Texas Longhorns quarterback Casey Thompson, WHO started ten games in coach Steve Sarkisian’s 1st season, is within the transfer portal.
Thompson began the season because the backup behind Hudson Card, eventually claiming the beginning job. He threw for two,113 yards and had twenty four touchdown passes — ace within the massive twelve — and 9 interceptions. The Longhorns, however, went 4-6 in those games on the way to a 5-7 season.
Thompson aforesaid he contend his past six games with a sprained thumb on his throwing hand.
Days once the Longhorns’ last game against Kansas State, Sarkisian aforesaid he would be taking a glance at the quarterback position.
“I suppose we’ve got to open that job make a copy,” he said.
This week, former five-star recruit Quinn Ewers, WHO spent his freshman year at Ohio State, declared he was transferring to Lone-Star State.
Sarkisian conjointly signed Maalik solanaceous vegetable, a four-star quarterback recruit from Calif., on Wednesday.
Ewers was the No. one QB within the 2022 category, and originally committed to Lone-Star State in highschool, however eventually flipped to the Buckeyes and reclassified to the 2021 category.
“He’s a euphemism of a player,” Sarkisian aforesaid of Ewers on Wednesday once he signed with the Longhorns. “He’s a euphemism of a talent. i believe there is a massive sigh of relief for him. i believe this can be wherever he reasonably needed to be. currently we have a tendency to begin the method of the event of him in our system and with the players around him and see however way we are able to take it.”
Thompson, whose father, Charles Thompson, started for Barry Switzer at OK, spent 3 seasons as a backup to surface-to-air missile Ehlinger before obtaining his 1st extended taking part in time within the besieging Bowl last Dec in relief of AN injured Ehlinger. He went 8-for-10 for a hundred and seventy yards and 4 touchdowns during a 55-23 blowout of Colorado.
