B]

Yeah. You can see that on some reps in the all 22 last season. So. Decent size there. Good morning, roaster. All right. Davis, 197 for a freshman is really good. Six foot one. Think the future's bright there. Don't expect to see him early. You mentioned World Ward Mac, wardell Mac at 183, and then Littleton at 182.

[C]

Lilton is funny. He's. His weight never really goes up that high. He's got, like, a very much a smaller kind of corner build. And then you watch him play and he's like, physical.

[B]

Yeah. I would still like him to get up, though.

[C]

I am torn because. Let's see here. Tyron Matthew played at. He was 5, 9, 186 at the combine. And I swear he played even lighter than that at lsu.

[B]

Yeah, but we can't just name one player that was good that played lighter. Still think. Yeah. 190 would be a good middle ground of not going to 200 if naturally that's not his frame.

[C]

But five nine, one seven five in his big year at LSU.

[B]

We're gonna have a question on the deep dive coming up about Littleton. So we'll go more in depth on him, but I'm still about 190. He's still young. He's still a sophomore. True sophomore.

[C]

So if he plays physical, lighter than. And he holds up, then I don't think it's like sometimes those weights are just for standardization. Standardization. If you don't need it, you don't need it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yes. Jay. These are updated Weights.

[B]

Yeah, they just dropped these today. So these are all the new heights and weights and they added some people that weren't here in the spring as well, so that was important.

[C]

Matthew was shorter, although I don't know if Grayson Wilton's really six foot. So.

[B]

Yeah. What's the rule? Take away at least an inch on most heights.

[C]

You can't even. It's so inconsistent. Some of them, Some of them are like exactly right. And you try to play that game and it's completely wrong.

[B]

I would love to know the process of whoever makes the final decision writing these down. If it's a strength staff on a chart and then it gets handed over to the. The web developer. But at what point do these negotiations take place on like, hey man, it'd be cooler if I was six. One Behem Riley, freshman, decent weight already, but don't expect to see him much. We got some walk ons. Walk on's looking pretty solid here. Good job. Walk ons. Jonah Williams, 6 foot 3, 2 10.

[C]

About where he's been all time.

[B]

Well, that's good too because he's been injured so you would expect some type of weight loss. So sticking at that is. Is good, a good sign.

[C]

Yeah. He's technically lighter, but it's so minuscule that it's like

[B]

Nick Hudson who we picked up. He's light at 5:10, 179 pounds. And he was a older guy. Right. So he's just naturally going to be pretty small. Justice Terry, 6 foot 5, 289.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Have any thoughts on makes him a big four eye where that fit is? You seem suspicious of it. Are you?

[C]

No.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

He's been working his way to this for a long time. People have suspected he weighs this much for a long time and then his weight would be like 260, 270. We have a new defensive coach. You may have heard about him. His name is Will Muschamp.

[B]

Yeah, I think I have.

[C]

If you, if you, you know that guy Pack?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I know the guy.

[C]

Any questions about him you should ask Pack. Yeah, I think he's done some work on that.

[B]

Yeah, I see him once a week,

[C]

but I don't know they. There's a lot more roles in the defense now for guys that are just like powerful and, and fast. They don't have to like try to. I don't think they're gonna have to. I don't think all the defensive linemen are gonna have to play through the defense, the offensive line in the same way anymore. So I'm. I'M less and less worried about his weights. And I just want to see what it looks like.

[B]

65 I was impressed by too. I didn't think he was six' five.

[C]

I still don't know if he's six five.

[B]

Yeah. Caveat. But still, and very rarely, people are six five. For some reason, six four and six six are far more common on these listings. Myron Charles is at 6 foot 4. That's common. 312 pounds. All good. Red shirt freshman. He'll get some reps. James Johnson is 6 foot 3, 279. So smaller than Terry, which is unique.

[C]

All these guys because they have so much quality ahead of them. That's older. All these guys are going to be like, send them to dad just in two, three months. Forget about him.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

See him and see him on the other side.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Isaiah Coleman. I forgot we even had that guy. Same thing.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Or actually, is he a. Is he a. Is he a scholarship player or is he a walk on?

[B]

I do not know if he's scholarship. It's part of the brothers.

[C]

Is he.

[B]

I think so. Right. He's the third Coleman. Maybe there's another one.

[C]

I didn't know there was. Okay. Yeah. I think he's a walk on.

[B]

And then Murad Watson here. Now his weight is solid at 333. I did not expect that. He always kind of carried his weight or he looked lighter than that.

[C]

Not if you saw him in the spring. Not now that he's three. Now that he's 333. He's carrying a lot of that.

[B]

Yeah. And I like that bulk up because he was having some problems, you know, in the run and in short yardage early on for us. And so to go. Okay. I'm not going to be able to get bullied by combo blocks now if I'm at 333. So I think that's a really, really nice. And if he can keep that pass rush ability, that athleticism at that weight.

[C]

Let's see how it looks.

[B]

Great, though. It's big. Sharma. He's huge, dude. Just when you see pictures of him, 6 foot 4, 341. I don't think he'll be the biggest. I think we're gonna have Gifrard coming up. But he's. He's gonna be awesome for the no spot.

[C]

Charmin never looks. Sharma always looks good at his weight.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Like 20 pound. Like traps.

[B]

Yep. And then Hero Canoe. Six foot five, 309. Did that change at all?

[C]

Yes. In spring he had got up to 320, and now he's back down to 309.

[B]

I don't worry about that with him.

