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Texas football transfers: insider reveals 3 uncommitted players who could help Texas Longhorns in 2025

Texas football transfers: insider reveals 3 uncommitted players who could help Texas Longhorns in 2025
Even with a commitment from Hero Kanu on Wednesday morning, the usual storm of offseason transfer portal chaos has more closely resembled a light rain as far as Texas football is concerned.
After diving into the portal for 12 players last offseason, the Longhorns have made just five additions, with the pool of uncommitted winter transfer portal entries now looking quite shallow.
That matches the approach of the two other SEC teams that qualified for the 2024 College Football Playoff. Tennessee has added just four transfer portal players, with Georgia making six additions.
Are there still players available in the portal who could help the Longhorns next season? Here are three possible candidates.
Pat Coogan, Notre Dame
After fielding one of the most experienced offensive lines in college football last season, the Longhorns are suddenly looking awfully green in the trenches, with guard DJ Campbell set to be their only returning starter.
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Coogan, a center, played 1,582 snaps over the last two seasons. In the 2024 campaign, he helped lead Notre Dame to the national championship game, allowing eight pressures and just one sack in 14 appearances.
Listed at 6-foot-5, 310 pounds, Coogan received a 79.0 pass-blocking grade from Pro Football Focus and a 69.0 mark as a run blocker.
A recent report from On3’s Pete Nakos on Wednesday indicated Coogan had set visits to Ole Miss, Indiana and Michigan.
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Other noteworthy centers with experience in the portal include UTSA’s CJ James Jr. and UNLV’s Jack Hasz.
Rocco Spindler, Notre Dame
There’s another intriguing name up for grabs from Notre Dame’s offensive line.
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Rocco Spindler spent the 2024 season lining up directly to Coogan’s left at the guard position. The Michigan native was a highly-touted recruit coming out of high school, earning top-100 recognition from the 247Sports Composite rankings. Listed at 6-foot-5, 331 pounds, Spindler parlayed his athletic bonafides into two seasons as a starter for the Fighting Irish.
He navigated the entirety of the 2024 season without allowing a sack, earning a 71.8 pass-blocking grade and 70.3 run-blocking grade from Pro Football Focus.
Notably, he started at right guard in 2023 before flipping to the other side last season. That flexibility could be an asset.
Spindler has visited Nebraska and Indiana in the last few days, according to On3.
Jadon Canady, Ole Miss
Jadon Canady performed a utility infielder’s role for the Ole Miss secondary in 2024. The native of Jacksonville, Florida, played a little bit at wide corner, some slot corner and even lined up occasionally at safety.
Recovering from a knee injury that held him out of the 2023 campaign, Canady broke out in 2024, starting 11 games while breaking up 12 passes and making 38 tackles, including three tackles for loss.
Listed at 5-foot-10, 175 pounds, he probably doesn’t fit the “big humans” ethos Sarkisian has established in Austin, but he would provide valuable SEC experience to a secondary group that is losing a pair of key veterans in Jahdae Barron and Andrew Mukuba.