Texas has landed a transfer at a key position of need, with former Louisville defensive lineman Jermayne Lole announcing on social media Thursday that he has flipped his commitment from Oklahoma to the Longhorns.

Lole, who is entering his seventh season of college football, began his career in 2018 at Arizona State and played in 23 games in his first two seasons there. He missed the 2021 season with a triceps injury, then transferred to Louisville. After appearing in one game in 2022, Lole made 12 appearances last year with 19 tackles and 1.5 sacks. His best season came in 2019 at Arizona State, where he had 71 tackles (10 for loss) with 6.5 sacks.

The 6-foot-2, 305-pound Lole will join Arizona transfers Bill Norton and Tiaoalii Savea as Texas tries to buffer the losses of first-round pick Byron Murphy II and second-rounder T’Vondre Sweat. After Texas’ spring game April 20, coach Steve Sarkisian highlighted defensive line as a spot where he still wasn’t happy with the team’s numbers.

“I think obviously the depth on the defensive line is not where we need it to be, and so hopefully we can address that,” Sarkisian said. “We don’t have enough bodies. There’s not enough big humans. It’s simple math, so we’ve got to address it.”

Texas added UTSA star defensive end Trey Moore earlier in the spring along with five-star recruit Colin Simmons. The Longhorns also have a key returning player in defensive tackle Alfred Collins, who came back for his final season after appearing in 48 career games with six starts.

Former Colorado tailback Alton McCaskill has committed to transfer to Arizona State, he told ESPN. McCaskill expects to have three years of eligibility remaining for the Sun Devils, as he has taken a medical redshirt and a traditional one the past two years.

After playing just four games for Colorado last season, McCaskill will emerge as an option at tailback for Arizona State as he tries to recapture the form from his breakout 2021 freshman season at the University of Houston.

McCaskill had 14 carries for 59 yards at Colorado in those four games last season before asking coach Deion Sanders to be redshirted. Sanders granted that wish. McCaskill missed the 2022 season after tearing his ACL in the spring of 2022.

That came in the wake of a promising opening season at Houston in 2021, when he earned AAC Rookie of the Year honors. He ran for 961 yards and hauled in 113 receiving yards. His 16 rushing touchdowns that season led all true freshmen and set Houston’s true freshman record for rushing touchdowns. He accounted for 18 total touchdowns for the Cougars.

McCaskill came to UH as a four-star recruit in the class of 2021. His scholarship offer sheet lists USC, Oklahoma State and many of the top programs in the country.

He’ll join a talented running back room at Arizona State, which is headlined by senior Cam Skattebo, who rushed for 783 yards and nine touchdowns last season for the Sun Devils after transferring from Sacramento State.

Ryan Boyajian, a current cast member of Bravo’s reality TV series “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” is the bookmaker’s associate to whom Ippei Mizuhara wired money to pay his gambling debts, multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation told ESPN.

Mizuhara is accused of stealing $16 million from Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani to feed what Mizuhara described to ESPN as a gambling addiction. His arraignment has been rescheduled to May 14.

As first reported by ESPN, and later detailed in the criminal complaint against Mizuhara, Mathew Bowyer, the illegal bookmaker under investigation, told the interpreter he could pay his gambling debts by wiring money into the account of Bowyer’s associate, known in the complaint as “Associate 1.”

That associate is Boyajian, who used the account with Bowyer for their real estate projects, according to the sources. Boyajian, 47, and Bowyer, 49, have been close friends and business associates for nearly 20 years. When Bowyer declared bankruptcy in 2011, court records show Boyajian loaned him $245,000.

Steven Katzman, Boyajian’s criminal attorney, told ESPN that Boyajian is working with federal authorities.

“Because there is an active investigation and Ryan is working with the authorities, he can’t confirm or deny what is going on,” Katzman told ESPN. “He is not a bookmaker or a sub-bookie.”

Multiple sources said Boyajian has received immunity in return for his testimony.

The U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California could not be reached for comment. The IRS Criminal Investigation’s Los Angeles office declined to comment.

Multiple sources said Boyajian was often seen gambling with Bowyer at Resorts World Las Vegas and other casinos on the Vegas strip. In return, Bowyer and Boyajian received high-end “comps” through their casino host, who earned money in commission based on how much they gambled. The comps included free food and beverage, golf, tickets to shows and sporting events, shopping sprees, hotel suites and promo chips.

Sources told ESPN that Mizuhara paid his losses to Boyajian, who forwarded the money to his own “marker” accounts at Resorts World and Pechanga Resort Casino in Southern California. Boyajian and Bowyer then withdrew the chips from the marker accounts, gambled with them and if they won, cashed out.

Bowyer has not been named in any indictment unsealed to date. Bowyer’s attorney declined to comment.

ESPN reported last week that Resorts World is at the center of what federal authorities described in an affidavit as an investigation into “illegal sports bookmaking organizations operating in Southern California, and the laundering of the proceeds of these operations through casinos in Las Vegas.” Twelve people have been charged or convicted to date, and two Vegas casinos have agreed to pay fines, according to the affidavit. Resorts World was served a federal subpoena last August that sought, among other things, documents related to its anti-money laundering policies.

A spokesperson for Resorts World told ESPN the casino does not comment on ongoing legal matters. “Resorts World Las Vegas takes any suggestion of violations seriously and is cooperating with the ongoing investigation,” the spokesperson said.

Scott Sibella, the former president of Resorts World, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles to 12 months probation, a $9,500 fine and 200 hours of community service. He pleaded guilty to a charge that, as president of MGM Grand, he failed to file suspicious activity reports about another Southern California bookie, Wayne Nix.

ESPN’s Paula Lavigne contributed to this report.