Five Former Frogs In NFL Playoffs This Weekend
1/13/2012 12:00:00 AM | Football
Jan. 13, 2012
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Five former TCU football standouts will be in action during this weekend's NFL playoffs.
Safety Colin Jones is a rookie with the San Francisco 49ers. He has totaled six tackles in special teams duty this season.
The New England Patriots have a pair of rookies from TCU in offensive tackle Marcus Cannon and defensive back Malcolm Williams.
Cannon was selected by his Patriots' teammates as the recipient of the team's 2011 Ed Block Courage Award. After beginning the season on the reserve/non-football injury list, he played in New England's final seven games of the regular season.
Williams has seen action in two contests.
The defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers have two former Horned Frog offensive tackles in Marshall Newhouse and Herb Taylor.
Newhouse has made 13 starts while playing in all 16 games this season.
Newhouse (38) and Taylor (49) combined for 87 starts in their Horned Frog careers. Taylor started every game over his four seasons (2003-06). Newhouse and Taylor were teammates one year (2006) at TCU.
Last weekend, former TCU great and current Cincinnati Bengal Andy Dalton became the only rookie quarterback in NFL history to be drafted outside the first round, start all 16 games and lead his team to the playoffs. Dalton was a second-round pick.
Fourteen former Horned Frog players were active in the NFL this season.
As TCU's head coach, Gary Patterson has had 29 players drafted with a total of 60 in NFL camps.
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