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Texas in good standing with priority OL target Daniel Cruz after junior day

Daniel Cruz visited Texas last weekend and is looking at a couple more college stops this coming weekend.
Daniel Cruz visited Texas last weekend and is looking at a couple more college stops this coming weekend.

Richland offensive lineman Daniel Cruz has been a priority target for Texas in the 2023 recruiting class for quite some time, and over the weekend Cruz made his way down to Austin to take part in a Longhorns junior day. It was a great experience overall for Cruz, with the best part being the time spent with UT offensive line coach Kyle Flood.

“The highlights were definitely just the individual meetings that we had with Coach Flood. I felt like I definitely fit in with his coaching style,” Cruz said. “Like my coach, he definitely includes some of the things that he coaches. So definitely, that was my favorite part of the day that sticks with me and is going to stick with me for a long time.”

Cruz, who holds more than 20 scholarship offers, doesn’t have a list of favorites just yet. If he did, he said Texas would definitely make the cut.

“Texas with me is up there. I mean, if I had to make a top 10, a top five, they’d be up there,” Cruz said. “I like them a lot. I see myself fitting in there sometimes. I could play center for them, I can play guard, I can play anywhere for them. That’s where they stand for me.”

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An interior O-line prospect, Texas liked what the 6-4, 287-pound Cruz brings to the table both in terms of his play on the field and his character in the locker room.

“I like coach Flood, everything really. I like his coaching style, the way he calls blocks, the way he coaches, everything like that. His message to me, he wants me to be a great leader,” Cruz said. “He wants to be a captain for this team and then just be a great center for him. He sees me as a leader for the team basically.”

Up next, Cruz will hit either Oklahoma or Texas A&M this coming weekend and then will be at TCU on Sunday. A Baylor visit is a possibility as well. Looking further down the road, Cruz wants to take summer official visits before making a decision, and he said Texas will “absolutely” get an official visit.

“This summer, I'm going to take my official visits. I'm going to narrow it down to a top five, and then after summer's over it's going to come in after that and call a place home,” Cruz said.

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