Over the last several months, there’s been a sweet, sweet fantasy playing through the minds of Texas Longhorns fans — visions of running backs in burnt orange and white breaking tackles and creating big plays in the open field.
Considering the promise shown by rising redshirt sophomore Jonathon Brooks, the talent of the nation’s consensus No. 1 running back Cedric Baxter Jr., the speed of rising senior Keilan Robinson, and the potential of rising redshirt freshman Jaydon Blue, there is some grounding in reality.
But expecting those players to fill in seamlessly for the departed Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson was like watching Mariah Carey’s music video as a teenager in the late 1990s and hoping to be the future object of her affection.