[C]

No. But it's interesting.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So did he just, like, bulk up and then slim back down, or did his intended. Did his possible role change. Maybe less nose. They're like, you know what we're good at nose. You can stay a little more trim because you're going to get to play more three or four eye than we thought.

[B]

So here's the big fraud is 6 foot 5. 375. How big was Sweat at his biggest?

[C]

Well, they listed him differently than he measured at the combine, and I do not believe that his combine listing was. I don't believe he changed his body for the combine.

[B]

What was his combine listing? You remember off the top of your head?

[C]

369.

[B]

So he's bigger than Sweat, huh?

[C]

Wow. That's not shocking if you.

[B]

It's a little shocking because just in my mind, to Rondre, Sweat was just such a monster.

[C]

Did you see him at the spring game? Did you go?

[B]

Yeah, I didn't.

[C]

No, you didn't go, right?

[B]

We didn't go. You don't know, but we got the footage, dude.

[C]

I remember they made a big stop, him and Canoe, and then they go over to the sideline, and Canoe was like, looking for him to congratulate him, and he just called him, like, big guy or something. Canoe went over and they did like a dap or chest bump or something. And Jafrard made look. Canoe made Canoe look so small.

[B]

He's. He's massive.

[C]

Now you're really 6, 5, 3, 20. Because he looks like me next to this guy.

[B]

Is it. Is that 375 going to be beneficial for us? Because that was the thing, you know, Is it going to naturally limit his reps? Do we want to limit his reps? Is that the point? Keep him at 30 snaps and get other guys in fresh.

[C]

They're going to need to rotate him. They're going to need to rotate him.

[B]

Yeah, he did get a little wore out in some Arkansas tape. But guys that big are not meant to play full games must.

[C]

Champ is the first. The first person that I ever learned this from. Les. Champ noted when he first came to Texas that he was like, hey, those big guys, when they lose their legs in a game, they don't come back. You can't put them on the sideline and they'll. And have them recover and get back to playing with high effort. Once they're gone, they're shot for the rest of the game. So you have to protect them before they get there. And that insight was invaluable in understanding the next decade of Big 12 play. Because every. If you watch Big 12 games from 07 to 2017, it'd be like each team would get to like just before the half or just before the end of the game. The pass rush would die. The holding calls would also lighten up a little bit or tight. And then neither team would be able to stop together at all. And because they're big guys who get gassed.

[B]

Steve Sarcasm says, played an unbelievable number of snaps last year. Yep. Overly utilized. So use that power and strength. He looked awesome in the spring game. Use him in those limited verse to attack the offense. But that's kind of.

[C]

I bet he can play more too, because he's been working with Becton and he just looks invigorated.

[B]

Zion, what did he change from? Because two. I was not expecting 370 here at six four. Yeah. High school. I mean, he's a Red Shark freshman. What was he at lsu?

[C]

He was big at lsu.

[B]

Was he? I guess.

[C]

I think he was in the 360s when he came in in the spring.

[B]

Oh, yeah. It's weird. I don't. I remember because we wanted Zion before he committed to LSU, but 370 here, man, that's awesome too.

[C]

I will say. Is it.

[B]

Granted? Why is it granted for Gifford but not him?

[C]

Gifford was huge. We just know he's huge.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

If Gifford had blown up to 400, I'd be concerned. Williams steadily gaining weight in the midst of summer conditioning is strange. Clearly he's committed to the buffet line.

[B]

He's committed to the way of the Chick Fil A, the art of the Taco Bell. But that's what you have to do, man. You know how hard it is to eat clean. It would be to eat clean and gain that level of mass.

[C]

Oh, it's be awful.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Erling Holland eats like 5,000 calories a day.

[B]

Yeah. I watched a video of like, what

[C]

he eats and like, I saw this thing of like Hugh Jackman explaining how it gets big for Wolverine and he'll eat like 5 or 6,000 calories a day. And it's all like, clean.

[B]

It's so much food, dude.

[C]

And they're like, everyone that does that will tell you it's the hardest thing is forcing yourself to eat all that food.

[B]

Even bodybuilders say, like, the mantra is that they're professional eaters. Like, that's what they are first. And at first Sounds cool. It's like you can eat as many calories as you want and it's. You just see the absolute misery. Ronnie Coleman having to wake up at 3am in the middle of night to eat food and so he could go back to bed.

[C]

No, because the trick to you find in the trick to weight loss is that if you eat meat and vegetables, you can fill yourself up and eat like a good volume and you just won't get the calories to blow up and be fat.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

But then if you're like, okay, now I need you to eat a gazillion calories of these meat and vegetables, then you're just like Kevin Malone shoving broccoli down and you just. It's miserable.

[B]

Yeah. I think you got to use take advantage of some of the local fast food options. These updates seem to indicate that the heavy lifting mantra is working. We haven't seen O line yet. D line, they've been solid there. I didn't actually look at. I only looked at one person on the O line. So we will see that together.

[C]

Joshi. We're really only worried about the offensive line. Offensive line and tight end are the only spots because defensive line you can be like naturally explosive and fast and then you learn to use your hands and you're going to be good. If you're not like legitimately country strong or I guess country strong's not the right word, but like super functionally, powerfully strong on the offensive line and tight end, you're not going to be that good.

[B]

Google Doc for the weights tracked from last year to 2026, spring to now. Are you saying you have one mama, or you want Ian to make one?

[C]

I already have one. I don't use Google Doc.

