Texas football landed a commitment on Monday from Spring Dekaney tight end and defensive lineman Nick Townsend, a four-star recruit who’s listed as the No. 3 athlete prospect in the country by 247Sports’ composite rankings. He chose the Longhorns over Alabama, Texas A&M and USC.
Townsend (6-foot-3, 235) produced 431 receiving yards and seven touchdown catches in 10 games last year and had 76 tackles, eight sacks and 11.5 tackles for loss on defense. He could end up playing tight end, linebacker or defensive end at Texas.
That feels familiar to former Longhorn Ja’Tavion Sanders, who also played defense in high school and was a 6-foot-5, 235-pound five-star athlete prospect projected to play either tight end or defensive end when he came out of Denton Ryan in 2021.
The Longhorns missed out on a few five-star prospects recently when wide receiver Dakorien Moore pledged to Oregon and and linebacker Riley Pettijohn committed to Ohio State. Texas’ 2025 class has 15 players (eight four-stars and seven three-stars) and is ranked No. 15 nationally.
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