In looking at the 2019 class, it's got a strong boom or bust flavor to it. It's honestly rare to see this many busts this fast, however.
Bru McCoy - Drew Mehringer special. Bust here. Bust at USC unless he turns a corner.
Jordan Whittington (or Whittingham, depending upon your level of fuckheadery) - Way too early. Hopefully he's healthy and gets plenty of work in the spring.
Jake Smith - Looks like a star early, but has to get his head right and the staff has to recover from Drew Mehringer and Corby Meekins mishandling this guy.
Tyler Johnson - Early reports are strong on him and he's been all Texas.
De'Gabriel Floyd - Injury related bust that no one could have prevented or saw coming. Feel bad for him and hope he has a great life and gets a UT degree.
Tyler Owens - Ended up playing a lot due to other injuries and showed promise, while being put in impossible situations. Liked him a lot on special teams.
Kenyatta Watson - If he doesn't transfer and gets some coaching, he will be a starter and a potential stud at CB. Looked great on his ability to cover, had no coaching on paying attention to the ball.
Marcus Washington - Another potential transfer candidate that needs help recovering from being mushroomed by the WR staff.
David Gbenda - Good buzz about him and then he decided to smoke weed, get tossed from the bowl experience and now is a threat to transfer.
Brayden Liebrock - Good buzz on him and no other murmurs.
Chris Adimora - The first guy on the list that looks like he's a sure fire bet to be a highly productive player at Texas for 3-4 years. Fuck.
Derrian Brown - See De'Gabriel Floyd. Good luck, young man.
Roschon Johnson - If he stays at TB, he will be a star at Texas and have a career in the NFL a la Chris Ogbannaya.
Isaiah Hookfin - I haven't heard shit about him. I hope that is a good thing.
Myron Warren - I haven't heard shit about him. I hope that is a good thing. The forgotten man on the DL from this class.
Javonne Shepherd - A walking cancer that showed promise early and convinced himself that he should be starting. Challenged Yancy McKnight to a fight and threatened to kill someone, allegedly, and was promptly shown the door. Hopefully he is able to get in to ATM so that he can take elephantine shits all over their locker room and throw Jimbo Fisher across the field in an impromptu midget-tossing contest between him and Zac Evans.
Jacoby Jones - Sounded like a promising candidate to play big time snaps until he suckerpunched an OL during practice and was thrown into the doghouse.
Marcus Tillman - Looked promising on special teams early until he suffered an injury that caused a redshirt.
T'Vondre Sweat - Played early, often, and well (considered the defensive circumstances) and looks like a potential starter and major contributor.
Peter Mpagi - I haven't heard shit about. I hope that is a good thing.
Caleb Johnson - A wet fart of a recruit that showed up long enough to transfer. Total waste of a scholarship.
Kennedy Lewis - Looked good and showed promise during a redshirt campaign. Hopefully he wasn't ruined by the twat coaching him.
Marques Caldwell - Redshirted. Complaints early were that he couldn't pick up the complexities of the defense but could cover well when not asked to think. I certainly hope things turn for him with a new defensive staff, given the absurdity of what I wrote in the prior sentence.
Jared Wiley - Looks like a fucking beast in the making at TE.
Willie Tyler - I haven't heard shit about him. I hope that is a good thing.
Juwan Mitchell - A JAG that played a lot at LB and I presume will continue to do so because we need warm bodies.
Yikes. That's 5 guys out of the program already - Floyd, McCoy, C Johnson, D Brown, Shepherd. 2 more obvious potential transfers right now in Gbenda and J Smith. A group of players sticking around at WR to see if we can figure anything out there with coaching. A bunch of unknowns at OL and DL. Some promise but risk on at DB and WR. Some solid performers early in RJ, Wiley, Adimora, Sweat and some of the receivers.
There's still a lot of hope for this class and I'm not Randolph Duking it and declaring it a bust of a class at this point, but we really need the guys in the trenches, especially the OL, and the WRs/TEs to hang on and show up big in the future.