FWST: TCU position outlook: A year later, linebacker unit goes deeper
BY CARLOS MENDEZÂ cmendez@star-telegram.com
A year ago, TCU began the season with Sammy Douglas and Mike Freeze at linebacker. They ended it with a couple of safeties, Montrel Wilson and Travin Howard.
A season-ending knee injury to Douglas and a departure for personal reasons in Freeze’s case left the Horned Frogs scrambling for two new starters by Week 2. Wilson and Howard, backkup safeties, may not have been the optimal choices, but they were fast and made tackles, and that counted for a lot. By season’s end, they were first and fifth on the team in tackles. They return in 2016 as the starters.
Douglas is healed, Ty Summers is back after a strong finish to his freshman season, and four-star junior college transfer Tyree Horton is aboard to add depth.