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Texas Football: 3 signees who’ll have instant impact in 2020

By Connor Muldowney

HOUSTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 14: Head coach Tom Herman of the Texas Longhorns prepares to lead the team onto the field before the game against the Rice Owls at NRG Stadium on September 14, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
HOUSTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 14: Head coach Tom Herman of the Texas Longhorns prepares to lead the team onto the field before the game against the Rice Owls at NRG Stadium on September 14, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /
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Tom Herman has assembled yet another elite recruiting class for Texas football as it sits at No. 9 in the country and these guys could play immediately.

Landing yet another top-10 recruiting class, Tom Herman has Texas in a position to take that next step as a program. The Longhorns have been fighting to be “back” for about a decade-plus now and reeling in last year’s No. 3 class and this year’s group ranked No. 9 should yield positive results.

There are plenty of young guys who could see the field early on and have an immediate impact on the depth chart, starting with eight early enrollees.

Which 2020 signees will have an instant impact for the Longhorns?

Texas has a couple of young guys in the backfield in Keaontay Ingram who is entering his junior year and Roschon Johnson who’s fresh off a stellar freshman season in which he rushed for 649 yards and seven touchdowns on 5.3 yards per touch.

Ingram wasn’t so bad either, leading the team with 853 yards and seven touchdowns on 5.9 yards per touch. Those two should combine for a solid one-two punch in 2020, but when Bijan Robinson gets to campus, he may shake things up.

The five-star from Tucson is the No. 1 running back in the entire 2020 class and stands 6-foot-0 and 200 pounds. He picked the Longhorns over about two dozen other programs and the All-American as earned some impressive comps, including one from Blair Angulo, a Mountain Region recruiting analyst, who compared him to Alvin Kamara.

If Texas gets a Kamara-type running back in Robinson to show up from day one, he could take over in the backfield or, at the very least, break the two-deep.

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