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Steve Sarkisian talks up transfer pass-catchers Jack Endries, Emmett Mosley

by:EvanVieth•04/22/25
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Nov 16, 2024; Stanford, California, USA; Stanford Cardinal wide receiver Emmett Mosley V (10) celebrates after making a touchdown catch against the Louisville Cardinals during the fourth quarter at Stanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bob Kupbens-Imagn Images

Within a span of four days, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian transformed an inexperienced, question-mark-riddled group of pass catchers into a solid unit capable of representing a national title favorite.

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On April 3rd, Stanford WR Emmett Mosley entered the portal following the firing of former head coach Troy Taylor. Mosley was able to enter the portal early, and Texas quickly pounced on the highest-rated receiver left available. By April 12th, he was in Austin, and two days later, he had signed with the Longhorns.

“Emmett Mosley is a guy that we were recruiting hard going into his senior season,” Sarkisian said. “He was high on our board. We had high hopes for him. We had a great relationship with him and his family. He ended up injuring his knee before his senior season, and we kind of backed off of him. To his credit, man, he worked his tail off, got himself healthy, and had a really, really solid freshman year there at Stanford. And so when they made the coaching change and he decided to go into the portal, we just felt like he was a really natural fit.”

Mosley was already someone Sarkisian had planned on being part of his class of 2024 recruits, so his acquisition one season and 525 receiving yards later made all the sense in the world, especially given the departure of fellow second-year player Freddie Dubose.

But Sarkisian wasn’t done with receiving threats. While Texas now had a strong wide receiver group featuring Mosley, five-star rising sophomore Ryan Wingo, and veteran (at least by Texas standards) slot DeAndre Moore Jr., the tight end position was even younger, more inexperienced, and equally as hurt.

While sophomore Jordan Washington was expected to step up heading into the season, Sark’s knack for utilizing two tight ends made his room look extremely thin. Washington was injured, freshman four-star Nick Townsend wasn’t an early enrollee, and the rest of the veterans lacked high-level pass-catching potential.

So when Cal TE Jack Endries entered the portal, the first name that many observers connected to the former walk-on was Texas. In true Sarkisian fashion, he made sure Endries didn’t even think about other schools, signing him just two days after he entered the portal. Mosley on the 14th, Endries on the 18th.

“When you watch his tape at Cal, he played for three different coordinators in three years there, so he was used in a lot of different ways,” Sarkisian said. “He really put the tape together over three years. He kind of fits all the things we ask for the tight end to do here, and I felt like we needed a veteran presence in that room.”

Sarkisian noted that Texas needed an every-down player at the position, something he couldn’t yet rely on from Washington or redshirt sophomore Spencer Shannon.

“It’s a young room,” Sarkisian said. “It’s a talented room. And so to have kind of a veteran in that room for the Spencer Shannons, the Emaree Winstons, those types of guys, the Jordan Washingtons, to look to, of what it looks like, because all those young guys are going to play for us.”

With Endries and Mosley now Horns, Texas doubled its number of receivers who caught a pass in 2024 on the roster. That’s not something that can be understated. Texas can now run out an 11-personnel lineup with Endries at TE, Mosley or Moore in the slot or out wide, Wingo out wide, and Tre Wisner, one of the best pass catchers in the SEC, out of the backfield. That’s not to mention Washington or any of the other youngsters, like Parker Livingstone or Kaliq Lockett, who are waiting in the wings to show off their high-value, albeit less polished, receiving upside.

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