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Ty Morris
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Houston, Texas
- High School:
- Dekaney
Bio
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Honors at Rice
2024
Second team All-AAC by College Football News after leading the team with a career-best 56 tackles and four sacks… Second on the squad with 7.5 TFL, tied for fourth in QB hits (3) and fifth in total pressures (13)… Saw action in all 12 games (429 snaps) and made the first four starts of his career (Houston, UConn, Navy, Memphis)… Three of his four sacks and five of his TFLs came on the road… Credited with a career-best eight tackles at Army… Recorded a career-best four unassisted stops vs. UTSA and matched that total the following game at Tulane… Credited with 1.5 tackles for loss at Tulane, including a sack for a loss of 16 yards.
2023
True freshman who joined his older brother Elroyal in action with the Owls, playing in 12 games on special teams and nine on defense… Credited with nine tackles and a shared sack in his debut season… Credited with his first two career tackles in action vs. Texas Southern and added a pair of assists the following week at South Florida… Saw his most extensive action vs. SMU with 26 defensive snaps and was credited with a career-high three tackles and also broke up a pass… Teamed with DJ Arkansas on a combined sack vs. Florida Atlantic for his first tackle for loss.
DeKaney HS
Joins his brother Elroyal at Rice after earning District14-6A Co-Defensive MVP as a senior for coach Anthony Williams helping spark the Wildcats to the third round of the 2022 6A D2 playoffs… A member of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Hot 300… Credited with 149 tackles, 22 for loss (2 sacks) as a senior and amassed 300 tackles (31 for loss, five sacks) in his career… District MVP as a shortstop in baseball as a senior and a two-time, all-district pick…in the top 1% of his class… Named Dekaney’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year and graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Personal Full name: Ty Anthony Morris … Born: July 13… Parents: Elroyal and Tanya Morris… one brother.. Rice Major: Health Sciences... Rice College: Brown.
Brown College
Honors at Rice
- American Conference All-Academic 2024, 2025
- All-AAC 2024 (CFN, second team)
- Jess Neely Defensive Award 2024
Second team All-AAC by College Football News after leading the team with a career-best 56 tackles and four sacks… Second on the squad with 7.5 TFL, tied for fourth in QB hits (3) and fifth in total pressures (13)… Saw action in all 12 games (429 snaps) and made the first four starts of his career (Houston, UConn, Navy, Memphis)… Three of his four sacks and five of his TFLs came on the road… Credited with a career-best eight tackles at Army… Recorded a career-best four unassisted stops vs. UTSA and matched that total the following game at Tulane… Credited with 1.5 tackles for loss at Tulane, including a sack for a loss of 16 yards.
2023
True freshman who joined his older brother Elroyal in action with the Owls, playing in 12 games on special teams and nine on defense… Credited with nine tackles and a shared sack in his debut season… Credited with his first two career tackles in action vs. Texas Southern and added a pair of assists the following week at South Florida… Saw his most extensive action vs. SMU with 26 defensive snaps and was credited with a career-high three tackles and also broke up a pass… Teamed with DJ Arkansas on a combined sack vs. Florida Atlantic for his first tackle for loss.
DeKaney HS
Joins his brother Elroyal at Rice after earning District14-6A Co-Defensive MVP as a senior for coach Anthony Williams helping spark the Wildcats to the third round of the 2022 6A D2 playoffs… A member of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Hot 300… Credited with 149 tackles, 22 for loss (2 sacks) as a senior and amassed 300 tackles (31 for loss, five sacks) in his career… District MVP as a shortstop in baseball as a senior and a two-time, all-district pick…in the top 1% of his class… Named Dekaney’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year and graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Personal Full name: Ty Anthony Morris … Born: July 13… Parents: Elroyal and Tanya Morris… one brother.. Rice Major: Health Sciences... Rice College: Brown.
Brown College
WBB: Rice vs. Marshall Postgame Presser
Wednesday, March 09
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Saturday, December 04
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