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Roster and two-deep

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# NAME CLASS HT/WT POSITION HOME LAST SCHOOL DEPTH ANALYSIS
46 David Brenner JR 6-0/212 Deep Snapper 1 Plano, Texas Canyon Creek Christian Academy Anyone's guess here, but winner will probably take on most, if not all deep snaps.
53 Kyle Heffron FR 5-10/222 Deep Snapper 2 San Antonio, Texas Ronald Reagan
32 Brandon Bagley JR 5-10/182 Defensive Back Los Angeles, Calif. College of the Sequoias These guys will need to step it up to get some playing time. Crawford could also see some time at a linebacker spot on 3rd downs.
16 Dorian Crawford SR 6-2/200 Defensive Back San Diego, Calif. Mt. San Antonio College
24 Tyler Middleton JR 6-0/195 Defensive Back Midland, Texas Navarro College
25 Michael Coley FR 6-3/189 Defensive Back Irving, Texas Irving
26 John White JR 5-10/205 Defensive Back Bremond, Texas Bremond
28 Martin Hill SR 5-10/175 Defensive Back St. Louis, Mo. Pierce CC
38 Kisean Allen FR 6-0/165 Defensive Back Mesquite, Texas Poteet
24 Payton Hendrix FR 6-2/194 Defensive Back Dallas, Texas Bishop Dunne
22 Derrick Dixon FR 5-9/185 Defensive Back Dallas, Texas Skyline
23 La'Darius Newbold SO 6-1/201 Defensive Back Lancaster, Texas Lancaster
1 Nigel Bethel II FR 5-9/178 Defensive Back Miami, Fla. Booker T. Washington
17 Thierry Nguema SO 5-10/174 Defensive Back BC 2 Corona, Calif. Santiago Nelson seems to be a guy that has locked up a spot, with Nguema being the backup.
31 Justis Nelson SO 6-2/177 Defensive Back BC 1 Mesquite, Texas Dallas Christian
3 J.J. Gaines JR 6-0/185 Defensive Back BS 1 Irving, Texas Nimitz J.J. Gains has won this spot, with Jalen Barnes backing him up.
19 Jalen Barnes FR 6-0/189 Defensive Back BS 2 Port Arthur, Texas Memorial
20 Tevin Madison FR 5-10/160 Defensive Back FC 1 Fayette, Ala. Fayette Tevin Madison is the surprise starter here with Jah'Shawn Johnson backing him up.
14 Jah'Shawn Johnson FR 5-10/170 Defensive Back FC 2 Ennis, Texas Ennis
7 Josh Keys JR 6-0/189 Defensive Back FS 2 Seminary, Miss. Mississippi Gulf Coast It appears that Ward and Keys have locked up these spots. Ward was the star of the spring and Keys needs to come on.
15 Keenon Ward SO 5-9/199 Defensive Back FS 1 Snyder, Texas Snyder
5 Gary Moore FR 6-5/226 Defensive Line End 2 Clarksville, Texas Clarksville Jackson is the undisputed starter. Barnes and Moore back him but need to grow a bit in terms of their size.
9 Branden Jackson JR 6-4/270 Defensive Line End 1 McKeesport, Pa. McKeesport
12 Zach Barnes SO 6-2/221 Defensive Line End Loganville, Ga. Grayson
43 Jackson Richards SR 6-4/268 Defensive Line Nose Guard 1 Southlake, Texas Carroll Richards should start most of the year, but I think that Levi and Richards split snaps for the most part. Levi is more suited to play this spot, as are both Smiths.
95 Marcus Smith JR 6-3/310 Defensive Line Nose Guard Wadesboro, N.C. Highland CC
98 Anthony Smith SO 6-0/331 Defensive Line Nose Guard Houston, Texas Spring Westfield
99 Rika Levi JR 6-2/367 Defensive Line Nose Guard 2 San Francisco, Calif. College of San Mateo
50 Brandon Thorpe JR 6-3/277 Defensive Line Tackle Tucker, Ga. Highland CC I think that as soon as the JUCO guys catch up, then Alston becomes the back-up end and McElrath and Thorpe fill in here.
51 Demetrius Alston JR 6-3/267 Defensive Line Tackle 1 Norcross, Ga. Hutchinson CC
90 Keland McElrath JR 6-4/312 Defensive Line Tackle 2 Ripley, Tenn. Coahoma CC
94 Donte Phillips JR 6-2/280 Defensive Line Tackle Milwaukee, Wis. Homestead
40 Rodney Hall SR 5-9/236 Fullback 1 Angleton, Texas Tyler JC Hall could very well see an expanded role in terms of blocking and catching passes out of the backfield.
35 Tyler Scalzi SO 6-4/236 Fullback 2 Flower Mound, Texas Flower Mound
45 Kramer Fyfe SR 5-8/169 Special Teams Kicker Austin, Texas Lake Travis Taylor Symmank needs to continue to work on his consitency even though he is the named starter as our punter, with Bustin backing him up. That is swapped for the kicker position. Hatfield will probably be on the scout team. Fyfe will be the Kick holder backup to Marquez.
