It was a difficult time for the Texas football program to find any footing at the beginning of the off-season in terms of retaining players deeper down the depth chart from transferring. There were numerous players from the 2018 Texas football team that put their name into the newly instituted NCAA Transfer Portal back in December 2018 and January 2019.
The most recent player to put his name in the transfer portal was the former three-star 2015 signee and rising redshirt senior outside linebacker Cam Townsend. He is the first linebacker from the Texas football program to put his name in the transfer portal, though.