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JAN 31: SWEAT DOMINATES T’Vondre Sweat was undoubtedly the Texas Longhorns’ best defensive player this past season, earning unanimous first-team All-American accolades, the Outland Trophy, and much more.

Sweat has began his NFL Draft preparations, starting with the Reese’s Senior Bowl.

Sweat seemed to be dominating the proceedings, thumping former Arkansas center Beaux Limmer during practice reps.

On the next rep, he can be seen dominating Texas A&M guard, Layden Robinson.

As it stands, Sweat ranks as a top 50 prospect and is a fringe first-round prospect depending on which expert you ask.

But if Sweat can continue to put up this kind of performance leading up to draft day, he should continue to rise up boards.

JAN 17 ‘STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM, NOW WE’RE HERE’ Former Texas Longhorns quarterback and assistant coach Major Applewhite is set to become the South Alabama Jaguars’ new coach, per a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Applewhite is being elevated from his current position as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator to replace Kane Wommack as the Jaguars coach, who left for the defensive coordinator role at Alabama under Kalen DeBoer.

Applewhite, the 45-year-old Texas-Ex, quickly decided to end his playing career after being signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent following the 2002 NFL Draft, as he instead finished out school and became a coach.

After being a graduate assistant for two years at Texas, working under then-coach Mack Brown in 2003 and ’04, he spent a year at Syracuse, Rice, and Alabama before finding himself back in Austin for the next five years. Firstly as running backs coach before being promoted to co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks.

From there, after a year off from coaching, Applewhite spent three seasons at Houston before returning to Alabama for two seasons as an analyst, where afterward, he’d take the offensive coordinator job at South Alabama in 2021.

JAN 11 THOMPSON COMMITS TO OU Former Texas Longhorns quarterback Casey Thompson will be returning to college football for a seventh season, committing to the Oklahoma Sooners on Thursday.

It will be Thompson’s fourth team since 2021, leaving Texas and eventually transferring to Nebraska, followed by Florida Atlantic.

Thompson, who has thrown for 5,338 yards and 52 touchdowns in his career, will likely be a backup to Jackson Arnold in Norman.