2017 Football Roster
Roster
Tyrae Thornton
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 171
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Houston, Texas
- High School:
- Cy Ridge
2019
Played in all 12 games and made 11 starts at cornerback and reached career-highs in tackles (41) and passes defended (7)… Second among active Owls with 10 career passes defended… Top tackle effort was a career-high seven vs. Texas at NRG Stadium… Broke up a career-high three passes vs. LA Tech… Shared TFL against LA Tech and UAB… Closed strongly, with 22 tackles over his last five games.
2018
Played in 12 of 13 games with four starts, including the last three in a row... Closed the year with a career-high five tackles (one for a two-yard loss)and a pass breakup vs. ODU... Credited with a pair of tackles and his first fumble recovery at UNT... Made his first career start vs. Houston and was credited with three tackles.
2017
Redshirted in his first season with the Owls.
Cy Ridge High School
All-District 17-6A for coach Gary Thiebaud at Cy Ridge, helping spark the Rams to the Region 3 championship game as a senior... Credited with 68 tackles, 10 PBU, two TFL and interceptions while scoring three times as a senior... Completed his career with 132 tackles, 17 PBUs and two interceptions... Also scored three touchdowns in his career... Dave Campbell's Texas Football's preseason Subway Super team (3rd team) & Texas Top 300... DCTF's Class of 2017... Comes from the same program that produced Rice current Owls DeAngelo Evans and Dasharm Newsome... Also competed in wrestling, finishing second in the district as a junior, and track in and field... THSCA Academic All-State.
Personal
Full name: TyRae Thornton... Born: December 31 at Bellaire, Texas... Parents: Darryl Bush and LaVonda Thornton... (one brother, one sister)... Stepfather played at Tulsa... Rice major: History... Rice College: Wiess.
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