“Through team success come the individual accolades, awards, honors, and draft picks.”
One of Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian’s favorite phrases is about to play starting on Thursday as the 2025 NFL Draft gets underway in Green Bay and former Longhorns parlay the team success of back-to-back trips to the College Football Playoffs into the individual honor of being selected in the draft.
There’s unquestionably a correlation between the program’s trajectory and its success in the NFL Draft. After Texas went 5-7 in Sarkisian’s first season in 2021, the Longhorns didn’t have any players selected in the draft for only the fourth time in the history of the draft.