Texas Longhorns Football Recruiting: Quincy Russell Working His Way Back To Austin

by Scipio Tex on Apr 24, 2025 1:44 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

The big DT from Trinity Valley JUCO is on track to return to the 40 Acres. Jeff Howe recently took in a Trinity Valley scrimmage and it looks like Quincy is back wreaking havoc after being sidelined by a shoulder injury last year.

Russell has battled back to be in position to anchor the Cardlinals' defensive line this fall. Unofficially, he recorded six tackles, three for loss, and 2.5 sacks in the scrimmage.

"Will someone please block Quincy Russell?" head coach Brad Smiley scolded his offensive line after Russell had split a double team to bury the running back for a three-yard loss.

If Russell keeps on the academic straight and narrow, expect to see him in Orange and White in Spring 2013. He'd be a welcome addition given that the Horns aren't finding this year's DT crop very deep and some of the top prospects may be infected with knuckleheaditis.

Russell's senior highlight film shows an incredibly raw player with almost no technique or refinement with outstanding feet and natural strength. Don't dwell on the technical stuff for an interior line prospect - you have to presume you can teach it. A couple of years of JUCO coaching should raise his technique, lower his pads, and generally mature a player that was considered unprepared for a college environment academically and socially.

Some time away at Trinity working towards a goal may be just what the doctor ordered for Russell to find his internal fire. And you can't teach frame and feet.

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Thanks, Scipio

I keep hearing snippets about QR — he might return, he burned his bridges, Mack doesn’t grant second chances. All that stuff.

I’m curious: You mention injury. Did Russell redshirt last fall? If not, he’d arrive as a junior with two years eligibility, but he’d be arriving as we (projected) carry three seniors (Moore, Whaley, Dorsey) and two other experienced tackles (Jackson, MB2) into the 2013 season. Not a lot of PT there.

A RS at Texas in ’13 would create more playing time for Russell later on, plus give us an important player for 2014 and 2015.

by edsp on Apr 24, 2025 1:53 PM CDT reply actions

Bringing in QR should greatly ease the pain

Of losing Moore, Whaley, and Dorsey at the same time.

And a senior (or RS junior as you recommend) will much better help fill that void in the rotation than any incoming freshman from this year’s class would (no MB2s on our radar this year).

@ccommand3r

by CMDR on Apr 24, 2025 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions

In today's spread happy world

You want three or four DTs who can play. Plenty of snaps available.

He’ll have three years to play two here.

by Scipio Tex on Apr 24, 2025 2:52 PM CDT up reply actions

Pretty sure he has not burned bridges

I think both Wyatt and Bo Davis have been by the school recently, so it sounds like as long as he does what he needs to academically he will be welcomed in.

At this point, imo, its tough to know what you are getting with a lot of the people you listed in the rotation. Whaley is still a question mark, we have yet to see Moore or MB2 play a down, and Dorsey has a track record of inconsistency. Jackson and Dorsey seem primed for a big year, but there is nobody in the 2 deep right now that has a stranglehold on being a top line DT. Maybe that all changes by the time Russell gets to campus, but my guess is that a couple of the guys you listed would be below him on the depth chart.

by Big(g) Ern on Apr 24, 2025 2:01 PM CDT reply actions

My thoughts

Whaley is a major asset as a pass rusher. He’ll continue his improvement curve. Don’t forget, the guy didn’t know how to get in a stance a few months ago. I feel good about the DTs and think they’ll be a better unit than 2011’s group in sum. They’re actually a quiet team strength.

by Scipio Tex on Apr 24, 2025 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions

I hope you are right. I see a lot of reasons for guarded optimism with our current DTs, but I also think that Diaz was right when he said that nobody has stepped up to claim the bad ass mofo title that Kheeston left behind, and I don’t think anyone in the group comes into the year with proven bona-fides. Seems like an area that we won’t know what we’ve got until Ole Miss or OSU.

by Big(g) Ern on Apr 24, 2025 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions

Motivated DTs have predictable growth curves

See the questions about Kheeston Randall, Lamarr Houston, Roy Miller at the same stages in their careers. The 2012 DTs will be better pass rushers than 2011 by a large margin. The question is whether one of them can step up to be a run stopping force. They all have five months to get better and I expect them to do it.

by Scipio Tex on Apr 24, 2025 5:59 PM CDT up reply actions

DT

I am intertested to see how we move forward at DT. Tank seems to be a great fit in the Diaz defense, which to my understanding is predicated on firing into gaps and getting penetration. Then you have Moore he seems more of an immoveable object that keeps LB’s clean and takes on double teams for fun. We seem to be mixing and matching skill-sets at DT. It is interesting.

by codaxx on Apr 24, 2025 8:59 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

i'm confused

why would you expect russell to be above any of the current guys? by the time he gets to texas, all of them but malcom brown will have equaled russell’s experience but actually done so at texas as opposed to juco.

i have a very hard time seeing russell coming in and taking any of their spots.

by Timmy Teat on Apr 24, 2025 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Count the number of spots.

It isn’t two.

Follow @BarkingCarnival

by Sailor Ripley on Apr 24, 2025 7:51 PM CDT up reply actions

huh?

if russell comes from juco and doesn’t redshirt, that makes him behind 5 guys his first year at texas. how does the number 2 have any significance in that situation?

by Timmy Teat on Apr 25, 2025 12:27 AM CDT up reply actions

he's saying

we need 4 DT’s who can play. Considering how often these big guys don’t put it together you really can’t take enough DT’s in trying to fill 4 spots.

by Nickel Rover on Apr 26, 2025 9:45 AM CDT up reply actions

QR

Is the news on him a reaction to Texas’s lack of success on the recruiting trail at DT or has he made the necessary strides. He was not particularly effective in his first yr of JUCO ball and Texas seemed to be looking at some in state options. Both signed elsewhere. In your opinion is this a good get or a case of settling

by codaxx on Apr 24, 2025 2:43 PM CDT reply actions

He was a good get as a high school senior

If he has continued to progress physically, socially, and academically his value and potential shouldn’t be diminished. Like a lot of fill in blank of city ISD kids, he had maturity issues to deal with. IF JUCO served to focus him, more the better. If he fucks around this year, Bo Davis will move on.

by Scipio Tex on Apr 24, 2025 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions