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Former Texas football DE target Myles Garrett nearly picked Ohio St over A&M

Myles Garrett (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)

A former big-time target of the 2014 Texas football recruiting class, Myles Garrett, nearly picked to commit to Tom Herman, Urban Meyer, and Ohio State.

Rewind the clock to the 2014 recruiting cycle, back when the Texas football program was making the transition from the legendary Mack Brown to the former Louisville Cardinals head coach Charlie Strong to run the team. Strong came onto the Forty Acres with a lot of promise for where the program could be going headed into the mid-2010’s. But nothing really went as planned for Strong during his three years on the Forty Acres.