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Why did Baltimore covet Duvernay so highly? All the same reasons that made him a breakout sensation for the Longhorns in 2019 with one of the best seasons by a wide receiver in school history. "Well he's an explosive guy - he's really, really fast," DeCosta said. "He's a highly-competitive guy with strong hands. I don't think I saw a drop this year and he had over 100 catches. He's really good with the football in his hands; he's a guy that can break tackles. He runs with an angry style. We think he's highly competitive. He's just a guy that, as I watched his tape, I got excited about him and his potential for us.

"He's the type of guy that when you watch him play - players in general, typically if you watch enough tape, you get a vibe about them. There's a vibe that they sort of emit. And I would say with Devin, he's an angry football player. I like his style of play, I like his energy, I like his competitive spirit, I like his toughness and I like his speed. I think those things translate to Baltimore really well. I think he's a good fit for who we are, and I think he's going to be a guy that's going to help us." If that wasn't high enough praise for Duvernay, DeCosta went on to compare him to some of the toughest, most productive receivers in franchise history like Steve Smith and Anquan Boldin. "That's what I see when I watch a guy like Devin, I see some of those same things," DeCosta said. "Now their styles might be different, the skills might be different, but the mentality that I see, the effort, the drive, the determination, the competitive toughness, to me that reminds me of those guys." - Burnt Orange Nation

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WR Devin Duvernay, Texas
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04/29/20 - Tarik Black, Sr/2021, Texas, 6-3, 213 (DS#55 WR) + More +

Tarik Black posted to Instagram Friday night a video of him submitting his final class assignment. After three frustrating years on the football field, the Michigan wide receiver was done. Graduating. Now, just a few days later, the wide receiver announced his next stop: Texas. The decision to transfer was not a surprise (he announced in December plans to put his name in the NCAA's transfer portal), but the destination was unknown. While Black navigated through his final semester at Michigan, he kept his recruitment rather quiet. He never publicly announced a list of schools as candidates, nor did he reveal campus visits. Because he graduated, the 6-foot-3, 215-pound Black will be immediately eligible to play in the fall, should a season take place. He'll have two years of eligibility remaining after apparently obtaining a medical redshirt for his shortened season in 2017. - Ann Arbor News

(DS#55 WR) Sr/2021

WR Tarik Black, Texas
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04/18/20 - Devin Duvernay, Sr/2020, Texas, 5-10, 200 (DS#15 WR) + More +

After spending his first three seasons on the Forty Acres in a relatively limited role, thanks in large part to the presences of Collin Johnson and Lil'Jordan Humphrey, Devin Duvernay blossomed into one of the nation's truly elite receivers as a senior. Following a move from his previous role on the outside as a Z receiver, Duvernay thrived in the slot, just as Humphrey had only a year ago, only more so. Entering his final campaign in Austin, Duvernay had only 70 career receptions to his name for 1,082 yards, but surpassed that total in a single season, tallying a Big 12-best 106 receptions for 1,386 yards; efforts good enough to respectively rank third and fifth nationally.

Along the way, the first-team All-Big 12 talent emerged into a legitimate NFL prospect who's almost certain to hear his name called at some point throughout the 2020 NFL Draft, with the most notable proof being in the pass-catching. A tremendously sure-handed receiver, Duvernay dropped only five of the 244 passes intended for him throughout his tenure at Texas, and hauled in 176 of those targets; making for a mind-boggling drop rate of only 2.04 percent. That number reduces to zero percent in the red zone, where Duvernay never dropped a pass as a Longhorn. - Austin American Statesman

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WR Devin Duvernay, Texas
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04/17/20 - Sam Ehlinger, Sr/2021, Texas, 6-1, 220 (DS#9 QB) + More +

Ehlinger's GoFundMe fundraiser has crossed $100,000, thanks to a donation from Nick Foles' foundation. "It's been an awesome effort, and I'm very appreciative of everyone that's helped out." Health wise, Ehlinger said he's moved past a stubborn rib injury that cropped up again in February. Quarantine life for Heisman Trophy candidates is just as miserable as it is for us mere mortals. At least Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger is stuck at home with another Longhorn, his younger brother Jake, a linebacker. "Obviously I have a workout partner," Ehlinger said Thursday, "and he's probably gotten sick of being in quarantine with me because I'll take him in the backyard and I'll pelt footballs at him when I want to throw." Targeting a return to Royal-Memorial Stadium is far more tricky.

