Kalen DeBoer now has an SEC school to worry about with 5-star WR Monshun Sales

Monshun Sales is the top wide receiver in the 2027 high school class, and after landing five-star QB commit Elijah Haven, is Alabama’s top target. An Alabama native who now lives in Indianapolis, the Crimson Tide and Curt Cignetti’s reigning national champion Hoosiers have been positioned as the two leaders. However, Texas is entering the fray with official visit season right around the corner, and that’s a big problem for Kalen DeBoer. 

Texas brass will reportedly be in Indianapolis to visit Sales on Tuesday as the Longhorns make a push to land the 6-foot-5 physical freak. Sales has a trip scheduled to Austin on June 5, along with official visits set for Indiana, Alabama, Ohio State, and Miami. 

It’s a five-team race, and after Indiana’s title, the Hoosiers have as much spending power as any program in the country. Yet, after a transfer portal window that saw Steve Sarkisian stiff-arm DeBoer for former five-star wide receiver Cam Coleman, DeBoer and general manager Courtney Morgan won’t love to see burnt orange pulling up alongside them on the recruiting trail. 

Texas making a push for Monshun Sales is bad news for Alabama

In the NIL and revenue-sharing era, schools from the Lone Star State have separated themselves with some of the deepest war chests in the country. Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech are perennial top spenders, and with Arch Manning entering what will almost certainly be his final college season, the Longhorns went all-in on the portal. That urgency netted them Hollywood Smothers, a momentary Alabama commit, Cam Coleman, DeBoer’s top wide receiver target, and a boatload of other talent. 

That urgency may have been increased this offseason, but Texas’s spending power is always there. And after Manning, Sarkisian will likely hand the reins of his offense to 2026 five-star QB Dia Bell, and will want to maximize his two-to-four-year window just as much as Manning’s. That means adding more elite high school talent to go with the No. 1 class in the country in 2025, and the second-ranked class in 2026. 

While DeBoer and Morgan haven’t had the same degree of success in the portal market, Alabama has matched Texas in terms of elite high school recruiting. That makes it all the more important that Alabama lands Sales, because the Tide don’t always have the spending power to correct those mistakes with stop-gap veterans. 

Alabama is building with a high school-first mentality, which, even in a portal-heavy world, can still be viable. It demands, though, that you maximize those high school classes and add immediate contributors, which Sales would undoubtedly be. Still, just because Texas can afford to miss on Sales, doesn’t mean the Longhorns won’t go down swinging.

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