One early 2027 mock draft already has four Texas Longhorns coming off the board inside the top 10. The number sounds aggressive until you go name by name, which is exactly what PFSN’s Football Debate Club did in weighing whether Texas can really stack four players that high. Sending four from one program to the top 10 would be a rare haul.
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Arch Manning anchors the group as the projected No. 1 overall pick on most early boards. Quarterback is the premium position, and his spot is the safest of the bunch before the conversation reaches the trenches.
Ian Cummings sees enough talent behind Manning to clear four. He starts with the left tackle.
“Trevor Goosby, he’s big, six-seven, three-twenty-five. Really long, really powerful in the run game. Really good anchor in pass protection,” Cummings said. “I would lean towards him making it.”
Goosby returned to Austin rather than enter the 2026 draft, and most outlets rank him as the top tackle in the 2027 class. The next name carries even less doubt. Edge rusher Colin Simmons led the SEC with 12 sacks last season and earned second-team All-America honors, the kind of resume that lands inside the top 10 on talent alone.
That leaves the receiver as the swing.
“Cam Coleman is the wild card,” Cummings said. “You still have a six-foot-three receiver who can beat man coverage the way that he can. It’s very intentional as a route runner and has the flashes of hand strength at the catch point. I have to think an NFL team is going to invest in that.”
Coleman arrived from Auburn in January as the portal’s top receiver, pairing his five-star pedigree with Manning and Steve Sarkisian’s offense. He caught 56 passes for 708 yards as Auburn’s leading wideout in 2025, doing it without stable quarterback play. The early mock that lists four Longhorns has Manning first, Goosby fifth, Coleman eighth, and Simmons ninth.
Where the Texas Case Could Fall Short
Jacob Infante is not ready to sign off on four. His hesitation starts with the same receiver Cummings flagged.
“A lot of that hinges on Cam Coleman, where I think his hands … the ability to make the big play is tremendous, but I do think there are slight drop issues in terms of making the easy catches look hard,” Infante said. “I’d like to see a little bit more consistent separation against man coverage.”
His second concern is at tackle, where he questions whether Goosby stays the first lineman off the board. Infante pointed to Jordan Seaton, now at LSU, as a prospect who could climb past him.
“Maybe Jordan Seaton outperforms him,” Infante said. “Maybe that’s enough to push Goosby out of the top 10. So I’m hedging my bets between one of the two falling out.”
That is the crux of it. Infante does not dispute the top-end talent. He questions the depth of it, and whether Coleman’s hands or Goosby’s competition knocks the group from four down to three. Manning and Simmons look like the surest things in burnt orange, with the tackle and the receiver fighting for the fourth slot rather than holding it.
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The 2026 season settles the argument. If Coleman’s drops clean up and Goosby plays like the tackle most evaluators already think he is, Texas hits four and maybe pushes for five. If either wobbles, the Longhorns still send a quarterback and a pass rusher near the very top, which most programs would take in a heartbeat. The talent is stacked. The only question is how high it all goes.