Ehlinger spends his days working out in a makeshift weight room in his mom's garage, taking online classes and trying to connect with teammates tossed far and wide. Like everybody else, the senior hopes for the best. "I'm going to approach this as the season is going to start on time," Ehlinger said on a conference call with reporters. "I'm going to take every day as if it's another day when I'm at the facility." Ehlinger has long known his power extends far beyond the football field. On March 25, the Westlake product started a COVID-19 fundraiser on the GoFundMe website with the goal of raising $1 million. On Wednesday, it crossed $100,000. - Austin American Statesman

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QB Sam Ehlinger, Texas
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04/06/20 - Denzel Okafor, rSr/2022, Texas, 6-3, 307 (DS#34 OG) + More +

Texas offensive lineman Denzel Okafor has withdrawn his name from the NCAA transfer portal and will stay with the Longhorns, according to a team spokesman. Okafor put his name into the portal in March, getting the opportunity to test his marketability with other schools. The junior from Lewisville is on track to graduate and would've been a grad transfer somewhere else. However, Okafor was likely to be a key rotation figure on the 2020 offensive line at UT. He's played in 39 career games with five starts. Any athlete who puts his or her name into the transfer portal is allowed to make contact with other schools about a potential scholarship. However, it's up to the athlete's current school to decide whether the athlete can stay on scholarship, if both sides work things out. - Austin American Statesman

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OG Denzel Okafor, Texas
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04/02/20 - Brandon Jones, Sr/2020, Texas, 5-11, 198 (DS#6 FS) + More +

Texas was supposed to host a NFL job fair for its seniors on Wednesday. The Longhorns' annual pro timing day, which was scheduled for Wednesday, would have given players with professional aspirations a chance to work out in front of NFL scouts and representatives. But UT's pro day, along with similar senior showcases across the country, has been canceled and won't be rescheduled. Texas coach Tom Herman conceded recently that "it's really difficult to support those guys" with Austin's shelter-in-place order in effect. "The best thing we can do as coaches is pick up the phone and give as good of recommendations as we can," said Herman, who spoke with New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick on Sunday.

Longhorns safety Brandon Jones, who started 35 career games, was among those who planned on working out for scouts on Wednesday. He'll instead spend the day in Frisco, where he's been getting workouts in on the football field at Plano West High School and at a friend's home gym. He had shoulder surgery in January and was unable to work out at the NFL scouting combine in February. He still isn't doing bench presses. High-pointing jumps during positional drills also may have been a problem on Wednesday. Jones was still looking forward to running the 40-yard dash and doing other agility tests for scouts, though. "There's people that are at a worse disadvantage than I am, if you think about the guys … that didn't have the opportunity to get invited to the combine. Their pro day was going to be their combine," Jones said. "It sucks, but it's something that we can't control. You kind of just have to play your cards how they are." - Austin American Statesman

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FS Brandon Jones, Texas
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03/27/20 - Sam Ehlinger, Sr/2021, Texas, 6-1, 220 (DS#9 QB) + More +

After leading Texas to 19 wins over the past three seasons, Sam Ehlinger is doing his part to beat an even bigger opponent. Ehlinger took to social media on Friday to announce a fundraiser for COVID-19 relief. Through a GoFundMe page, the Longhorn quarterback said he wants to raise $1 million. The donations will be distributed to both national and local organizations like the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Central Texas Food Bank. Within the first hour of Ehlinger's fundraiser, he had raised around $5,000. That number had tripled as of Friday afternoon. Names on the list of donors included Mike Yurcich and Tim Beck.

On Friday, Texas coach Tom Herman told that American-Statesman that "I'm just so proud. Ever since I've known him, he has used his celebrity to help other people, more than anybody I've ever seen. And it's real. It is not a show. It's important to him. … Such a great representation not just for Texas football, not just for the University of Texas, not just for Austin, not just for the state of Texas but for the entire country. It's just amazing. Amazing." - Austin American Statesman

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QB Sam Ehlinger, Texas
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03/24/20 - Denzel Okafor, rSr/2022, Texas, 6-3, 307 (DS#34 OG) + More +

Texas fifth-year offensive lineman Denzel Okafor could opt to finish his college career elsewhere after submitting his name into the transfer portal. A school official confirmed Okafor was now in the NCAA's transfer database as of Wednesday evening. A four-star guard out of Lewisville who signed in 2016, Okafor played in 39 games with five career starts. He started one game at right tackle last season, a 23-21 loss at Iowa State on Nov. 16, and contributed on special teams throughout the year.

His biggest impact came in 2017 as a sophomore. Okafor that season started the opener against Maryland then made three more starts throughout the year, Tom Herman's first as UT's coach. But the former All-American appeared in only one game as a junior and ended up redshirting in 2018. "This was a guy that, thank god for the new redshirt rule because he kind of wasted a year, if you will," Herman said last March. "I think he played 27 snaps as a true freshman. We were fortunate that rule came into place." - Houston Chronicle

