The Longhorns suffer another remarkable depature.
Turnover in the Texas Longhorns wide receiver room continued on Thursday with the unexpected news that redshirt freshman Parker Livingstone will enter the NCAA transfer portal when it opens.
The 6’4, 191-pounder’s decision comes in the wake of Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian opting to retain position coach Chris Jackson as Livingstone becomes the third departure, joining junior DeAndre Moore Jr. and redshirt freshman Aaron Butler.
Ranked as a consensus four-star prospect out of Lucas Lovejoy in the 2024 recruiting class, Livingstone was the No, 270 prospect nationally and the No. 46 wide receiver, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. With 35 offers, Livingstone took official visits to Texas and South Carolina before committing to the Longhorns. Other offers included Arkansas, Auburn, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Miami, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas A&M, among others.
As a freshman, Livingstone appeared in four games for the Longhorns, playing 28 snaps and receiving two targets without recording a catch.
Entering the 2025 season, Livingstone drew buzz during the spring for his development and emerged as a seven-game starter during his redshirt freshman season, flashing early with three touchdowns and 175 receiving yards on six receptions over the first two games.
Livingstone finished the year with 29 receptions for 516 yards and six touchdowns, ending the campaign as the fourth-leading receiver in receptions, the third-leading receiver in receiving yards, and the second-leading receiver in touchdown catches.
The promise that Livingstone showed during his breakout second season on the Forty Acres didn’t lead to a third year in Austin even though he was a roommate of quarterback Arch Manning and grew up a Longhorns fan.
So that marks Moore and Livingstone as major contributors who are leaving the Texas program as Sarkisian and general manager Brandon Harris push to upgrade a position that finished as a net disappointment with the possibility increasing that the Horns will target multiple wide receivers in the portal, including a high-profile target like Cam Coleman.
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