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Pete ThamelESPN
Texas backmost Hudson Card, a erstwhile ESPN top-40 recruit, intends to participate the NCAA transportation portal, sources told ESPN connected Tuesday. He's a redshirt sophomore who volition person 3 years of eligibility remaining astatine his adjacent destination.
Card is expected to look arsenic 1 of the apical quarterbacks successful the transportation market, with 5 starts astatine Texas and a beardown estimation from precocious schoolhouse astatine Lake Travis successful Austin.
A root told ESPN that Card is targeting a Power 5 schoolhouse arsenic his adjacent destination, and he's prioritizing a winning programme and the accidental to develop.
Over the past 2 seasons, Card threw for 1,523 yards and 11 touchdowns. He threw conscionable 2 interceptions successful 194 attempts. He redshirted his archetypal twelvemonth with the Longhorns successful 2020 aft playing successful conscionable 2 games.
Card started 3 games for Texas this year, winning games against UTSA and West Virginia. He started 2 games successful 2021.
Card is 6-foot-2, 201 pounds and has capable acquisition to gully important attraction successful the transportation portal. He battled Ohio State transportation Quinn Ewers for the starting occupation this year, with Ewers beating him retired precocious successful grooming camp.
Card was a highly regarded enlistee retired of precocious school, arsenic helium held offers from schools specified arsenic Alabama, Ohio State and Oregon.
Card can't officially participate the NCAA transportation portal until Monday, and he'd beryllium instantly eligible to play aft helium transferred.