48 Ryan Bustin SR 5-11/179 Special Teams Kicker Kilgore, Texas Kilgore College
96 Clayton Hatfield FR 5-10/166 Special Teams Kicker Boerne, Texas Canyon Creek Christian Academy
42 Taylor Symmank JR 6-2/192 Special Teams Punter McKinney, Texas Southern Arkansas
37 Bobby Esiaba JR 6-0/217 Linebacker Houston, Texas Dallastown PA These guys are working to get into the rotation. Mitchell, however will havew to sit a year, so he will be unavailable this season.
47 Braden Marusak FR 6-3/192 Linebacker Amarillo, Texas Amarillo
30 Collin Bowen FR 6-3/221 Linebacker Amarillo, Texas Randall
40 Dakota Allen FR 6-2/225 Linebacker Humble, Texas Summer Creek
54 Grant Bouma FR 6-2/230 Linebacker Bakersfield, Calif. Bakersfield Christian
39 Kahlee Woods FR 6-0/224 Linebacker Sherman, Texas Sherman
42 Mike Mitchell FR 6-3/226 Linebacker Plano, Texas Ohio State
59 Talor Nunez FR 6-4/240 Linebacker Midland, Texas Lee
27 Zach Winbush SR 6-1/226 Linebacker Schertz, Texas Clemens
6 Kris Williams SO 6-0/230 Linebacker Dallas, Texas Bryan Adams
11 Jacarthy Mack FR 6-1/196 Linebacker Lithonia, Ga. Martin Luther King
13 Sam Eguavoen SR 6-1/225 Linebacker Mike 1 Garland, Texas Lakeview Centennial Sam Eguavoen starting with Awe backing him up at this LB slot.
18 Micah Awe JR 6-0/220 Linebacker Mike 2 Arlington, Texas Mansfield Summitt
2 Andre Ross JR 6-2/234 Linebacker Bandit 2 Calvert, Texas Navarro College Robertson needs to be a guy that dominates and pressures the quarterback. With Kris Williams coming off an injury, it would be fantastic if he could push Robertson to be even better. Ross needs to start making an impact
10 Pete Robertson JR 6-3/236 Linebacker Bandit 1 Longview, Texas Longview
8 Austin Stewart SR 6-0/223 Linebacker Raider 2 Matthews, N.C. Pierce College It appears to be down to Williams and Stewart. Williams is still learning on the job, while Stewart can be inconsistent. We could probably also add in Dorian Crawford, perhaps in third down situations.
34 Kenny Williams SR 5-11/228 Linebacker Raider 1/RB Pflugerville, Texas Hendrickson
41 Malik Jenkins SO 6-1/212 Linebacker Will Ennis, Texas Ennis Considering Fehoko's lack of production at Utah, I'm keenly interested to see how Fehoko steps up his game this year. This team needs for Fehoko to be a force here with Awe filling in. Atoe could fill in both spots too, much like Awe and it seems like the coaches are pretty high on him.
21 Sam Atoe JR 5-11/235 Linebacker Will 2 Windsor, Calif. College of San Mateo
52 V.J. Fehoko SR 5-11/220 Linebacker Will 1 Honolulu, Hawaii Utah
74 Cole Collier FR 6-2/300 Offensive Line Prosper, Texas Prosper These guys are working to get into the rotation.
61 Emiliano Renteria SO 6-2/300 Offensive Line Lamesa, Texas Lamesa
68 Hayden Vinson SO 6-5/289 Offensive Line San Angelo, Texas Cisco College
58 Josh Outlaw FR 6-4/295 Offensive Line Lithonia, Ga. Martin Luther King
79 Poet Thomas FR 6-5/308 Offensive Line Beverly Hills, Mich. Country Day
75 Jared Kaster JR 6-3/285 Offensive Line C 1 Altair, Texas Altair Rice Kaster has been the incumbent for the better part of a year and a half and I tend to think that Tony Morales could flip to either guard spot if necessary, once he is clear of any injuries. Castañeda is back up center until T. Morales returns.
72 Robert Castaneda FR 6-5/300 Offensive Line C 2 Round Rock, Texas Round Rock
51 Tony Morales JR 6-3/315 Offensive Line C/G Arlington, Texas Sam Houston
63 James Polk SR 6-6/338 Offensive Line LG 2 Houston, Texas Alief Elsik It seems that the Morales Brothers and Brown are your left guards, in some form or fashion.
56 Alfredo Morales JR 6-4/308 Offensive Line LG 1 Arlington, Texas Sam Houston
73 Justin Murphy FR 6-7/270 Offensive Line LT 2 Belton, Texas Belton With Clark going to back to tackle, at least for now, the coaching staff has paired Clark and Robertson at left tackle and right guard. I'll be interested to see how that works out, but they are putting the most athletic players at those two spots.
