It all leads up to Week 1 on Sept. 5 against Texas State.<\/p>\n
Here are three observations from the second day of practice Thursday at Denius Fields:<\/p>\n
QB KJ Lacey looks solid as No. 2 quarterback<\/p>\n
Manning has shown off<\/a> his arm strength over the first two days of practice with a series of downfield bullets, but backup KJ Lacey has quietly enjoyed a strong start to summer camp. Working in tandem with Manning during passing drills, Lacey didn\u2019t misfire on a single ball during the approximately 25-minute practice window open to the media.<\/p>\n Lacey, a 6-foot, 188-pound sophomore from Alabama, may have the weakest arm among all four scholarship quarterbacks. But no one, including Manning, looks more accurate.<\/p>\n Multisport athlete Jonah Williams arrived at midterm of the 2024-25 school year out of Galveston as perhaps the most touted freshman in the 2025 class. A five-star prospect as a defensive back and a baseball player, he immediately joined the 2025 Texas baseball team and looked primed for a big freshman season in football. Injuries took their toll <\/a>in both sports, however, and Williams had limited impact as a freshman.<\/p>\n But the safety looks fit in the first few days of football. At a listed 6 feet. 3 inches and 210 pounds, he\u2019s the biggest player to go through the defensive back drills. He also looks like one of the most athletic; if Williams stays healthy, he could start living up to his potential this season.<\/p>\n Hero Kanu returns for his second season with Texas as the unquestioned leader of the defensive tackle bunch, and he looks the part. The 6-5 native of Germany put on 10-12 pounds from last season and now weighs a listed 309 pounds. With his athleticism, that extra weight makes Kanu look bigger without looking heavier, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all leads up to Week 1 on Sept. 5 against Texas State. Here are three observations from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3230,132,134,133,261,3231,537,536],"class_list":["post-400307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-arch-manning","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-football","tag-steve-sarkisian","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400307","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=400307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}