Last year at this time, Texas Longhorns defensive end Charles Omenihu was contemplating his future with the knowledge that his two best friends on the team, Malik Jefferson and DeShon Elliott, and several other classmates from 2015 were headed off to the NFL. Fame, fortunate, all of that.
“For a while I was so on the fence of coming back, you know?” Omenihu told Cory Redding last February in a Longhorn Network interview. “You go in the class with guys and you see your friends — particularly Malik and DeShon — leave, and you’re like, ‘This is going to be weird coming back to school if I do without those guys around.