62 Le'Raven Clark JR 6-6/313 Offensive Line LT 1 Rockdale, Texas Rockdale
65 Baylen Brown SO 6-4/293 Offensive Line RG 1 San Antonio, Texas O'Connor Brown is the number one, with Robertson number two, although Clark can sub if needed.
76 Dominique Robertson JR 6-5/315 Offensive Line RG 2 Redlands, Calif. Riverside CC
77 Trey Keenan SO 6-5/272 Offensive Line RT 2 Argyle, Texas Argyle Fortenberry has grown as a player from last year and he's much more solid. Trey Keenan backs him up.
71 Reshod Fortenberry SR 6-5/286 Offensive Line RT 1 Tylertown, Miss. Mississippi Gulf Coast
7 Davis Webb SO 6-5/209 Quarterback 1 Prosper, Texas Prosper Kingsbury really hasn't given any indication who is running third team. The top two are Webb and Mahomes.
15 Hunter Rittimann FR 6-0/175 Quarterback San Antonio, Texas Johnson
5 Patrick Mahomes FR 6-3/215 Quarterback 2 Whitehouse, Texas Whitehouse
10 Payne Sullins FR 6-2/175 Quarterback Gatesville, Texas Reicher
16 Vincent Testaverde FR 6-1/187 Quarterback Tampa, Fla. Jesuit
21 DeAndre Washington JR 5-8/201 Running Back 1 Missouri City, Texas Thurgood Marshall "Stockton could eventually make a move, but picking up the pass protection part may be better suited to Washington and White. I think all three backs are really supremely talented and Kingsbury really can't go wrong. Washington is going to be special.
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27 Demarcus Felton FR 5-7/175 Running Back Houston Dekaney
8 Justin Stockton FR 5-10/180 Running Back Cibolo, Texas Steele
26 Kenneth Huggins JR 5-7/155 Running Back Plano, Texas Prestonwood Christian
29 Mason Reed FR 6-2/205 Running Back Cisco, Texas Cisco
37 Quinton White SO 5-7/200 Running Back 2 College Station, Texas A&M Consolidated
83 Brad Pearson JR 6-1/206 Wide Receiver Lubbock, Texas Monterey While some, if not all of the Freshmen here could be redshirted, a few may still be in the mix for playing time, especially Dillard. The others will be trying to get into the mix as well, with Wheeler and Corker probably in the best positions.
28 Dominique Wheeler SO 6-1/186 Wide Receiver Crockett, Texas Crockett
38 Ja'Deion High FR 5-11/186 Wide Receiver Hereford, Texas Hereford
18 Jakari Dillard FR 6-4/185 Wide Receiver Princeton, Texas Princeton
87 Kash Knutson FR 5-11/173 Wide Receiver San Antonio, Texas Ronald Reagan
86 Matt Mayle SO 5-10/176 Wide Receiver Cibolo, Texas Incarnate Word
9 Shawn Corker SR 6-1/186 Wide Receiver Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cardinal Gibbons
33 Stanton Keane FR 6-0/210 Wide Receiver Lubbock, Texas Cooper
84 Zach Austin FR 5-11/170 Wide Receiver Austin, Texas Lake Travis
82 Brent Mitcham SR 5-9/177 Wide Receiver H 2 Houston, Texas Cypress Creek Grant is the star of the show for this Inside slot, but we just haven't talked about him as much. Kingsbury said that Grant has had the best camp of any receiver that he has seen. With Sadler and Batson, it appears that it may be a best-man-wins situation.
13 Cameron Batson FR 5-9/173 Wide Receiver H/ PR 1 Oklahoma City, Okla. Millwood
12 Ian Sadler FR 5-10/190 Wide Receiver H Argyle, Texas Argyle
11 Jakeem Grant JR 5-6/169 Wide Receiver H 1/ KR1 Mesquite, Texas Mesquite Horn
3 D.J. Polite-Bray SO 5-11/183 Wide Receiver X 1 Lithonia, Ga. Martin Luther King Earlier this week, Eric Morris talked about how Polite-Bray is still a bit inconsistent and it makes sense for both Polite-Bray and Lauderdale to push each other all year.
6 Devin Lauderdale SO 6-0/180 Wide Receiver X 2 Houston, Texas Navarro College
4 Bradley Marquez SR 6-0/203 Wide Receiver Y 1/ KH 1 Odessa, Texas Odessa In the same interview, Davis is praised by Morris as having an outstanding camp thus far among this inside slot. Cantrell offers something that this team really doesn't have in terms of a big-bodied receiver.
89 Caleb Woodward FR 6-0/203 Wide Receiver Y Leander, Texas Leander
85 Jordan Davis SR 5-10/176 Wide Receiver Y 2/ PR 2 Arlington, Texas Southwestern Oklahoma State
14 Dylan Cantrell SO 6-3/211 Wide Receiver Z 2 Whitehouse, Texas Whitehouse The expectation is that Marquez will have a huge impact in this role and will make a dangerous combination with Grant opposite him.
2 Reginald Davis SO 6-0/192 Wide Receiver Z 1/ KR 2 Tenaha, Texas Tenaha

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