[B]

But put on Google Docs, share it with the people. Or will that that hurt your competitive edge,

[C]

y'?

[B]

All.

[C]

I will tell you all what you need to know.

[B]

I share my stats with you guys every Tuesday. You guys can see them. I'm a man of the people. Heavy lifting is code for steroids, right? I refuse to believe lifting heavy was ever not the mantra. No, it's not codes for steroids. Even though at times we have advocated

[C]

for such usage amongst we would never.

[B]

But I refuse to believe the heavy lifting was never part of the mantra. It really wasn't. Like there's a reason why our reporting all this off season is like they've an added emphasis to live heavy. Well, if you have an added emphasis to live heavy, then that's an admission that you weren't at least maximizing it's not like they were, you know, doing planks to gain weight. Of course they were lifting weights. But clearly there's an added emphasis on. On actual strength here too.

[C]

They did a lot of ISO type stuff. Geocaching, caching. 69. They would. There's like, there's two, two ways to lift. You can do like isolated lifts that like force you to use proper form over like a limited range of motions. You can target particular muscle groups. And then the idea is if you target specific movements and specific groups, you'll actually get really strong. And then there's just do the Olympic lifts as heavy as you freaking can.

[B]

For low rap.

[C]

For low rap. And the second one is actually better for. Especially for like linemen and tight ends. It just. It's better.

[B]

I agree.

[C]

And they don't. They haven't been as committed to that consistently in the past.

[B]

Any word on Hudson? Nope. What did Sark say or the Texas camp? Say we are monitoring the situation or something like that.

[C]

I have so many questions about that.

[B]

Well, yeah, go ahead and share them, man. We take a little pause from the roster.

[C]

I would understand them welcoming him back. I would understand him wanting to come back since the NFL is not really working. I think he already did like some rookie camp stuff in the NFL and submitted through the draft process and all that. For him to come back, I feel like is garbage. Yeah, I mean I. I get it for him. It'd be awesome. I don't want to like take. Take that away from him. But rules wise, like, what do we do?

[B]

I would agree, like I wish we would change the rules that you can go through the process and if you don't, you can come back for one year. Like I'm fine with that, but that's not been the rules. But on the flip side, on the

[C]

basketball, it doesn't have eligibility left.

[B]

So two things. Basketball, they've already let this occur and so they already set a precedent there. So it is kind of the rule that you can. And then I'm not so sympathetic to Hudson's case because he played a ton of reps for four years. It'd be different if he had to sit multiple years and you know, and barely got snaps. He was at a starter level for pretty much four years. Yeah. So I'm not sympathetic to that side of it either. He. He played plenty.

[C]

If they want to do the sort of semi retroactive 5 to play 5 and he gets it. I don't think it's like some huge injustice. I just get. I get antsy every time they push the envelope on this stuff, bringing him in makes me nervous. Like, are they actually that interested in bringing him in? And are they only interested in it as like a, hey, this guy can play center and guard and he gives us some leeway. That could maybe be fine. But then it still makes me nervous if they think that that's like an important thing to add.

[B]

I don't know if they're like, necessarily that's important thing to add. I think it just doesn't hurt. I mean, they have the scholarship. Why not bring in a depth player that at least knows the scheme? I. It'd be different if the motivation was like, Hudson, hey, man, we need you to come back. Versus just like, hey, I want to come back. I'm just like, all right, we have a scholarship. Like, you know that those are two very different things to me. And I assume it's the, the one where they're like, yeah, come be depth.

[C]

See people see you say this, you say they have a scholarship. I don't think he's coming back if they're not going to give him nil.

[B]

Well, yeah, they'll give him nil for another.

[C]

People are like, it has nothing to do with the outlook. Well, it has something to do with it. Especially if we get to fall camp and he's like in the main rotation and then you're like, okay, well, it's just good for depth. Okay, well, if he's in there for depth, then that's you.

[B]

Is he for taking our other development.

[C]

There is a trade off. You are taking reps from someone else. So that's like, oh, he's. It's all value add and there's no downside or possible consequence. Not true. There's a lot of downside. Impossible. There's. Hey, maybe he's not that much better than anyone or he's not better than anyone, but Flood is just like, forget it. I'd rather have this guy that I developed myself. There's that temptation for Flood, which we've seen him succumb to in the past. Yeah, sure.

[B]

Okay, sure.

[C]

There's the. What if he's actually the best left guard on the team, even if he's not meaningfully better than last year? That's really concerning. That ends up being concerning.

[B]

But it's still a good. If he's the best guard, then, you know.

[C]

Yeah, if he's the best guard, then it's. You're glad we got him. But that's pretty. Pretty.

[B]

It's not great news.

[C]

Believable. If that position is your problem all year and then you come back and the best solution is to bend the rules to bring back this. Okay. And then there's the, like taking. Taking reps away from other dudes. Potential problem. So we'll see. He may. He may be like a really good addition. Maybe he'll start. Maybe he'll like, save the season. I wouldn't rule that out at all. They were like, they were decent with him and Robertson last year.

[B]

Yeah. Once they made the switch, towards the

[C]

end, they made the switch, which they made hilariously late. That was. That was so bizarre.

[B]

The whole thing was bizarre, man. I'm not mad at it.

[C]

I'm tempted to ask Sark questions. I'm about to fly to Tampa later today and I'm tempted to ask Sark questions about the offensive line. Like, what the heck happened with Netto, man?

[B]

Dude, if you could get that answered, man, you would. You'd be.

[C]

But I don't think Stark's not going

[B]

to give you an answer on it. What you can do if you want.

[C]

People really want it either.

[B]

Oh, the people want it.

[C]

They really want next. They don't. They don't want someone taking a magnifying glass to last year. They want to hear about the upcoming season. I think if you want. Some people want the magnifying glass, but

[B]

just talk about the state of college football and he'll talk for 20 minutes. It's a.

[C]

It's a.

[B]

He's very open about that, but depending on his mood, man, sometimes he's not hearing anything like that. So. You're right. What?

[C]

Oh, James Oliver said Hudson's in grad school and then on campus already. Why not see if he can. Here's another thing. I was kind of hoping that if Hudson comes back and he's like, awesome, I'd be like, I wonder if he's done a little bit of NFL or private strength and conditioning.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But if he's just been on Texas all the time and like, maybe working out with the team, then. Then you lose that, too.

[B]

Yeah. I don't know.

[C]

It.

[B]

It's only upsetting. If the secret communication line was we need you, that's when it would be disappointing. But other than that, I think it's fine. I mean, you pay him lightly in nil. It's not going to be significant. He will take some reps from some younger guys, but also trying to maximize arches last year. All right. Yeah. You guys like the Hudson topic. But before we discuss more of that, let's hear a word here if you're running a business in Texas, real estate, construction, manufacturing. I've got to tell you about fellow Longhorn Drew Smith with Hub International. Most companies are still operating with the same insurance program they had when they first opened their doors. What is the problem with that, Ian? The business has grown, changed, evolved, but the insurance never did. And that's where Drew is different. He doesn't believe in firing up the quote machine, blasting your information out to 20 carriers and hoping for the best. That also save your inbox. You ever put one of those things in the quote machine for like, I don't know, home insurance, and then they stalk you for 80 years. He believes in building long term partnerships and creating insurance programs tailored to the business you actually have today. Drew's team evaluates risk from the ground up, identifies coverage gaps before they turn into costly uninsured claims, and then they design a strategy that protects what you've built. And when something does go wrong, insurance isn't supposed to disappear when you need it most. Hub's dedicated Central Texas claims team takes care of you. They are local, y'.

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[C]

All right, I've said it gives me a lot of pause and hesitation, even though I fully acknowledge it could be a season saving event.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, it wasn't great to hear it, but I'm not upset. What do you want? What do you two want to hear from Sarka? Media day.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Ian, what are you gonna ask him?

[C]

A direct answer to my question.

[B]

Are you crafting it in a way that you know you'll get it? How do you challenge the throne out there?

[C]

Ian, I have put not. I don't have a plan just as of yet. I'll have to strategize this perhaps.

[B]

Are you gonna get a feel day of see what his vibes are is if he's Smiling or if he's stone face.

[C]

Now I need to figure out, you know, suck can be kind of forthcoming if you can be forthcoming about strategy. If you ask him a good question about strategy, he'll kind of lay it out. A lot of coaches are like this. They're so used to dodging questions and being cagey about interpersonal dynamics and drama and stuff that people normally ask about. And then you give them a question about scheme and either A, they're like I don't want to try to explain this to y' all because I know you don't know what I'm talking about and then you get a crappy answer or B, he just takes it in good faith and sometimes are they're even more forthcoming than they they would normally be because they're not used to answering real questions about high level tactics.

[B]

I think it's safer to do it outside of season because a couple times Stark will be like I'm not telling you the game plan, I'm not telling you the game plan in season. So I think too if you turn it into like here's an opportunity to a mini clinic and I'm genuinely curious observer and I'm not trying to give information Ohio State, I think you can get a good answer there.

[C]

I may ask questions about what he learned about Arch Manning skill set last year and what was different maybe than he expected or better or worse because it felt like they got into progression passing later in the year after opening just trying to do like play action RPO and then being shockingly not good at it. And so I'm gonna see if I can craft something to get into that. Did you see that breakdown I sent you of one of their drop back plays that they ran a ton against Vanderbilt?

[B]

No, I haven't read that article yet. The one you sent me like two days ago.

[C]

Yeah, it's tremendous.

[B]

I'll read it. So if, if Sark had to answer the question, what would be your number one

[C]

if he had to answer the question like he I was going to ask him something and he was going to tell me exactly the right answer. Truth serum, True serum. It'd be about last year's offensive line detail to me when and how you knew that Netta wasn't playing at left guard and y' all stop process on how to fix the offensive line. Last year happened.

[B]

Why did you do this to me?

[C]

I have like some idea but there are still some big holes.

[B]

Yeah, Alex January, he's at 300-8-6-5. We'll move a Little quicker because we're halfway steady and we're like I don't know a fifth through the thing. Colin Simmons 246 at six foot three. Any change there? That doesn't seem like there was no

[C]

I in my notes. I have him six two. I don't believe the six three listing.

[B]

And we have the updated. And then we have Ian's belief index too.

[C]

Well sometimes they give guys an inch or two and I always. I always give that a little bit of a side eye.

[B]

What I like here between Xena College

[C]

and sometimes most of the time I don't.

[B]

What I like here between xena and Lance Jackson. 272 and 274. So large edges. 6 foot 5 and 6 foot 5. So that's awesome.

[C]

Man.

[B]

We have actual size there. Not just pure kind of speed rusher bodies like a Colin Simmons. So I think that's really important. Both those guys got their weight up with must champ coming. And that was something that you pointed out. We all pointed out needed to happen for those guys and it did.

