AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Football's Jahdae Barron was honored at the Jim Thorpe Award banquet Tuesday night in Oklahoma City. Barron was named the award's recipient on Dec. 12 as part of the The Home Depot College Football Awards show on ESPN.
Barron traveled along with Texas' Defensive Passing Game Coordinator and Secondaries coach Terry Joseph, Texas' Assistant Director of Player Development and 2005 Thorpe Award winner Michael Huff and UT Athletics' Senior Associate Athletics Director for Football Communications John Bianco to Oklahoma City for the official award ceremony hosted by the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.