Biggest shoes to fill: Texas Longhorns

These last two weeks, we've been looking at the biggest shoes that need to be filled on every team in the Big 12.

We continue the series with the Texas Longhorns.

Texas defensive tackle Hassan Ridgeway

For the past month and especially on National Signing Day, Hassan Ridgeway was essentially the elephant that wasn’t in the room. The monster defensive tackle’s decision to skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft was a serious blow – and, to some, a surprising one – that prompted Texas coaches to invest a lot of time and effort into signing a big class of defensive tackles Wednesday.

Chris Daniels, one of the top 15 DTs in the 2016 class, flipped late to the Longhorns and fills a major…