While putting a new spin on it, how would most people grade out the best defensive backs in the NFL that ever came out of the Texas football program? Given that advanced metrics have come a long way since a lot of the best former Longhorn defensive backs played both in college and the NFL, it is important to understand how they could be viewed under a different microscope.
The Longhorns have claimed before to be the official “DBU” among all of the college football programs that could get that title. That might be a bit far fetched, but they do have quite the laundry list of defensive backs that stood out at both the college and NFL levels in the more than 100-year long history of the program.