2015 Preview: Boykin Headlines QBs
8/16/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football
Trevone Boykin (6-2, 205, Sr.) returns for his senior season after earning Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and All-America honors in 2014. He won the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award and was fourth in Heisman Trophy voting.
Boykin placed fourth in the nation in total offense (354.5 yards per game). He completed 61.2 percent of his pass attempts while setting TCU records with 3,901 yards and 33 touchdowns. He was also second on the Horned Frogs in rushing with 707 yards and eight touchdowns on a 4.7 per carry mark. The Dallas native was just the third quarterback nationally since 2009 to average at least 300 yards per game passing (300.1) and 50 rushing (54.4). The others to accomplish the mark were Heisman winners Robert Griffin III and Johnny Manziel.
Boykin, the 2015 Preseason Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, appears on watch lists for five national awards (Davey O'Brien Award, Manning Award, Maxwell Award, Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award and Walter Camp Player of the Year).
Bram Kohlhausen (6-2, 203, Sr.) entered fall camp in a second-team position behind Boykin. He appeared in four games last year and completed 7-of-9 passes for 43 yards. Kohlhausen arrived at TCU last season from Los Angeles Harbor College. He began his collegiate career at the University of Houston and saw action in three games for the Cougars.
Foster Sawyer (6-5, 228, RFr.) and Grayson Muehlstein (6-4, 210, RFr.) both redshirted last season in their first fall on campus.
Sawyer was the 2013 Star-Telegram Player of the Year. The Fort Worth native completed 65.6 percent of his passes for 2,867 yards with 48 touchdowns and just two interceptions as a senior for All Saints' Episcopal School. He was the No. 2 quarterback prospect in Texas and No. 13 nationally by Scout.com. Sawyer tossed for six touchdown passes in the 2012 state title game.
Muehlstein, from Decatur, Texas, was ranked as the No. 4 quarterback in Texas and No. 31 nationally in 2013. He earned District 9-3A Co-Offensive Most Valuable Player honors as a senior.
Kenny Hill (6-1, 215, Jr.) will sit out this season per NCAA transfer rules. He'll be a scout-team quarterback for the Horned Frogs in 2015 and then have two seasons of eligibility. The Southlake, Texas, native started the opening eight games of the 2014 campaign for Texas A&M. He passed for 2,649 yards and 23 touchdowns while completing 66.7 percent of his attempts.
BY THE NUMBERS:
2 - Number of TCU quarterbacks (Andy Dalton, 2010; Trevone Boykin, 2015) to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated over the last six years
4 - Trevone Boykin's finish in 2014 Heisman Trophy voting
6 - Bram Kohlhausen's 2011 ESPN quarterback ranking in the state of Texas as a senior at Lamar High School (TCU tight end Dominic Merka was No. 3 with Trevone Boykin at No. 20)
7 - Single-game TCU record for touchdown passes set by Trevone Boykin in last year's win over Texas Tech
520 - Yards passing by TCU co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Sonny Cumbie in his final collegiate game, the 2004 Holiday Bowl
