After leaving the Texas Longhorns program in October to preserve a season of eligibility, running back Jerrick Gibson committed to the Purdue Boilermakers on Sunday while on a visit to West Lafayette.<\/p>\n
Gibson has three seasons of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n
The 5\u201910, 206-pounder has appeared in four games this season and will preserve his redshirt before entering the NCAA transfer portal when it opens for the winter window.<\/p>\n
Gibson arrived in Austin with high expectations as a consensus four-star prospect ranked as the No. 117 player nationally and the No. 9 running back, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. The Gainesville product finished his high school career at IMG Academy in Bradenton before signing with Texas in the 2024 recruiting class despite a late push by Florida.<\/p>\n
As a true freshman, Gibson took advantage of injuries at the running back position to make an impact during non-conference play, scoring touchdowns against Colorado State, Michigan, and Louisiana-Monroe in addition to running for 75 yards on five carries in the win over UTSA. Gibson also recorded his first career 100-yard performance in the blowout victory against his hometown Gators, finishing the 2024 season with 78 carries for 377 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n
The 5\u201910, 206-pounder appeared in four games during the 2025 season and preserved his redshirt before entering the NCAA transfer portal when it opened for the winter window.<\/p>\n
Gibson arrived in Austin with high expectations as a consensus four-star prospect ranked as the No. 117 player nationally and the No. 9 running back, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. The Gainesville product finished his high school career at IMG Academy in Bradenton before signing with Texas in the 2024 recruiting class despite a late push by Florida.<\/p>\n
As a true freshman, Gibson took advantage of injuries at the running back position to make an impact during non-conference play, scoring touchdowns against Colorado State, Michigan, and Louisiana-Monroe in addition to running for 75 yards on five carries in the win over UTSA. Gibson also recorded his first career 100-yard performance in the blowout victory against his hometown Gators, finishing the 2024 season with 78 carries for 377 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Before leaving the program, Gibson did not see playing time against Ohio State or Florida, finishing his Texas career with 37 carries for 152 yards and a touchdown in 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cJerrick is our short-yardage back and we just didn\u2019t have any short-yardage opportunities, first of all, so he would have been the first guy in if that would have been called upon,\u201d Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said in early October..<\/p>\n
Sarkisian went on to say that Texas needed to use its backs who are stronger in pass protection and pass catching, two knocks on Gibson in addition to issues missing holes earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
Now Gibson will have to try to make up for those deficiencies with another program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leaving the Texas Longhorns program in October to preserve a season of eligibility, running back Jerrick Gibson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,536,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-110875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-longhorns-football","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}