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There are less than two weeks before the Texas Longhorns begin the 2024 college football season, and while the coaching staff feels comfortable with the healthy running backs the Longhorns have, they wouldn’t be opposed to adding another player from the transfer portal.

Head coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday he’s “looking at all options” when it comes to rebuilding depth at the position following season-ending knee injuries to projected starter CJ Baxter and freshman Christian Clark.

Classes haven’t started at Texas yet, but Sarkisian said if the Longhorns brought in a transfer, it probably wouldn’t be a traditional one.

This late in the game it’s probably a graduate transfer, something of that sort,” he said.

“”We’re looking at all of our options there again.

We don’t want to take a body just to take a body.

If it’s someone who can help us in some capacity, maybe a limited role or a bigger role, whatever that is, we’re looking at all options that way.”

Being a little thin in the backfield with three scholarship players doesn’t mean Sarkisian will give the ball carriers no-contact jerseys.

He said while coaches don’t necessarily want the backs to get taken to the ground, they need to be “thudded.”

That means defenders can give them a solid hit and try to force a fumble but not complete the tackle to bring someone down.

Thud tackling during live periods is very common, especially in training camp.

“It’s not a whole lot different than what we normally do,” Sarkisian said.

“They need to get hit, they need the strip attempts and the punch-out opportunities by the defense as they learn to take care of the ball, But again, we don’t really want them to go the ground and take unnecessary hits and falls. Our practices are still very physical.”

Earlier in training camp, Sarkisian said he’d look around other position groups and perhaps move someone to the backfield.

One of the players who had some reps was redshirt freshman wide receiver Ryan Niblett, but Sarkisian said following the team’s second scrimmage of camp Saturday that he’s working his way into the receiver rotation.