Trevor Goosby Is Reported Out for the Season With a Knee Injury: What It Means for Texas
Texas won the biggest game of its season Saturday night and may have lost the most valuable player on its offense doing it.
Left tackle Trevor Goosby injured his left knee in the first quarter against Ole Miss and was carted off the field. ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Sunday, citing sources, that Goosby will miss the rest of the 2026 season. Texas has not announced a diagnosis, and neither Steve Sarkisian nor the school has confirmed that timeline.
What Sarkisian said after the 34-27 win was short and not encouraging. Goosby and receiver Cam Coleman both left hurt, and the coach offered this: “Obviously, neither of them look very good.”
What Texas Is Losing
Goosby is a 6-foot-7, 325-pound senior from Melissa, Texas, and he had started all seven games at left tackle this season, 22 starts in his career. He was a first-team All-SEC pick by the coaches last year and a preseason first-team All-American this year. He won Outland Trophy national player of the week honors in September.
The draft projections tell you the rest. ESPN’s Field Yates had Goosby eighth overall in his most recent 2027 mock. Yahoo’s Nate Tice slotted him 16th and called him the second-best tackle in the class. Thamel described him as the top left tackle prospect in the country.
One outlet, On Texas Football, reported the injury involves the patellar tendon. No other outlet has corroborated that and the school has said nothing, so treat it as unconfirmed. Goosby also had a knee bone bruise in fall camp in August, and whether the two are related has not been reported either way.
The Line Was Already the Problem
Texas has allowed 19 sacks in seven games, 126 yards worth. That rate ranked tied for 121st in the FBS before Saturday. On Texas Football had the Longhorns 115th in line yards and 98th in power success rate heading into the Ole Miss game. Arch Manning has been taking a beating behind a group that was supposed to be a strength.
Andre Cojoe replaced Goosby and finished the game, 62 snaps at left tackle. The senior is 6-6 and 339 pounds, had played 10 career games before Saturday, and missed all of 2025 with his own fall camp knee injury. Ole Miss sacked Manning only twice, which reads well until you look at one of them: Blake Purchase came through for a 23-yard strip-sack that Kam Franklin returned for a touchdown early in the third quarter and launched the Rebels’ comeback.
Behind Cojoe there is Jordan Coleman, who has been used as a sixth lineman in jumbo packages, and Melvin Siani. That is the depth chart.
Five Games to Fix It
The win moved Texas to 5-2 and up to No. 11 in the new AP poll, the biggest jump of the week, from No. 19. The first College Football Playoff rankings do not come out until Nov. 3, so nobody has a bracket number yet.
The schedule left is Mississippi State at home Saturday, road trips to Missouri and LSU, Arkansas at home, then Texas A&M on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Missouri is No. 23 and LSU is No. 15 in the new poll.
Texas also played Ole Miss without Colin Simmons, whose 10.5 sacks lead the FBS, and lost Coleman in the third quarter. Manning threw two interceptions and ran for two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 8:04 left, while Raleek Brown ran for a season-high 157 yards. The Longhorns found a way without their best edge rusher for one night. Finding a way without their best lineman for five straight weeks is a different ask.
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