The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Football names 2019 captains
08.20.2019 | Football
Five Longhorns added their names to a list of Texas Football Captains on Tuesday.
AUSTIN, Texas – After a team vote, The University of Texas Football program announced Tuesday that QB Sam Ehlinger, WR Collin Johnson, DB Brandon Jones, DE Malcolm Roach and OL Zach Shackelford will serve as the Longhorns' 2019 team captains.
The Texas program has annually named one or more team captains since the program's inception in 1893. Five captains have been selected in each of Tom Herman's three seasons as head coach, and 2019 marks the second time during his tenure that all five are first-time selections (2017).
More information on each of the captains, presented in alphabetical order by last name:
2019 Captain. Sam Ehlinger. 🤘#ThisIsTexas #HookEm pic.twitter.com/lzG7a2cdAe
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) August 20, 2019
Ehlinger, an Austin, Texas native, played in and started all 14 games a season ago. He was named honorable mention All-Big 12 by the league's head coaches and a semifinalist for the 2018 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award after finishing the year with 3,292 passing yards, 25 passing touchdowns and 16 more scores on the ground. His 16 rushing touchdowns are a UT record for quarterbacks and he is the first player in Texas history to pass for at least 25 touchdowns and rush for at least 15 in a season. Ehlinger's 41 touchdowns responsible for in 2018 are the second-most in school history, trailing only Colt McCoy's 45 touchdowns in 2008.
2019 Captain. Collin Johnson. 🤘#ThisIsTexas #HookEm pic.twitter.com/hmqUtJXj6g
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) August 20, 2019
Johnson, a native of San Jose, Calif., is a fourth-year wide receiver who has played in 38 games with 22 starts during his UT career. He enters his senior season with 150 receptions (ninth-most in school history) for 2,065 yards (ninth-most in school history) and 12 touchdowns. In 2018, Johnson played in 13 games and was second on the team with 68 catches for 985 yards and seven touchdowns. Johnson set a Big 12 Championship Game-record last year with 177 receiving yards on nine catches with a touchdown against the Sooners. He concluded a productive junior season with three catches for 40 yards in the Longhorns' 28-21 win over No. 5 Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
2019 Captain. Brandon Jones. 🤘#ThisIsTexas #HookEm pic.twitter.com/zpHuJQurGA
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) August 20, 2019
Jones, a native of Nacogdoches, Texas, is a fourth-year defensive back who has played in 34 career games with 23 starts. So far in 2019, he has been named to the Lott IMPACT Trophy watch list and was a fourth-team preseason All-Big 12 selection by Phil Steele. In 2018, Jones was fourth on the team with 70 tackles (48 solo), made 5.5 tackles for loss, intercepted two passes, recovered two fumbles, logged one quarterback hurry and broke up one pass. He was named honorable mention All-Big 12 for his efforts as a junior.
2019 Captain. Malcolm Roach. 🤘#ThisIsTexas #HookEm pic.twitter.com/QMmZr3jsfF
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) August 20, 2019
Roach, a Baton Rouge, La. native, is a fourth-year defensive lineman who has played in 34 career games. Last year, Roach made 24 tackles (17 solo) with 1.5 tackles for loss, two quarterback hurries and one pass breakup. He logged five tackles in the Big 12 Championship Game against Oklahoma and had four tackles in Texas' 28-21 win over No. 5 Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
2019 Captain. Zach Shackelford. 🤘#ThisIsTexas #HookEm pic.twitter.com/REsBWmoKyg
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) August 20, 2019
Shackelford, a Belton, Texas native, is a preseason watch list candidate for the Rimington Trophy and Outland Trophy after being named first-team All-Big 12 by the Associated Press and second team by the league's coaches in 2018. Shackelford started 10 games last year, including a trio of top-20 wins over No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 18 Iowa State and No. 5 Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This year, he enters his fourth season on the Forty Acres having played in 40 games, including 27 career starts.
