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The Texas football team continued to tweak its 2024 roster on Tuesday by welcoming in receiver Silas Bolden from Oregon State and linebacker Kendrick Blackshire from Alabama while releasing 2024 defensive lineman recruit D’Antre Robinson from his National Letter of Intent.
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Robinson, a 6-foot-3, 315-pound defensive tackle rated a consensus 4-star recruit by 247Sports, cited the departure of Texas defensive line coach Bo Davis as his reason for asking for a NLI release. Davis, Robinson’s primary recruiter, left Texas to join the LSU staff earlier his month.
Robinson’s departure may hurt Texas down the road, but the latest addition should add an immediate boost to next season’s squad. Both Bolden and Blackshire have the bona fides to step in as immediate starters for a Texas team that went 12-2 and reached the College Football Playoff this past season but lost 10 full-time starters to the NFL draft or the transfer portal.
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Oregon State’s Silas Bolden races down the field against Notre Dame in the Sun Bowl in El Paso in December. The speedy Bolden announced his transfer to Texas on Tuesday.
What does Silas Bolden bring to the Texas team?
The third receiver to join Texas in the transfer portal this offseason, Bolden provides even more depth to a unit that lost its top three receivers – Xavier Worthy, Adonai Mitchell and Jordan Whittington – to the NFL draft. Matthew Golden announced his decision to leave Houston and join Texas in December while Isaiah Bond left Alabama for Texas after the recent retirement of Crimson Tide coaching legend Nick Saban.
Bolden, who will be a fourth-year player with three years of eligibility, shares…
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Publish date : 2024-01-17 02:58:12
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