Texas Longhorns transfer running back Quintrevion Wisner is heading to Tallahassee for his final season of eligibility after committing to the Florida State Seminoles on Monday.<\/p>\n
The decision ended a fast and quiet portal recruitment for Wisner, who sat out the Citrus Bowl and departed the Longhorns program after it became apparent that head coach Steve Sarkisian planned to target a running back to replace Wisner as the starter.<\/p>\n
Wisner\u2019s exit marked the biggest transfer portal departure of the Sarkisian era at Texas and ensured that the position room of new running backs coach Jabbar Juluke requires a total rebuild with Wisner, redshirt sophomore CJ Baxter, sophomore Jerrick Gibson, and freshman Rickey Stewart all entering the portal.<\/p>\n
That leaves only three returning running backs on the roster \u2014 redshirt freshman Christian Clark, freshman James Simon, and freshman Michael Terry \u2014 and delivers a blow to the team\u2019s leadership and toughness, two high-level attributes that Wisner provided to Texas in addition to serving as the team\u2019s leading rusher over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n
In the current era of college football, the added element to postseason exit meetings with coaches is negotiations and Wisner\u2019s departure indicated that Texas was unwilling to meet his price.<\/p>\n
A two-way standout at Waco Connally before transferring to DeSoto as a senior and spending a significant amount of time at wide receiver due to injuries, Wisner finished the 2023 cycle as a consensus three-star prospect ranked as the No. 494 player nationally and the No. 33 running back, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. Wisner pledged to Texas over offers from Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas A&M, and USC.<\/p>\n
Wisner began showing signs of becoming a contributor for the Longhorns despite arriving on campus with modest expectations for his career by becoming a special teams standout, making seven tackles on kickoff coverage and playing on the punt return unit. At running back, the 6\u20190, 194-pounder took advantage of limited opportunities, gaining 73 yards on 12 carries and scoring a touchdown.<\/p>\n
The breakthrough for Wisner came in 2024 after Baxter and Clark suffered season-ending injuries in preseason camp with 1,064 yards and five touchdowns on 226 carries with 100-yard performances against Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas A&M, and Clemson.<\/p>\n
As the leading returning rusher in the SEC, the expectations for Wisner increased commensurate with his performance, but the 2025 season was ultimately a disappointing one for Wisner and Texas. A hamstring injury sustained in practice after the season opener sidelined Wisner for three games and issues along the offensive line contributed to his struggles when he returned. Wisner finished the season with 597 yards and three touchdowns on 131 carries, adding 146 yards and a touchdown on 22 catches.<\/p>\n
With Florida State\u2019s leading rusher in 2025, Oklahoma transfer Gavin Sawchuk, into the portal again, Wisner will compete for the starting job with rising sophomore Ousmane Kromah, a bigger-bodied back who had a solid debut season, and rising junior Samuel Singleton Jr., a more direct competitor to Wisner in size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Longhorns transfer running back Quintrevion Wisner is heading to Tallahassee for his final season of eligibility after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,11161],"class_list":["post-107294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-texas-longhorns-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}