Which players from DFW will play in the 12-team College Football Playoffs?
The first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off on Friday night when Indiana travels to South Bend, Ind. to take on Notre Dame. Of the 12 teams playing for the National Championship over the next month, 119 players will represent the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
SMU will field the most local players, as 47 DFW products will lead the No. 11-seed Mustangs into a first-round playoff matchup with No. 6-seed Penn State on Saturday at 11 a.m. CST. No. 5-seed Texas has the second-most local products with 31 players.
Here is the list of players from Dallas-Fort Worth that will play in the expanded field.
The No. 1-seed Oregon Ducks will have safety Aaron Flowers (Forney), cornerback Jabbar Muhammad (DeSoto) and wide receiver Evan Stewart (Frisco Liberty) representing Dallas-Fort Worth.
The No. 2-seed Georgia Bulldogs will have quarterback Collin Drake and running back Cash Jones representing Dallas-Fort Worth. Both are walk-on players with the program.
The No.3-seed Boise State Broncos will have running back Ashton Jeanty (Frisco Lone Star), wide receiver Cameron Bates (Mansfield Timberview), tight end Mitch Bothwell (Fort Worth All Saints), wide receiver Cameron Camper (Lancaster), wide receiver Latrell Caples (Lancaster), running back Jambres Dubar (Anna), defensive end Nick Hawthorne (Boswell), cornerback Franklyn Johnson Jr. (Little Elm), defensive tackle Michael Madrie (Argyle), tight end Matt Wagner (Prosper Rock Hill) and safety Zion Washington (Frisco Reedy) representing the area.
The No. 4-seed Arizona State Sun Devils will have wide receiver Jordyn Tyson (Allen), defensive back Keith Abney (Waxahachie), running back Kyson Brown (Lancaster), linebacker Jordan Crook (Duncanville), defensive back Chris Johnson II (Aledo), defensive back Tony Louis-Nkuba (Lewisville), defensive back Joseph McGinnis II (Prosper Rock Hill), defensive end Prince Dorbah (Highland Park), offensive lineman Josh Atkins (Mansfield Timberview), wide receiver Derek Eusebio (Parish Episcopal) and tight end Cameron Harpole (Prosper).
The No. 5-seed Texas Longhorns have linebacker Anthony Hill Jr. (Denton Ryan), quarterback Quinn Ewers (Southlake Carroll), cornerback Malik Muhammad (Dallas South Oak Cliff), defensive end Colin Simmons (Duncanville), wide receiver Parker Livingstone (Lovejoy), safety Xavier Filsaime (McKinney), defensive end Zina Umeozulu (Allen), safety Jordon Johnson-Rubell (Fort Worth Brewer), running back Velton Gardner (Dallas Skyline), safety Warren Roberson (Red Oak), running back Quintrevion Wisner (DeSoto), running back Reid Watkins (Fort Worth All Saints), linebacker Morice Blackwell Jr. (Arlington Martin), defensive back Ziky Umeozulu (Allen), linebacker Eric Garza (Southlake Carroll), kicker Bert Auburn (Flower Mound), linebacker Michael Flanagan (Frisco Wakeland), offensive lineman Daniel Cruz (North Richland Hills), linebacker Marshall Landwehr (Highland Park), offensive lineman Devon Campbell (Arlington Bowie), offensive lineman Cole Hutson (Frisco), offensive tackle Cameron Williams (Duncanville), offensive tackle Robert Sweeney (Highland Park), center Jake Majors (Prosper), offensive lineman Neto Umeozulu (Allen), offensive tackle Trevor Goosby (Melissa), offensive lineman Andre Cojoe (Mansfield Timberview), offensive lineman Connor Stroh (Frisco Wakeland), tight end Juan Davis (Everman), tight end Ridge Barker (Lovejoy) and defensive tackle Alex January (Duncanville) representing the Metroplex.
The No. 6-seed Penn State Nittany Lions will have cornerback Jalen Kimber (Mansfield Timberview) and offensive tackle Addison Penn (Southlake Carroll) representing DFW.
The No. 7-seed Notre Dame Fighting Irish will have wide receiver KK Smith (Frisco Reedy) and running back Jadarian Price (Denison) from the area.
The No. 8-seed Ohio State Buckeyes will have cornerback Calvin Simpson-Hunt (Waxahachie) and linebacker Payton Pierce (Lovejoy) representing Dallas-Fort Worth.
The No. 9-seed Tennessee Volunteers has offensive tackle Andrej Karic (Southlake Carroll) and offensive lineman Max Anderson (Frisco Reedy) representing the area.
The No. 10-seed Indiana Hoosiers will field wide receiver Myles Price (The Colony), defensive back Bryson Bonds (Crowley) and kicker Nicholas Radicic (Coppell) from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The No. 11-seed SMU Mustangs will have cornerback William Nettles (Dallas Christian), running back Camar Wheaton (Garland Lakeview Centennial), cornerback Brandon Crossley (Little Elm), safety Jonathan McGill (Coppell), quarterback Preston Stone (Parish Episcopal), safety Ahmaad Moses (Mansfield Summit), quarterback Keldric Luster (McKinney), cornerback Deuce Harmon (Denton Guyer), quarterback Kevin Jennings (Dallas South Oak Cliff), wide receiver Jordan Hudson (Garland), safety Jaden Millner-Jones (DeSoto), wide receiver Roderick Daniels Jr. (Duncanville), cornerback Jaelyn Davis-Robinson (Waxahachie), cornerback AJ Davis (Dallas Skyline), wide receiver Jaxson Lavender (Lovejoy), defensive end Cameron Robertson (Plano), defensive end David Abiara (Mansfield Legacy), wide receiver Ashton Cozart (Flower Mound Marcus), wide receiver Randy Reece (Dallas South Oak Cliff), cornerback Alexander Rodgers (Cedar Hill), linebacker Zach Smith (Red Oak), cornerback Kyron Chambers (Dallas South Oak Cliff), safety Isaiah Nwokobia (Dallas Skyline), safety Abdul Muhammad (Dallas South Oak Cliff), linebacker Brandon Booker (DeSoto), running back Zach Hernandez (Dallas Christian), linebacker Brandon Miyazono (Frisco), defensive end Billy Walton III (Dallas South Oak Cliff), cornerback Dante Wesley II (Cedar Hill), safety Jake Bullard (Flower Mound Marcus), quarterback Maddox Fuller (Lovejoy), tight end Stone Eby (Flower Mound Marcus), tight end Markus Schumacher (Trinity Christian Academy), linebacker Xavier Wright (Garland), offensive lineman Justin Osborne (Flower Mound Marcus), offensive lineman Savion Byrd (Duncanville), long snapper Brock O’Quinn (Southlake Carroll), offensive lineman Hunter Ryan (Parish Episcopal), offensive lineman Nate Anderson (Frisco Reedy), tight end RJ Maryland (Southlake Carroll), wide receiver Case Holleron (Hebron), tight end Tripp Riordan (Frisco Wakeland), defensive tackle Blake Burris (Parish Episcopal), defensive tackle Kevin Allen (Everman), kicker Sam Keltner (Keller), defensive lineman Christian de Moor (Frisco Legacy Christian) and defensive tackle Mike Yoan Sandjo-Njiki (Keller Timber Creek).
The No. 12-seed Clemson Tigers will field just three players from the area in safety R.J. Mickens (Southlake Carroll), cornerback Corian Gipson (Lancaster) and wide receiver Bryant Wesco Jr. (Midlothian).
This story was originally published December 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM.
