Offensive lineman Eric Tausch started 25 games over his last two seasons with TCU.
The TCU Horned Frogs are less than 100 days from kicking off the 2025 football season with a nonconference road matchup against the North Carolina Tar Heels and new head coach Bill Belichick. As we count down the days until kickoff, we’ll highlight a former (or current) Horned Frog whose jersey number represents the number of days left until the opener.
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73 – Eric Tausch (Offensive Lineman – 2009-13)
Tausch, whose father Terry was an All-American at Texas and played eight professional seasons in the NFL, proved to be a valuable starting lineman for the Horned Frogs during his redshirt senior season in 2013, when he played 12 games at three different positions. An interior lineman who spent time at center, left guard and right guard, Tausch appeared in 39 games over his five-year stint at TCU and started 25 games over the 2012 and 2013 seasons. Tausch was named an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention as a redshirt junior in 2012, when he started all 13 games (12 at left guard). Tausch hails from Plano, Texas and played his high school football at Jesuit College Prep before signing with the Horned Frogs.