Even though the Texas Longhorns only lost one of four potential early entrants to the NFL, the loss of five starters on offense and eight starters on defense has left head coach Tom Herman’s program near the bottom of the FBS in Bill Connelly’s returning production metric.
In fact, Texas ranks No. 121 nationally, behind Georgia Tech and Wyoming and in front of Middle Tennessee and South Alabama. The reason? The Longhorns return 57 percent of all production on offense (No. 88 nationally), as gauged by the metric, but return only 40 percent of the production defensively (No.