Texas Longhorns Edge Transfer Trey Moore Impressing Early In Spring Football

According to Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian, new transfer edge rusher Trey Moore has been very impressive early on in spring football.

AUSTIN - The Texas Longhorns are coming off of their first ever College Football Playoff bid, nearly making it to the national title game after a heartbreaking loss to Washington.

Despite reaching those heights, and having one of the best rosters in college football, the Longhorns still had some glaring position needs they needed to address this offseason.

One of those needs was at edge rusher, where the Horns struggled with consistency from time to time. Fortunately for the Horns, they addressed that shortcoming in a major way, signing five-star edge rusher Collin Simmons and UTSA transfer Trey Moore.

As a freshman, it is unclear exactly how quickly Simmons could impact the team next fall. And while the early returns on Simmons seem to be promising, by all accounts, the more experienced Moore looks to be more than living up to the hype early on.

Texas edge rusher Trey Moore

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“What I like about Trey first of all is his work ethic. You can tell he's a guy who comes into the program and has a chip on his shoulder,” Sarkisian said. “ Trey has got something to prove, and I think there’s some value to that in the portal when you can recruit a guy that’s maybe is not coming from an SEC school or a Big 10 school. Now they’ve got something to prove.”

Moore does indeed have something to prove.

After finishing his last two seasons at UTSA with 105 tackles, 22 sacks and 35.5 tackles for loss and three forced fumbles in Conference USA, going up against SEC offensive tackles from week to week will be a much greater challenge.

But according to Sarkisian, Moore is approaching this spring with great intensity. And based on his work against the Longhorns tackles - including one of the very best in the nation in Kelvin Banks - there should be too much drop off from the impact he had in San Antonio, once he takes the field in Austin.

“The way he worked all winter conditioning and the way he practices, he practices with real intent,” Sarkisian said. “He’s an extremely effective pass-rusher... He maximizes every day. He tries to squeeze every drop out of the day and it shows in the way he works in practice.”