{"id":237269,"date":"2026-04-06T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237269\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:21:14","slug":"its-like-whoa-steve-sarkisian-blown-away-by-texas-rising-2nd-year-blocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237269\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s like whoa\u201d, Steve Sarkisian blown away by Texas\u2019 rising 2nd-year blocker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the offseason, Devin Coleman’s name kept popping up as a potential “riser” heading into 2026. Little did everyone know that it would actually be his brother, Jordan Coleman<\/a>, who has been taking Texas <\/a>football by storm right now during spring practice.<\/p>\n

Jordan has been the talk of the town over the past month or so due to the simple fact that he seemingly came out of nowhere to be the Longhorns’ starting left tackle while Trevor Goosby is out recovering from surgery.<\/p>\n

Nobody saw this one coming<\/p>\n

Not only that, but the way Sark’s been gushing about him<\/a> is incredibly intriguing:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see the physical ability. When he does it right, it\u2019s like whoa. He can pass set guys and move people in the run game. Now it\u2019s the consistency factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been very encouraged by where he\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mammoth-sized offensive tackle (6’5″, 354 lbs.) has apparently been impressing Texas’ coaching staff, specifically OL Coach Kyle Flood, for a while now, and it’s one of the main reasons why the team felt comfortable enough to kick Jaydon Chatman inside to left guard this spring. <\/p>\n

Everyone initially thought that Chatman would be working at left tackle right now, but it was ultimately Coleman who trotted out with the first-team offensive line in spring practice #1 as the blindside protector. Chatman’s skill set fits much better on the interior as well, so Coleman’s improvement has already helped the team and offensive line in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

With Jordan Coleman’s performance this Spring, the Longhorns’ offensive line has actually been one of the early strengths of the team, and that’s not something we were expecting to see this early in the process.<\/p>\n

It’s also great to see from a fan standpoint, as this undoubtely shows the amount of work that the offensive line has been putting in this offseason to improve as a unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout the offseason, Devin Coleman’s name kept popping up as a potential “riser” heading into 2026. Little did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-237269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237269","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=237269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}