Landen Williams-Callis is only a junior in high school and he already has more rushing yards than most college backs put up in a full career. The No. 3 running back in the 2027 Rivals300 announced Saturday that he's committing to Texas, picking Steve Sarkisian's program over Texas A&M and a handful of other suitors who spent the offseason chasing him.
The numbers on this kid are genuinely ridiculous. Rivals' Hayes Fawcett, who broke the news, put his career totals at 7,554 yards and 133 touchdowns through 3 varsity seasons at Thomas E. Randle High School in Richmond, Texas. He just wrapped a junior year where he ran for 3,502 yards and 59 touchdowns on his own, good enough to earn Gatorade Texas Football Player of the Year and drag his team to a state runner-up finish. He's also somewhere around 3,800 yards shy of the state's all-time high school rushing record, and he's got an entire senior season left to close that gap.
This wasn't some under-the-radar pickup either. Williams-Callis is ESPN's No. 46 overall recruit in the 2027 class, and he chose Texas over an in-state rival in Texas A&M that clearly wanted him badly. "It's all God's plan," he told Fawcett when explaining the decision — not much drama, just a kid who knew where he wanted to be.
For Texas, this is less about landing one guy and more about stacking the deck. Williams-Callis slots in as the second-highest-ranked commit in Sarkisian's 2027 class, behind only five-star receiver Easton Royal, and joins fellow four-star back Noah Roberts, the No. 4 RB in the class. That would give the Longhorns two top-five rushers in the same recruiting cycle, which simply doesn't happen very often.
The class was already sitting at No. 3 nationally before this weekend, and adding the nation's third-best back only tightens the grip Sarkisian has on Texas high school talent right now. A&M fans will grumble about another in-state prize slipping across the aisle, but with a full senior season left to pad that touchdown total, Williams-Callis is about to make this look like an even bigger get by the time he actually steps on campus.