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As busy recruiting weekend begins, Texas football gets one pledge but loses another

thomas jones, austin american-statesman
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Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian, with his team before the Orange-White spring game earlier this year, received a commitment from four-star running back Christian Clark on Thursday but lost a pledge from Clear Lake athlete Hunter Moddon.
Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian, with his team before the Orange-White spring game earlier this year, received a commitment from four-star running back Christian Clark on Thursday but lost a pledge from Clear Lake athlete Hunter Moddon.

On the verge of a massive recruiting weekend, the Texas football team just received a commitment from one of the nation’s most coveted running backs in the class of 2024 but also lost a pledge from a longtime target.

First, the good news for Texas fans. Christian Clark, a four-star running back from Phoenix, verbally committed to the Longhorns on Thursday. His pledge comes days after his official visit to Austin.

Ranked as the 23rd best running back in the nation for his class in 247Sports’ composite rankings, the 5-foot-11, 195-pound Clark will bring a versatile skill set to the Longhorns. During his junior season at Mountain Pointe High School, Clark ran for 737 yards and 11 touchdowns and hauled in 37 catches for 368 yards and another five touchdowns.

Clark also fielded offers from schools such as Oregon, Georgia and Florida State.

But Texas also received some unwelcomed news on Thursday when longtime pledge Hunter Moddon announced on his social media accounts that he had reopened his recruiting. Moddon, a 6-foot, 175-pound athlete from Clear Lake High School in the Houston area, had committed to the Longhorns in September.

More: Texas football 2024 recruiting class grows to five with recent commitments

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian and his staff will enter a busy recruiting weekend with five pledges for the 2024 class. Earlier this week, Arizona defensive back Santana Wilson and Smithson Valley receiver Freddie Dubose Jr. pledged to Texas and joined three-star quarterback Trey Owens of Cypress-Fairbanks High School outside of Houston and three-star punter Michael Kern of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida.

Multiple recruits are on official visits to Texas his weekend, and Clark hinted on Thursday that the Longhorns’ 2024 class could grow in size and stature.

“Texas recruiting is about to blow up with some big commits coming in last week and hopefully more to come this upcoming weekend,” Clark told Hayes Fawcett of On3 Sports. “I think we’ll make a huge push this month to be one of the top classes in the country.”

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas football lands pledge from coveted RB but loses longtime commit