[C]

Those guys are playing inside in some packages either as a four eye or as like a passing down three technique.

[B]

So we have a rogue bow and more of that traditional speed wrestler size at 238.

[C]

A robot a roadbow is up from 225 to 238.

[B]

That's great.

[C]

That's a huge jump.

[B]

Yep. And he has the last step behind Colin Simmons. He has the fastest step on the team.

[C]

You know. Wait, wait wait, wait. Real quick on a road bill. He was stuck in like 220 for a little while. Like I know he's only a rich freshman but that's a couple roster sec. That's a couple updated roster cycles. He spins one spring with Richard Wesley and all of a sudden you see that way go.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So maybe some competition helped.

[B]

The roadbow there was like at 252. Still lighter than what I think his frame could maximize that.

[C]

He's probably trying to stay lean and fast.

[B]

Carlton at 280. Young guy that we expect eventually the future to bump in. Potentially at 6 foot 5. 280. But he could also hold there as. As a four eye.

[C]

Yeah, I need to see what he moves like.

[B]

Wesley 64258.

[C]

Dude, he's gonna end up playing at like 270 as a jack because he's also a member.

[B]

He left high school a year early. So it's not even that he's a college freshman. I mean he's a high school senior

[C]

right now at that size, he's naturally thick. Yeah.

[B]

Brad Spence, I thought he'd be taller. 249. It made sense. He played linebacker a bunch, but I don't know.

[C]

I love that they have him as edge linebacker.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I believe that somebody asked me this for the deep dive and I'm pro. We're probably not going to get into it in the deep dive. I believe that Brad Spence's role this year is Sam, linebacker and base packages. Like if they play like a 4:3 or 3:4 with, you know, old school positions. I think Brad Spence is your starting Sam. And then in any sub package, I think he's the edge that comes in opposite Simmons and then they slide those bigger ends inside. So I think he's going to end up playing like 20 to 30 snaps most games. Between those two stuff, I don't know if he's going to play much inside linebacker. That'll be the thing to watch.

[B]

Properly sized kicker. 6 foot 3, 221. We have a linebacker size kicker if we need to use him. Yeah. I mean all of our kickers have like good weight. All right, Biles, this is for. Yeah. First group I went to. Biles is 6 foot 1, 222.

[C]

It's been steady the whole time.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

The.

[B]

The bottom range, 220 is like the cutoff for me. Really. 230 is what I want to see. But 222 so is lighter at 6 foot 1.

[C]

222.

[B]

Tyler Atkinson as a freshman at 6 foot 1, 219. So right under that threshold. Cosi, who can play some. Sam is 6 foot 3, 235.

[C]

He's down a little bit, like creeping up. He's like very slowly adding weight. Atkinson is. He's like only adding. He's obviously only adding good weight.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like only lean, lean muscle. No fat at all.

[B]

I love that though. 235 is like.

[C]

No, not Apollo Atkinson.

[B]

Okay. Atkinson.

[C]

Yeah. Because he's still only. Only 219. But you know that, that 219 is like extremely lean.

[B]

Yeah. He's always at the workout, the fancy cool guy workout facilities in Austin. TY Anthony Smith, first player I went to 6 to 1. 214 pounds. There was talk that he was at like 205 right at the beginning.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Which is just like not a playable weight if you're at safety weight. So 214 still not where it needs to be. But it's. It's better than 205, that's for sure. I don't expect this to Meaningfully change to the upside in season. So he'll probably be really realistically playing at like 210.

[C]

If he can stay healthy in the upper body or just in general and then really hit the weights next winter, that could be where he could finally get to like 2:30 or whatever.

[B]

But stay very hydrated. Juice crier. 61241. Now we got some linebacker weight here.

[C]

He's down just a little bit.

[B]

That's fine. Which is.

[C]

Yep. He's the one that can be down.

[B]

Yep. Rocky Cummings is already a freshman. 6 foot 4, 227. I like to see that. So he'll easily be.

[C]

I keep cutting you off. Go ahead.

[B]

I just said he'll easily be in the 230s.

[C]

Yeah. He's also gaining it slow and steady. They don't have. They don't do like bulk cycles with these guys.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It's funny.

[B]

Brady Sarkeesian. Hey. 225 Cunningham. 62198.

[C]

Oh, is he listed a linebacker again?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Huh.

[B]

So the 198 is not. Not ideal for the linebacker. So it's safety. Sure. But maybe has unique usage.

[C]

I wonder. That's interesting. He's. He's not on the fast track to the field at this rate.

[B]

Boswell. 228. Darius Snow. Transfer as well.

[C]

About Snow.

[B]

Yeah. 6 foot 1, 219.

[C]

Oh, let's pause down there. I need to add Darius Snow to my roster notes here real quick. 612 19. It's like a seventh year player.

[B]

Yeah. The weight upside is. Is not there.

[C]

Yeah. I don't. You're probably not going to see him. Probably not gonna see him this year. Honestly. We'll see.

[B]

Turn time already up to 295 which is good out of high school. Six foot four. Of course he has, you know, 25 at the max. 25 pounds to go. But really he could play at 305. A lot of our guys seemingly do.

[C]

I don't think he's. I don't think he needs to get that big to play. Depending on if he can play tackle or guard. If he plays guard he'll probably want to get a little heavier just so you can absorb more bull, more bull rush. But I'm telling you, that dude.

[B]

Yeah, he can. He can play tackle at 305.

