AUSTIN, Texas — After a lackluster offensive season in 2025, Texas soccer head coach Steve Sarkisian is taking a look at a crew with so much of new transferring items. Besides quarterback Arch Manning and wide receivers Ryan Wingo and Emmett Mosley V, almost each talent participant on Texas’ offense is a brand new face to the Forty Acres.
An absence of historical past with the Longhorns leaves so much left on the desk. Onlookers do not know precisely how these new playmakers will match inside the Texas offense — however in response to Sarkisian, there may be at the very least one participant that is been inspiring confidence over fall camp.
Transfer wide receiver Cam Coleman has been the recipient of most of Texas’ preseason hype, and deservedly so.
Coleman’s dedication to Texas as the No. 1 participant out of the portal instantly put the Longhorns on the map in phrases of predicted offensive explosiveness — and resulted in hypothesis relating to Texas’ roster-building technique.
Sarkisian, nonetheless, credit the resolution to Coleman’s intentional mindset.
“I would say Cam has been phenomenal, and part of this, you know, Cam is very intentional. He came here for a reason,” Sarkisian stated Monday.
According to Sarkisian, intention appears to mark almost the whole lot that Coleman commits himself to. Transferring to Texas after spending two years at Auburn may be an intensive course of, with a very completely different system and playbook to be taught. However, evidently’s precisely what Coleman was going for.
“He was a great receiver at Auburn, right? And he came to a very different system. And I think I credit him because it was very strategic,” Sarkisian stated. “He wanted an NFL system. He wanted to learn how things are taught in the NFL, and he wanted a full route tree, and he wanted formations. He wanted motions. He wanted to read coverages and run routes based off of coverages, and so he’s been very intentional in his approach.”
In an period through which a number of faculty soccer applications flip to the switch portal to be able to fill gaps and acquire skilled gamers, Texas’ primary concern over the offseason has been easy methods to totally gel these incoming athletes with the present crew. As nicely as the capacity to “buy in” to crew tradition, Sarkisian highlighted the worth of a relationship between gamers which have labored alongside one another for a substantial quantity of time. There’s little question that Coleman might want to put in the further effort to be able to construct a relationship like that with Manning.
But, as Sarkisian says, there’s intention in that too.
“And you think about some of the best in the NFL, even relationships, those guys who have been together for a long time, they almost think like one another … Cam, I give him a lot of credit,” Sarkisian stated. “He’s been very intentional to be close to Arch, and I think Arch has been intentional with him as well because they know they’ve got some ground to make up, and I think their rapport is really good.”
Manning has had a complete season of play to construct that relationship with gamers like Wingo and Mosley. Fall camp has been key to growing the identical factor with Coleman, and evidently he and Manning are already constructing that mutual rapport.
“We spend a lot of time together, and Cam wants to be great,” Manning stated. “He takes coaching well. I can yell at him. I can also say whatever I want. He doesn’t care. He wants to be great. So it’s nice having that, just being able to talk freely and not care what he’s going to say. And he works so hard, and I’m just glad he’s here.”
Although Coleman is one of the highest projected offensive weapons inside faculty soccer, his predicted season is predicated on the pure expertise that he reveals — not on perfection or expertise. There’s an extended street for Coleman to journey to be able to attain his ceiling as one of the most naturally gifted gamers in the Southeastern Conference, and coupling that with studying a wholly new system shouldn’t be simple. As Texas appears to be like towards the begin of the 2026 season, Coleman is frequently being requested to enhance as a substitute of staying complacent together with his play.
Fortunately for Sarkisian and the Texas offense, that hasn’t discouraged him.
“There’s been some growing pains, but to his credit, I’ve never felt him be down about it. Like he wants it more,” Sarkisian stated. “He wants to meet extra. He wants to learn how to do it. The byproduct is he’s playing really well … He’s confident in doing it, and I think Arch has got good rapport and good faith in him to do what he’s supposed to do.”