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OG Denzel Okafor, Texas
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02/17/20 - Devin Duvernay, Sr/2020, Texas, 5-10, 200 (DS#15 WR) + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Devin Duvernay, WR, Texas,...Duvernay, a native of Sachse, Texas, played in all 52 games during his collegiate career at UT, making 30 starts. As a senior in 2019, he caught 106 passes (No. 3 nationally/No. 1 Big 12) for 1,386 yards (No. 5/No. 1) and nine touchdowns. His 106 receptions and 1,386 receiving yards are both the second-most in school history. Duvernay earned All-Big 12 First Team honors from the league's head coaches and received honorable mention as the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. He logged seven 100-yard games, tying the school record held by Jordan Shipley (2009) and Wane McGarity (1998), and was the only Power Five receiver to log at least six catches in 12 games last season. - Texas Football

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WR Devin Duvernay, Texas
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02/17/20 - Brandon Jones, Sr/2020, Texas, 5-11, 198 (DS#6 FS) + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Brandon Jones, FS, Texas,...Jones, a native of Nacogdoches, Texas, played in 46 career games with 35 starts during his UT career. As a senior, he racked up 86 total tackles, the second-most by a Longhorn in 2019, and added 4.5 tackles for loss, four pass breakups, two interceptions, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. Jones earned second-team All-Big 12 honors from the league's head coaches and was a semifinalist for both the Lott IMPACT Trophy and Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award. - Texas Football

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FS Brandon Jones, Texas
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02/17/20 - Collin Johnson, Sr/2020, Texas, 6-6, 222 (DS#27 WR) + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Collin Johnson, WR, Texas,...Johnson, a native of San Jose, Calif., played in 45 games and made 29 starts during his UT career. Despite missing six games due to injury in 2019, Johnson caught 38 passes for 559 yards and three touchdowns. His 38 receptions and 559 receiving yards were both the No. 2 mark among Longhorn receivers last season. Johnson closed out his career on the Forty Acres with 188 receptions (No. 6 in school history) for 2,624 yards (No. 5) and 15 touchdowns (No. 9). He was also an Academic All-Big 12 First Team selection as a senior in 2019. - Texas Football

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WR Collin Johnson, Texas
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02/17/20 - Malcolm Roach, Sr/2020, Texas, 6-2, 297 (DS#19 DT) + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Malcolm Roach, DT, Texas,...Roach, a native of Baton Rouge, La., saw the field 47 times and started on 23 occasions at UT. He played all across the front seven during his time on the Forty Acres, but closed out his career in 2019 as a stalwart along the defensive line. As a senior, Roach logged 40 total tackles (24 solo), nine tackles for loss, three sacks, three quarterback hurries and blocked one kick. He logged at least four tackles in each of Texas' last six games in 2019, highlighted by a five-tackle day at TCU. Roach also recorded a career-high four tackles for loss and one sack against the Horned Frogs. - Texas Football

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DT Malcolm Roach, Texas
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12/31/19 - Sam Ehlinger, Sr/2021, Texas, 6-1, 220 (DS#9 QB) + More +

Sam Ehlinger passed for three touchdowns and ran for another, and Texas excised the frustrations of a disappointing regular season with a dominant 38-10 win over No. 12 Utah in the Alamo Bowl on Tuesday night. After a 10-win season in 2018 set up a Top 10 ranking to start 2019, Texas underwhelmed in a season the Longhorns expected to contend for the Big 12 title. Instead, they ended the year with both the offensive and defensive coordinators getting replaced. For one game at least, Texas (8-5) wiped all that away with a bruising and convincing win over a Utah team that only a month ago was on the verge of making the College Football Playoff. The Utes (11-3) didn't get there after they were swamped in the Pac-12 title game by Oregon and perhaps struggled to shake off the heartbreak of what could have been. - AP College Football

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QB Sam Ehlinger, Texas
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12/19/19 - Darion Dunn, rSr/2022, Texas, 5-11, 185 (DS#125 CB) + More +

2019 ALL-SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): DB Darion Dunn, McNeese, Jr., Oakdale, La.,...Dunn tied for the conference lead with five pass interceptions. The Oakdale native started in all 12 games at the cornerback position and finished the year with 42 total tackles and 11 pass break ups. He ranked second in the conference and 18th nationally with 16 passes defended (interceptions + break ups), and twice on the year intercepted two passes in a game – vs. Alcorn and vs. Northwestern State. - McNeese Football

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CB Darion Dunn, Texas
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12/13/19 - Tarik Black, Sr/2021, Texas, 6-3, 213 (DS#55 WR) + More +

Michigan wide receiver Tarik Black has entered the transfer portal. A team spokesman confirmed that Friday. Black, a junior, has 25 catches for 323 yards and a touchdown this season. In three seasons for the Wolverines, Black has 40 receptions for 507 yards and two touchdowns. He is fourth on the team in catches this season, behind Ronnie Bell, Nico Collins and Donovan Peoples-Jones. Black began the season with four catches for 80 yards and a touchdown against Middle Tennessee, but those are still his season highs in all three categories. No. 17 Michigan faces No. 9 Alabama in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1. - AP College Football

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WR Tarik Black, Texas
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