[C]

He could play tackle right now at 295.

[B]

Yes. He could play it at 270 again. Optimized around plus 300.

[C]

Too far.

[B]

Dylan Sikorski, 6 foot 4, 335.

[C]

He's down 10 pounds.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Which is good. If you watched him in the spring, it was like, I appreciate how thick this dude is, but he cannot move well enough.

[B]

He had good power, he had good movement vertically. But he was the slower of the center options.

[C]

If he can, this may be the right way for him. You really just want him to be able to reach block on outside zone. So whatever weight that is, then great.

[B]

Devin Coleman. He's at 6 foot 5, 340.

[C]

Yeah. Those guys are huge. The Colemans.

[B]

Connor Robertson, 6 foot 4, 3 16. That's good size for a center.

[C]

Allegedly

[B]

K insurer 291. Melvin Sioner.

[C]

Sharer actually backed down a little bit because he was up to like around 300 and now he's down to 291.

[B]

Well, you don't want to see that. Melvin Siani, 6 foot 6, 317. Great. I thought he was going to come in lighter than that. Significantly lighter than that. Like 12 pounds lighter.

[C]

We don't really care about the tackles, do we?

[B]

No. That's why when they're at. That's why when they're at 317 though, it's like. Because I think they can play reasonably at 305. So it's just like. Okay. Added Armor. All good against the bull rush. Brandon Baker. Brandon Baker is at 315. Six foot four.

[C]

That's really good.

[B]

I thought he'd be lighter than that as well.

[C]

He is yet another lean, hard gainer kind of guy.

[B]

Then Goosebie is 6 foot 7, 325. So they're bigger than I thought they would be on a lot of the starters. So is that a good sign?

[C]

Yeah, sure.

[B]

Ian will not present. We need to see them blocking in game.

[C]

I Love Baker at 315. I think he actually got there in the spring. Well, they listed him there in the spring. If he can maintain that. You know, I wonder what he played at last year. I wonder if he got down like the 290s last year or not. I'm not. I don't know. I'm not super worried about these guys. Just who plays left card?

[B]

Jen Chapman.

[C]

330 up big Chapman is up from. He was like 300 last year. He was like 315 in the spring and now it's 3:30.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

So that's kind of interesting.

[B]

Jackson Christian is at 308.

[C]

He's down.

[B]

Kojo's a big boy at 339.

[C]

He's down a little bit. That's probably good.

[B]

Yeah. Once you start getting into kind of 340 +. I think it's unnecessary weight often. And then Jordan Coleman is at 356. Those brothers are big guys.

[C]

They're. Yep.

[B]

You can afford to. You can afford to lose some weight. You're not gaining. Losing weight would give you more speed gains than the gaining weight would give you strength gains at that point. Johnson, Newman is at 310.

[C]

Newman. Newman was like 3:30 at a. M. He came in in the spring and was like down to like 300. And you're like, really? And then you saw him in the spring and he looked much leaner and he moved pretty well. Now he's back to 310. It seems like he's kind of remaking his body in a very positive way. Whoa. Who's that guy? Paris Patterson. Is that a walk on?

[B]

Yeah, he's not. He's not a.

[C]

He's enormous for a walk on.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That's interesting. I wonder what his story is.

[B]

65354 out of East St. Louis.

[C]

Yeah, you'd think that he would be like at least on scholarship at Illinois State or something.

[B]

Nicholas Robertson is at 349. So that's stocky, man. 633-49.

[C]

Wait, wasn't he like.

[B]

It's a freshman too.

[C]

Wasn't he like small out of high school? Wasn't he like. Wasn't like the whole thing with him. It was like, well, he's a smaller guy and they're gonna see if they can add weight to him. And he's like, moves well it up on rival.

[B]

See what his weight was out of High School.

[C]

300 out of high school.

[B]

Yeah. That's significant weight gain. So.

[C]

Oh, his rival's picture looks thick though. A little heavy maybe. That just wasn't.

[B]

This is the second. This is the second I went to. I went to Ty Anthony Smith and then I went to Lawrence Senior. 6 foot 2, 316. Good.

[C]

So he played at, I think, a much heavier weight at Western Kentucky, didn't he?

[B]

They don't list his weight at Western Kentucky.

[C]

Really?

[B]

Yeah, it just gave his height him at like 320, I think.

[C]

Yeah, I had him at 320 before. All right, I'm gonna prove you. I'm gonna prove you wrong. Oh, wait, this is the wrong here. 20, 25 Western Kentucky. Seymour 62320.

[B]

Where are you?

[C]

If you go to the individual page, it only lists the height. If you back out to the full roster page, it lists the weight.

[B]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[C]

Amateur. Connor, you don't know the tricks rosters.

[B]

I Just assumed it was one of those teams, you know, that actually does the weight on the page too, but one of those cool schools that only gives height on the player page.

[C]

Oregon is really finicky about that till the actual season. Jim Harbaugh used to be like, who knows how tall they are. So annoying. So he's down like a little bit, but not much. They list him at 6 foot 2, which is.

[B]

He was working out too, while his. During his absence.

[C]

I didn't balloon. Yeah, that's a good point.

[B]

Yeah. So he was at least staying engaged physically during that period because it's not like. Yeah, he just let himself go. So that I was excited to see that.

[C]

If they list him at six foot two, that's even more evidence that he's like six foot or six foot one.

[B]

Yeah, I don't care about that that much with guards, man.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, I think you can have unique leverage advantages of being a shorter guard. Actually, I think hyper guard is overrated often.

