At the end of the 2023 campaign, one of the Texas Longhorns defense's biggest questions was how they would replace the talent and production of T’Vondre Sweat and Byron Murphy, a pair of NFL defensive linemen. The Longhorns went into the transfer portal to supplement the talent already on campus, hoping to replace the production in aggregate. However, it turned out that two home-grown talents would anchor a defensive line that was one of the elite units in the country.
Texas finished No. 13 in the country in rushing yards allowed per game, averaging just 109.