FWST: TCU position outlook: Post-Doctson, options abound at receiver

The Star-Telegram takes a look at the 2016 TCU football team position-by-position as the season approaches. The first game is at 7 p.m. Sept. 3 vs. South Dakota State at Amon G. Carter Stadium.

There’s no Josh Doctson in the receiver group at TCU anymore, but there is a Deante’ Gray and a Ty Slanina. Both veterans are back and healthy after either missing a year (in Gray’s case) or most of it (in Slanina’s case), joining a group that already has one of last season’s most productive freshmen, Kavontae Turpin, and two others who emerged down the stretch, Jarrison Stewart and Jaelan Austin.

TCU also added four-star freshman Isaiah Graham, junior college standout Taj Williams and LSU graduate transfer John Diarse to a mix of other veterans that includes Emanuel Porter and Desmon White. Last season’s second-leading receiver, Shaun Nixon, will miss the year because of injury, but he was due to move back to running back, anyway.