17 NFL Rosters Feature TCU Players

Thirty-two former TCU players are on active NFL rosters.

Seventeen teams have at least one Horned Frog with the Minnesota Vikings leading the way with four (Alan Ali, Ross Blacklock, Jalen Reagor, Austin Schlottmann). 

The longest-tenured TCU player in the NFL is Houston Texans defensive end Jerry Hughes, set to begin his 14th season this fall.  

TCU's eight selections in this year's NFL Draft led the Big 12 Conference and schools in the state of Texas, placed fourth nationally and set a program record since the NFL went to its current seven round format in 1994. The Horned Frogs also had three players sign free-agent contracts from their 2022 College Football Playoff team.

TCU Players on NFL Rosters
 

Alan Ali, OL, Minnesota Vikings
Steve Avila, OG, Los Angeles Rams
Ben Banogu, DE, Dallas Cowboys
Taye Barber, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Ross Blacklock, DL, Minnesota Vikings
L.J. Collier, DL, Arizona Cardinals
Andy Dalton, QB, Carolina Panthers
Derius Davis, WR, Los Angeles Chargers
Emari Demercado, RB, Arizona Cardinals
Max Duggan, QB, Los Angeles Chargers
Obinna Eze, OT, Detroit Lions
Innis Gaines, S, Green Bay Packers
Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson, CB, Los Angeles Rams
Dylan Horton, DE, Houston Texas
Travin Howard, LB, Buffalo Bills
Jerry Hughes, DE, Houston Texans
Joey Hunt, C, Seattle Seahawks
Quentin Johnston, WR, Los Angeles Chargers
Kendre Miller, RB, New Orleans Saints
Tre'von Moehrig, S, Las Vegas Raiders
Lucas Niang, OL, Kansas City Chiefs
Joe Noteboom, OT, Los Angeles Rams
Matt Pryor, OL, San Francisco 49ers
Jalen Reagor, WR, Minnesota Vikings
Austin Schlottmann, OG/C, Minnesota Vikings
Vernon Scott, DB, Carolina Panthers
Ty Summers, LB, New Orleans Saints
KaVontae Turpin, WR, Dallas Cowboys
Halapoulivaati Vaitai, OG, Detroit Lions
Garret Wallow, LB, Houston Texans
Ar'Darius Washington, S, Baltimore Ravens
Dee Winters, LB, San Francisco 49ers

 

 

TCU Baseball Wins Fort Worth Super Regional, Earns College World Series Berth in Omaha

 

TCU Baseball is headed to Omaha, Nebraska, again for the 2023 NCAA College World Series (CWS). 

This is TCU's sixth trip to the College World Series and the first since 2017. It also is the Frogs' first CWS appearance under second-year head coach Kirk Saarloos.

The Horned Frogs will be joined in the 2023 World Series at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha by No. 1-seed Wake Forest, No. 2-seed Florida, No. 5-seed LSU, No. 7-seed Virginia, Oral Roberts, Stanford and Tennessee.

TCU is in a four-team bracket with Florida, Virginia and Oral Roberts. 

TCU's first game will be against Oral Roberts, at 1 pm CT, on Friday, June 16. ESPN will televise the game.

The other four-team CWS bracket is Wake Forest, LSU, Stanford and Tennessee.

Oral Roberts, which is a small evangelical school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and whose baseball team is a member of the low-major Summit League, is making its first College World Series appearance since 1978.

Oral Roberts was a four-seed in the Stillwater, Oklahoma, regional, and is the lowest seed to reach the College World Series since Stony Brook in 2012. The Golden Eagles won the Stillwater regional by beating Oklahoma State, Washington and Dallas Baptist. Oral Roberts beat the University of Oregon, two-games-to-one, in the Eugene, Oregon, Super Regional.

Oral Roberts' Josh Cox has a 47-game hitting streak and has had a hit in all but one of Oral Roberts' games this season.

TCU earned its World Series berth by sweeping two games over 14th-national-seed Indiana State in the Fort Worth Super Regional. On Friday, June 9, TCU beat the Sycamores 4-1. On Saturday, June 10, the Horned Frogs won 6-4, in front of a record crowd of 8,994 at Lupton Stadium. It is the largest crowd ever for a college baseball game in Texas.

Indiana State qualified for a Super Regional by winning the Terra Haute regional it hosted the prior week. As a national seed, Indiana State had qualified to host a Super Regional in Terra Haute, but because of logistical and staffing concerns, the Sycamores declined the hosting role and traveled to Fort Worth. 

TCU qualified for a Super Regional by winning a regional tournament hosted by Arkansas in Fayettville, Arkansas, the prior weekend. TCU won the regional by beating Arizona and Arkansas twice. The Pigs were a third seed nationally.

TCU is now 63-42 all-time in NCAA postseason play. TCU improved to 13-8 in NCAA Super Regional play, including a mark of 8-2 at Lupton Stadium.

TCU participated in the College World Series in 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, under the leadership of then-head coach Jim Schlossnagle. The Frogs' best finish in the tournament has been third place.

TCU goes into this year's College World Series on an 11-game winning streak, which is its longest since it won 11 straight in 2021.

The opening ceremonies of the College World Series are scheduled for Thursday, June 15. 

The best-two-out-of-three championship series between the winners of the two brackets is scheduled for Saturday, June 24, Sunday, June 25, and, if necessary, Monday, June 26. 

Additional College World Series information: here