Devin Duvernay was once regarded as the fifth-best wide receiver in his high school class, but throughout his first three seasons in Austin, he was seldom utilized as the elite talent he signed with the Texas Longhorns as in 2016. Between then and the beginning of the 2019 season, Duvernay’s final on the Forty Acres, he hauled in just 70 career receptions, which only slightly exceeded Collin Johnson’s 2018 total of 68, and his 1,082 career receiving yards trailed Lil’Jordan Humphrey’s junior efforts of 1,176 by nearly 100 yards.
Simply put, it wasn’t as if Duvernay’s elite-level talent vanished into thin air when he signed with Texas, but during his time in burnt orange, it was rarely utilized.