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The best receiving touchdowns from the 2024 Texas Longhorns

by:Justin Nash•01/04/25
Matthew Golden
Matthew Golden (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

This season has provided the Texas Longhorns and their fans a lot to be proud about, particularly the receiving corps. There has never been a Texas team with four different receivers each boasting at least five touchdown passes in a single season until now.

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The schools thought to be NFL wide receiver factories, like Texas’ upcoming opponent, would likely scoff at Texas’ receiving history. But recent years show that the Longhorns have taken a huge step in a direction they really hadn’t ever done before Steve Sarkisian arrived.

For the most part, the history of Texas football has focused on innovative ways to run the ball and great defense. Nobody provided a better summation of how the Longhorns looked at the forward pass for most of their history than Darrell K Royal: “there are only three things that can happen when you pass the ball, and two of them are bad.”

Fred Akers took over for Royal in 1977 and inherited an eventual Heisman winner in Earl Campbell, so running the football was his forte as well. Mack Brown wound up with a year-one Heisman running back in Ricky Williams and followed Williams not too long after with a Doak Walker Award winner in Cedric Benson.

Passing the ball in cutting edge ways has never really been Texas’ thing, save for the best of the Colt McCoy era. Great wideouts like Roy Williams have come through Austin, but Texas has never had an offense that got the ball in the end zone like this through the air on a regular basis. The crazy part is, Jaydon Blue is sitting one touchdown reception away from bumping the number of Longhorns with five touchdown catches up to a round five.

Let’s take a look at one of their top receiving touchdowns from 2024 for each of the guys.

Matthew Golden – 9 TDs

How could anyone choose a different touchdown?

Sure there are sexier receptions, but the magnitude of this play puts it here.

Gunnar Helm – 7 TDs

This catch from Gunnar Helm really cemented himself as a legit receiving option, if he wasn’t already.

DeAndre Moore Jr. – 7 TDs

Not sure what I like Moore (pun intended). The throw, the catch, or the celebration? All three are top notch.

Isaiah Bond – 5 TDs

It’s been five games since he recorded this touchdown, and this play really demonstrates how important he is to the offense when healthy. You can’t teach speed like his.

The best technical catch of the year belongs to the guy waiting for the bouncer outside the club to let him in. Hopefully Blue won’t have to wait too long.

Jaydon Blue – 4 TDs

You know a catch has to be special when no one thinks it was possibly a catch live, but upon review it is one clear as day. For those that remember the Washington semifinal game last year… does Blue have another clutch catch?

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All-in-all this has been a fantastic season for Texas wideouts. The work’s not done yet, and who knows, there could be more history to write.

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