After back-to-back college football playoff appearances, Texas has had four wide receivers see their names called in the past two NFL drafts. Football head coach Steve Sarkisian produced two vastly different wide receiver rooms to help his Longhorns see the postseason.
Unlike a year ago, Texas has familiar faces filling roles at wide receiver for the upcoming 2025 season. Junior DeAndre Moore Jr. returns as a leader this season, and former five-star Ryan Wingo has an even higher ceiling after appearing in all 16 games as a true freshman.
Moore showed sparks during his sophomore season, totaling nine starts throughout the 2024 season, racking in seven touchdowns while accumulating 456 receiving yards. Wingo saw the endzone twice, but both receivers are familiar with their new signal caller. Of the nine touchdowns between the two players, five were thrown by Arch Manning.
While this current receiver group is not as established as the one Sarkisian had entering the 2023 season, when he retained Jordan Whittington and Xavier Worthy, while also acquiring Adonai Mitchell from the transfer portal, Sarkisian spoke of how he sees the different evolutions of his roster as necessary at the SEC spring meetings.
“I think we have to forever evolve,” Sarkisian said in a [spring SEC press meeting.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-9hialYAy8) “It’s easy to do what you’ve done before. Sometimes it’s more difficult to step outside the box and to get a little bit uncomfortable and to maybe start to do things a little bit differently.”
Sarkisian referenced that position groups like the offensive line haven’t benefited from the transfer portal as much as a position like wide receiver, but is not opposed to using it. Sarkisian uses the portal to fill needs rather than constructing a whole roster, prioritizing home-grown talent instead. The 2025 wide receiver room has been constructed using a mix of talent retention, recruiting and a notable pick-up in the portal.
A portal addition on April 14 added even more experience to the Longhorns’ group of pass catchers. Emmett Mosley V entered the transfer portal after Stanford fired head coach Troy Taylor. ESPN’s Max Olson views Mosley as a “proven playmaker.”
Mosley, the son of two former Notre Dame athletes, should make an immediate impact for Texas. He enters his sophomore season with six touchdowns, 48 catches and 525 receiving yards under his belt.
A player that could turn heads is redshirt freshman Parker Livingstone. The three-star in the 2024 class appeared in four games but saw no action. At 6 feet, 4 inches, Longhorn fans could see Livingstone step up in third-down scenarios with a large catch radius and underrated speed.
His high-school teammate from Lovejoy, Daylan McCutcheon, also joins the Longhorns in the No. 1-ranked 2025 recruiting class.
McCutcheon is one of four true freshmen who will be vying for playing time in a crowded receiver room. Not far from Lovejoy is Sachse, where Texas recruited five-star Kaliq Lockett. Down south, four-star Michael Terry III was viewed as both a receiver and running back out of Alamo Heights in San Antonio, but is listed at wide receiver on Texas’s roster.
The addition of 6 feet, 1 inch, Jaime Ffrench from Florida, will fuel the competition even more between these young men. McCutcheon has the smallest build out of the four but saw larger levels of production than Ffrench, reeling in 38 touchdowns as an upperclassman.
With an abundance of young talent in this Texas wide receiver room, it ensures one thing: Only the best will prevail.