[C]

Yep. Kansas State had this guard once, way back in the day, like when the back for like, like the 20 teens. It was like he looked like he was like 5 11, 285. And he would get under dudes on outside zone and drive them like you would not believe. It was so good at it. It was so funny.

[B]

Quarterbacks, quickly. We got to move quick. We got to shoot a show after this. We still got a bunch of players. All right. Dia is 206 pounds at 6 foot 3. Okay. KJ Lacey is a smaller guy at 6 foot 188, but he plays with confidence.

[C]

Bell has lost weight. Lacy is steadily climbing in his

[B]

archmain. 6 foot 4, 222 pounds down just a little bit. Okay. Yeah, this means. Yeah, it means nothing to me. He's a giant quarterback. M.J. morris, 6 foot 1, 201. Let's look at the backs. Billy Brown is 5 foot 9, 193 pounds.

[C]

I was watching some of Houston's defense for my substack Americas war game.substack.com the other day and I watched some of them against Arizona State and happened to take in some relic Brown just by like peripherally. He is so good. Connor. Yeah, he's like one of those guys where you're like, that was not the blocking.

[B]

Yeah, that's exactly what we need. It's exactly what we need.

[C]

He's so fast.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna. He's gonna do some exciting things. 5 foot 9, 193. Not as bad as you would think for A speedback. You know, you're worried about a speedback. You're like, is this Guy gonna be 175? No. He has significant size.

[C]

You saw him in the spring and he was like, player profile.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Jacked.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Thick limbs, just short.

[B]

Yep. And then Hollywood smothers, I think, right at the same weight at 193 and he's 5 foot 11. So not, you know, 220 pounders, but not liabilities of size either. Now Derek Cooper does bring some size as a true freshman at 212 pounds. 6 foot 1. 212. So we do have some size there.

[C]

Excited to see him.

[B]

Michael Terry. £229 at 6 foot 3. Add 10 and you can be our receiving tight end. You can hang out in the slot. Add £10 and that's where we're going to put you. You're not gonna be an inline blocker, but we won't even let you do HBAC stuff. But you will line up in the slot. And we were. No, he wasn't. No, he will not in the system, Ian. He will only be in the slot and he will.

[C]

He's not gonna block. He's not gonna play at Texas.

[B]

We're in a perfect world right now, Ian, that I'm creating also. It's not. This is not gonna happen. So. But he should add £10 and go into that room because he ran a seam in a fall camp clip I got and he looked awesome. I. I had to be like, who

[C]

was that last year?

[B]

Last year? Yeah.

[C]

Even holding out on me.

[B]

Well, you know, I get all the clips they let. So Texas only lets you show like two minutes of clips, but we get like 15 minutes worth of content. So I. Yeah, so like whenever our. Any, any of the outlets, when they go to these practices, they're.

[C]

Oh, from an open practice.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

We're only allowed to publish certain amount, but we are. We can take unlimited.

[C]

Every once in a while, some actual practice footage leaks out into the world.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

And. And it's like on the down low. That stuff is always fascinating. Yeah, that's how we would saw. That's how we would see like Luke Brockermeyer picking off Casey Thompson.

[B]

The. Yeah. The black market of Texas film.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, don't show anyone. Do not share it. All right. Jet Walker 224. I know people are excited about old Jet, but he's got a good size already. James Simon's at 208.

[C]

That's good.

[B]

Niblet 510, 189.

[C]

That's that's pretty thick.

[B]

Yeah, that's okay. Return punts, man. We're all good. All right. So tight end I know is important to you as well. Zunis is at 259. At 6 foot 5, he's pretty steady.

[C]

This doesn't really change that much.

[B]

Yep. But that's the weight you like to see. Nick Townsend at 250 is actually bigger than I thought he would be. I thought he would be a 240 guy.

[C]

He's up a little bit. He was a 240 guy.

[B]

Yeah. Six foot three, 250 pounds. Show them. We won't tell. Oh, don't worry. Texas. Texas World will watch the videos and contact you immediately if they come out.

[C]

Yeah, I almost got kicked off Twitter for showing Oklahoma all 22.

[B]

Yeah, Oklahoma is actually really bad about it. They'll strike their own content creators. But if you're a Texas creator and you show it, they'll don't. They. They're, like, vindictive about it because you're a rival, but they'll go after their own people that are just doing, like, a good service to the fans. OU is really bad about it.

[C]

I posted how bad Michael Hawkins was in the week before the Texas game when they played, like, Illinois State or something, and I got struck.

[B]

Yep. Yeah, they're tech. So Texas is not bad like that. Texas won't strike you or, like, do punitive stuff like that. But you will get, like, a DM or an email about that. You have violated the rules.

[C]

Spencer Barker. What's Richard Barker listed at?

[B]

239.

[C]

Okay, we gotta get that. That's a rookie numbers Rich. You gotta get that up.

[B]

Get that up, brother. Spencer Shannon, 260. I did not expect him to weigh more than Mizunas, even though it's by a pound.

[C]

He actually leaned up a little bit over the summer, so he lost, like, five pounds.

[B]

So six foot seven, too. Man, can he make that leap this year.

[C]

That's. That's the key. Here's the thing is I'm pretty sure Shannon is gonna be. They're gonna, like, throw him the ball. I think he's going to be like, a passable blocker who gets thrown to more than people think. I think that's what's going to happen this year.

