It’s easy to say all the right things in training camp. No. 1 Texas knew it had a bumper crop of receivers, but there is still only one ball. How is coach Steve Sarkisian supposed to keep everyone happy?

Three games into the season as the offense takes shape, Sarkisian’s player utilization tendencies are coming into focus.

“Really, we just have to get open and the quarterback will find us,” receiver DeAndre Moore said Monday. “We can’t really worry about where the targets are going to go. We just have to make the most of our opportunities.”

It should surprise no one that Texas quarterbacks Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning are looking toward the experienced, bullet-fast receiver first.

Alabama transfer Isaiah Bond, a former 100-meter Georgia state high school sprint champion, has been targeted a team-high 17 times this season. He’s made 13 catches for 215 yards and three touchdowns. Bond was clocked running 22.1 mph on his 55-yard catch-and-run touchdown against UTSA, the fastest speed of any athlete in college football last weekend.

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Bond had the nation’s fastest run, going 22.1 mph on a 51-yard touchdown sprint against UTSA

Houston transfer Matthew Golden has been targeted 15 times so far. He’s made 12 catches for 125 yards and also has three touchdowns.

It makes sense that a running back would get plenty of targets, if nothing else as a check-down safety valve out of the backfield. Running back Jaydon Blue has nine catches on 13 targets for 74 yards and one score.

And Sarkisian is going to use the tight end. Senior Gunnar Helm has made it a seamless transition from Ja’Tavion Sanders, who is now in the NFL. Helm has 10 catches on 11 targets for 189 yards and one touchdown. Sanders even hurdled a defender in impressive fashion against UTSA and ran for 26 yards after making a 23-yard catch, a 49-yard play all total.

Running back Quintrevion Wisner (nine targets) and receiver Ryan Wingo (eight) are getting some looks, as is Johntay Cook II (six). But what about Oregon State speedster Silas Bolden? He’s been targeted only five times in the first three games on offense while averaging 7.5 yards per punt return.

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“It's a deep room,” Sarkisian said before the UTSA game. “You know, the guys have been playing a lot of reps, and sometimes the ball finds you and sometimes it doesn’t. That’s just the way it goes.

“week to week, you just never know when that ball finds you four or five or six times, and it turns into a really big game,” he added. “I think what’s most important for him is to continue to have a great attitude, continue to work hard, continue to really understand the nuances of the offense, and when that ball starts finding him that he’s in position to go make those plays.”

If anything, the early target list only highlights how much offensive talent Texas really has.

Take Moore, for example. He’s been targeted only four times all season but has three catches and a 19-yard catch that ignited Manning’s five-touchdown performance against the Roadrunners.

If anyone in the locker room is unhappy with where the ball is going, keep working. At some point, it’s going to come your way.

“We have great players everywhere on the field, right? You know what I’m saying?” Moore said. “So when your opportunity comes, you better make sure you do something with it, because that guy's going to.”