{"id":668238,"date":"2026-01-11T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668238\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:38:13","slug":"longhorns-land-pitt-standout-in-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668238\/","title":{"rendered":"Longhorns land Pitt standout in transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-football\/texas-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas football<\/a> spent Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-football\/texas-football-news-longhorns-lose-db-santana-wilson-louisville-transfer-portal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing a defensive back to Louisville<\/a>. But gained a defensive standout via the Atlantic Coast Conference Saturday. This one coming from Pittsburgh via the portal.<\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Rasheem Biles is going from the Steel City to Austin, Hayes Fawcett of On3\/Rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TransferPortal\/status\/2010151174851137873?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">revealed on Saturday evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/steve-sarkisian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Sarkisian<\/a> and the coaching staff gain an All-ACC player in the process. Biles emerged as one of the top defenders available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/college-football-transfer-portal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Football Transfer Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Texas addresses a big need here. The linebacker rose as a massive offseason priority for the Longhorns during the offseason \u2014 especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-football\/texas-football-news-former-all-american-linebacker-declares-for-nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Hill Jr. declaring for the NFL Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Texas efforts in transfer portal outside of landing Pitt star<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3637825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Steve-Sarkisian-of-Texas-5.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian and team gesture after the game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Sarkisian isn&#8217;t considered the most aggressive in the portal compared to fellow Southeastern Conference head coach Lane Kiffin over at LSU. Or even the leader of the nation&#8217;s top-ranked team Curt Cignetti at Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s landed stellar results when he does dip into that arena. Especially after pulling off one big offseason move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSark\u201d and Texas managed to land versatile running back <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-football\/texas-football-news-arch-manning-all-big-12-arizona-state-rb-transfer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raleek Brown via Arizona State<\/a>. Brown is fresh off earning All-Big 12 honors for his backfield play. The same Big 12 the Longhorns once dominated in.<\/p>\n<p>Brown heads to Austin fresh off delivering his finest season yet \u2014 1,141\u00a0 yards playing for another offensive whiz in Kenny Dillingham.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkisian even added some extra massive strength for the defense. He and Texas landed <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-football\/texas-football-news-longhorns-land-388-pound-ex-arkansas-beast-transfer-portal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas nose tackle Ian Geffrand<\/a> \u2014 who brings an imposing 6-foot-5, 388-pound frame to the frontline for the \u2018Horns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas football spent Friday losing a defensive back to Louisville. But gained a defensive standout via the Atlantic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23337,7,49,48,384,6212],"class_list":{"0":"post-668238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football-transfer-portal","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-steve-sarkisian","13":"tag-texas-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115875329352093525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}