[B]

Yeah, I can see that. Especially if they scheme them open like we do. Winston, six foot one, short here, but 245, so he's got that real H back kind of build. Full backy. Full backy build.

[C]

Yep. Oh, forgotten. Will Randall is He still Randall.

[B]

Enjoy your stay, man. Enjoy. Enjoy your stay. 6:54, £249.

[C]

Just somehow I was thinking that he had transferred.

[B]

No, man, he's living. He's living his life, dude.

[C]

Good.

[B]

He's just fratting out, hanging out, and then you get to be on the Texas Longhorns while you do it. Pretty cool, man. The freshman here too, 238, dude, he

[C]

was like the centerpiece of his arch's high school offense.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. All right.

[C]

It would have been better if he hadn't got hurt. Wingo is heavy. Mosley's back up a little bit.

[B]

Is there a number that's you want from Mosley? I'll make up arbitrarily. He should be 205 if he's.

[C]

If they're gonna block in bunch and he's gonna be like a most a point of attack inline guy, then around 200 is good, but it doesn't have to be that heavy. It's so much more about technique and effort than going 99 is fine.

[B]

Batman, 6 foot, £166. Don't care. Don't care at all.

[C]

I don't like that at corner, but I also don't like him playing corner in the first place.

[B]

I don't like him playing corner at all. And I wish we would quit allowing this to even occur. All the reps at wide receiver, you

[C]

can tell it's so artificial because Sark is like, it'll be back at receiver in the fall.

[B]

Yeah. It was clearly just Bishop was like, I'll come to Texas, but I want to play both sides. So Sark is like honoring that, but everybody knows it's like, dude, you're about to go first round, catch like 12 touchdowns. Who cares about corner? You stop three touchdowns, but you can produce 17. It's an obvious equation towards the offense. Kik, 6' 2, 181.

[C]

Down a little bit.

[B]

I want him up. I think he's such an awesome contested receiver vertical threat. I would like him to go to the heavier side, become even more dominant in that regard.

[C]

We'll see. We haven't seen him. What he looks like Cam getting jammed up. Whatever, cam.

[B]

Come on. Six foot three, 204.

[C]

That's good size.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

It could probably be heavier, but 204 is great player.

[B]

I'm super excited about for the future is Colin Brown.

[C]

This one is really interesting because he's like the fastest guy on the team, right?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

He's 202 pounds.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So I have that. Everybody's Is interesting questions for me.

[B]

And. And he's smart and skilled. He was so smart and skilled in his huddle, I automatically assumed he was a bad athlete.

[C]

My only question is sometimes when you get guys. So he's obviously like pretty muscular and powerfully built and it makes him fast. Sometimes guys like that that are really big, muscled and super fast get hurt. Yeah, easily because they're like, they're. That's. This is the bill. Like if y' all have ever heard Paul talk about Porsches versus I don't know what the comparison is. They're like Porsche type athletes where they look amazing, the performance is unbelievable. But you drive them for just like a little bit, everything starts breaking. Sometimes the guys that fit that profile are the dudes that are really heavy and strong like this.

[B]

It's a good point. He does have that build. Chris Stewards at 184 and then Daley McCutcheon at 183 at 5:11. So you would definitely want a little bit bigger. Right. If we're doing those bunches and you're going to have to lead block. But right now he's built like a speed slot.

[C]

People have some examples of when I'm talking about Jordan Whittington was kind of like that. That's definitely true. He may have also over trained though because his like brother had like a gym and he was just like very. He worked out really hard. Cosby and Duvernay were built like that. Those dudes were notoriously durable.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Colin Brown is like Cosby or Duvernay then. That's gonna be awesome.

[B]

I would love a Duvernay again. Again. All right. Burkh Halter, 6 foot 3, 196. So good size there. I am excited to see whenever he does get in the game. I think that was a smart grab. All right, let's see what we got here. All right, our boys. Red Anderson holding it down. Hudson pal shouts out Ty Boat. Right. All right, good stuff. And then Sark right here is at 6 foot 183. Sark needs to get his weight up for sure. We are not going to be able to do the OU portion of the show because we were went through this

[C]

whole roster but it was way too positive. Anyway. We don't need to bring that kind

[B]

of that negative energy of mentioning ou.

[C]

We don't need the negative energy of speaking positively about Oklahoma.

[B]

Yeah, you're right.

[C]

Let me just say this. Let me just say this. They brought in Kevin Wilson and his job title is like assistant assistant head coach. On offense, which is a really weird title. I listened to him on Gabe and Teddy, which is always great. Listen to those guys. And he sounded like he's like doing a little quality control, but kind of also like maybe at arm's length from offensive coordinator Brent Arbuckle. The last time Oklahoma hired Kevin Wilson on offense was in 2002, when they wanted to start moving away from the Air Raid to run the ball. And and then Brent Venables does the exact same thing. We've got this Air Raid that was a little iffy after one year. Let's bring in Kevin Wilson. If I'm Arbuckle, I'm looking over my shoulder constantly.

[B]

Heaven ou World also talked about the added emphasis on the run and under center too. Yeah, exactly. So it looks like they're going to try to go a little bit more smash mouth, but whatever. Whatever man. Oh you Everyone head over to Inside Texas. Join for $1, then 50 off your first year and then stay tuned and Sark Speaks tomorrow afternoon at SEC Media Days. Ian will be there to present wonderful questions that will get wonderful responses. Everyone stay locked in for the rest of the shows coming at you today. See you later.

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