Tai Newhouse

Position:
Defensive Line
Height:
6-3
Weight:
290
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Lawrence, Kan.
High School:
Lawrence Free State HS

CAREER NOTES: A two-time letterwinner … Has played 16 career games with 12 starts … A two-time academic all-conference selection … Has a career total of 33 tackles … Has a career total of 3.5 tackles for loss of 12 yards … Has one career sack.

2024 Academic All-Conference
2023 Academic All-Conference
2022 Academic All-Conference

2024: Played in all 12 games during the redshirt sophomore season.

Started during all 12 games.
Recorded 32 tackles, 8 unassisted and 24 assisted.
Recorded 3.5 tackles for loss of 12 yards.
Recorded half a sack against Northwestern St. and East Carolina.

2023: Played in the final three games of the season.

Had one tackle, coming against East Carolina.
Earned academic all-conference accolades.

2022: Received a medical redshirt season in 2022.

Saw playing time in the season opener at Wyoming before suffering a season-ending injury in that game.
Earned academic all-conference honors.

HIGH SCHOOL

Was a three-year letterwinner and starter.
Played end and tackle on defense as well as offensive guard and tackle.
Started on offense his final two years and on defense for three seasons.
Was credited with 206 career tackles, 115 solos, 31 TFL, two forced fumbles and two pass breakups.
Helped lead his team to an 8-3 record as a senior in 2021.
Collected 92 tackles, including 58 solos, 17 TFL and five sacks his senior campaign.
Earned first-team all-Sunflower League honors as a senior.
Was named to the Kansas’ Top 33 and to the Kansas’ Coaches Association first-team all-state.
Had 57 tackles in six games as a junior.
Was a second-team all-Sunflower League selection his junior season.
Defeated two-time state wrestling champion Ethan Kremer of Mill Valley in the 285-pound state wrestling meet in 2021.
High school coach was Kevin Stewart.

PERSONAL

Favorite NFL team is the Dallas Cowboys.
Favorite NFL player is Dak Prescott.
His favorite TV show is “Game of Thrones.”
Lists “Dune: Part Two” as his favorite movie.
Favorite sports movie is “Remember the Titans.”
Began playing football at age 7.
Sushi is his favorite food.
Cousins are former NFL players Robert Newhouse, Marshall Newhouse and Pratt Lyons.
Has two older siblings.
Parents are Chamerlain and April Newhouse.
Majoring in exercise & sports science.