Carder Appears In Yahoo! Sports Countdown
7/6/2011 12:00:00 AM | Football
July 6, 2011
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU linebacker Tank Carder has been ranked 51st in the Yahoo! Sports/Rivals.com countdown of the nation's top players.
Fellow Horned Frog linebacker Tanner Brock was ranked 95th earlier. Carder and Brock are two of six returning starters on defense for TCU this fall.
Carder, a first-team All-American last season and the Rose Bowl's Defensive Most Valuable Player, has been key in TCU leading the nation in total defense each of the last three years.
A senior from Sweeny, Texas, Carder posted 60 tackles last season, including 9 1/2 for loss. He totaled 3 1/2 sacks, five pass breakups and an interception.
In the 21-19 Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin, Carder broke up the Badgers' potential game-tying 2-point pass with exactly two minutes to play. He totaled six tackles in the contest, including three for loss with a sack.
After TCU took a 21-13 lead on its opening possession of the second half, Wisconsin drove to the Horned Frogs' 37 on its ensuring series. On a third-and-6, Carder recorded a sack for an 8-yard loss.
Carder's 158 career tackles are tops among active Horned Frogs.
