In the middle of the 2024 season, the Texas Longhorns got an early preview of playing without tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders following a high ankle sprain sustained against the Kansas Jayhawks, the second game of Big 12 play.
“JT was almost like a crutch in some aspects for us and I hated it for him at that point in the season when he had the high ankle sprain, he was trying to fight through it, and maybe wasn’t playing his best football,” Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said on Craig Way’s show at SEC Media Days.