Texas football: Steve Sarkisian makes big statement by landing five-star QB Maalik Murphy

Steve Sarkisian’s Texas football team has secured the five-star commitment of Maalik Murphy.

New Texas football head coach Steve Sarkisian must be ecstatic right now, as his program just landed a five-star quarterback for the 2022 class in Maalik Murphy out of Gardena, California.

Murphy tweeted out an image of him in a Texas Longhorns uniform on Saturday afternoon with an attached message of “On to the next chapter. Committed. #AllGasNoBrakes” This is the mantra in which Sarkisian hopes to bring the Texas football program back in the 2020s. He has a ton of obstacles ahead of him in that endeavor, but he has landed an outstanding pro-style prospect.

Recruitment will be huge on Texas’ quest to getting back to national prominence

Murphy is the No. 2 pro-style passer in his class, the No. 4 player from California and the No. 30 player nationally in the 2022 cycle, according to the 247Sports Composite. The 6-foot-4.5 and 225-pound signal-caller had 31 official offers. Quarterbacks coach A.J. Milwee was his primary recruiter. This is Milwee’s first five-star commitment he has ever earned as a college coach.

Overall, Texas needs to not only protect its own borders for recruitment, but it needs to venture into other states where a traditional blue-blood program is down. Sarkisian had been the former USC Trojans head coach before his life unraveled half a decade ago. Quinn Ewers may still be committed to play for Ryan Day’s Ohio State Buckeyes, but landing Murphy is an incredible get.

Could Murphy be the starting quarterback who finally brings Texas back in the early 2020s?

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