TYLER, Texas (KETK) – The Texas College Steers learned from last year’s one-win season and are hard at work cleaning up the things that held them back in 2025.
“Taking what we did from the winning season and implementing it now and eliminating the distractions and eliminating the things we did wrong from last year and try to come up with a better game plan overall as a team to have a better season this year,” senior middle linebacker Dylan DuBois said. “Getting out of the way. Getting out of trouble. Like, not causing more havoc on the field. Playing between the whistles. That's our number one rule too.”
“No pre-snap mistakes. All of that. We just trynna stay on one snap. So, it should be good this year. As long as we keep the ball off the ground, complete the passes and take what they give us we'll be good,” senior wide receiver Tylan Crochett added.
Crochett and DuBois will lead the Steers on both sides of the ball and are determined to get the Steers’ ship headed back in the right direction.
“I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm just trying to get the ball in my hands and get the band playing. Make six, put six up on the board every game. I'm just ready to go,” Crochett said.
“Savage life. Savages. That's it. Savages. We coming. We coming. Defense, you know we coming every year. It's gonna be worse this year. It's up,” DuBois said.
Sophomore kicker and punter Ulysses Bravo said the Steers’ togetherness will play a major role in their success.
“It's helped us out at least through the second end of last season, you know, we started bonding together and just going stronger and this summer it was all shown. Right now, we're just cleaning up the little rough spots and that's it,” Bravo said.
Steers head coach Jarrail Jackson enters his fifth season at the helm and is the first to take ownership for last year’s struggles.
He likes what he’s seen from this year’s group.
“They're growing up. Real athletic. A lot of speed. A lot of size. Guys just gotta hone in on the little things, the little details. Air raid we gonna throw it around so you gotta make sure you know where you at and where you supposed to be,” Jackson said.
Jackson said the Steers will be up tempo on offense and flying around on defense.
He’s excited for the upcoming season and proud of the program he and his staff continue to build at Texas College, especially with the amount of players returning, moving on to higher levels and the ones continuing to make an impact in Tyler.
“We in the community, like Reverend Caraway at St. Louis Church been really, really good like instrumental at getting guys out. We been in the churches. We been in the community. Little league teams. So we want people to come out and see what we got. It's gonna be a good team, an exciting team and we'll have some fun,” Jackson said.
Texas College opens the 2026 season on the road at Doane University on Saturday, August 29.
Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. at Al Papik Field in Crete, Nebraska.
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