The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2024 Football Roster
Roster
Bill Norton
- Position:
- DL
- Height:
- 6-6
- Hometown:
- Memphis, Tenn.
- Weight:
- 335
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Christian Brothers
- Previous School:
- Georgia / Arizona
A first-year defensive lineman who transferred to Texas from Arizona in summer 2024 ... has played in 53 career collegiate football games during a six-year career on the gridiron: Georgia (2019-22), Arizona (2023) and Texas (2024) ... has totaled 57 career tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, three pass breakups, three forced fumbles and one sack during his collegiate football career ...
SENIOR (2024)
Has played in 14 games during the 2024 campaign ... 84.6 percent of his tackle total came against SEC foes ... had a season-high three stops at Vanderbilt (10/26) ... in Texas' first-round College Football Playoff (CFP) game against Clemson (12/21), had two tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack and one forced fumble ... was credited with a quarterback hurry against ULM (9/21) ... also had a pair of tackles against Mississippi State (9/28) and vs. Oklahoma (10/12) ...
BEFORE TEXAS
A graduate transfer defensive lineman from Arizona, who also previously played at Georgia from 2019-2022 … helped Georgia to back-to-back National Championships in 2021-22 … appeared in all 13 games for Arizona, starting all but the Stanford game, during the 2023 season … collected 32 tackles (14 solo, 18 assists) with 2.5 tackles for a loss of five yards, two fumbles, five pressures and three pass breakups ... helped Arizona finish fifth in the Pac-12 and 25th nationally in rush defense, allowing 118.23 yards per game ... helped the defense finish fifth in the nation on fourth downs (30.0%) and 17th in the red zone (76.0%) ... limited opponents to 21.1 points per game, which was 29th nationally ... helped the Wildcats win seven straight games to close the season, tying the longest single-season winning streak in program history … notched at least three tackles in seven games … secured three tackles with a tackle for loss against Northern Arizona … registered two tackles with a half tackle for loss and two pressures against Washington … forced a fumble to go along with three solo tackles at Washington State … made four tackles with a pressure and a pass breakup against Oregon State … recorded three tackles, a forced fumble, two pass breakups and a pressure at Colorado … posted a season-high six tackles (3 solo, 3 assists) against Utah ... secured three tackles with a tackle for loss at Arizona State … notched two tackles against Oklahoma in the Alamo Bowl … played four seasons at the University of Georgia including a Covid year … saw action as a reserve defensive lineman and on special teams in all 13 games with Georgia in 2022 … had two unassisted tackles in a season-opening win over No. 11 Oregon … had one tackle for a two-yard loss in win over Kent State … played in six games in 2021… saw his first action of the season in a win over UAB and was credited with an assisted tackle for a loss of four yards ... also played against South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Missouri and Charleston Southern … had a QB pressure versus South Carolina and an assisted tackle at Vanderbilt … assisted on two stops in a win over Missouri … in 2020, saw action as a reserve defensive lineman in the season-opening win at Arkansas, along with the Florida, South Carolina, and Missouri games ... credited with an assisted tackle for loss against Florida … in 2019, saw action in the Murray State, Arkansas State and Georgia Tech games ... had two assisted tackles versus Arkansas State … made two solo stops against Georgia Tech including a tackle for loss … played at Christian Brothers High School and was coached by Thomas McDaniel … selected to play in the 2018 AutoZone Liberty Bowl prep all-star game … 247Sports.com four-star prospect, No. 8 strongside defensive end prospect nationally and the No. 3 player in the state of Tennessee … PrepStar Magazine four-star prospect, No. 103 ranked prospect nationally, No. 11 defensive end … ESPN.com four-star prospect, No. 121 nationally, No. 14 offensive tackle prospect and No. 3 in Tennessee … Rivals.com four-star prospect, No. 240 nationally, No. 21 OT and No. 7 in Tennessee … led CBHS to an 8-3 record and the second round of the 2018 TSSAA Division II Class 3A state playoffs … named as a finalist for Tennessee’s Mr. Football Award in 2018 … honored as the 2017 Tennessee Titans Mr. Tennessee for Class 3A his junior year and was named a semifinalist for the award in 2018 … selected to the 2018 Division II Class 3A All-Region First Team defense by league coaches ... recorded 55 tackles (10 for lost yards) and six sacks for the Purple Wave in 2018 … tabbed for the USA Today 2018 Preseason All-State First Team defense for Tennessee … led the Purple Wave to an undefeated regular season, a 12-1 overall record, a No. 7 ranking in Tennessee and a semifinals appearance in the 2017 TSSAA Division II Class 3A state playoffs as a junior ... reached the quarterfinals of the state playoffs in all four seasons at Christian Brothers and compiled a 40-11 career record ... four-year member of the Christian Brothers varsity basketball team.
