FORT WORTH -- Twelve former TCU football student-athletes are headed to the NFL playoffs with their respective teams.

Defensive end Jerry Hughes, a two-time consensus All-American (2008-09) and the 2009 Lott IMPACT Trophy and Ted Hendricks Award winner, is a member of the Houston Texans. In his 14th NFL season, Hughes is the longest tenured TCU player among the 27 in the league.

Twenty-three TCU players have won Super Bowl championship rings, including 12 different in the last 17 seasons. 

Offensive linemen Lucas Niang (Kansas City Chiefs), Joe Noteboom (Los Angeles Rams) and Halapoulivaati Vaitai (Detroit Lions) are active players who have already won a Super Bowl. Vaitai's ring came with the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII.

TCU has had at least one player in the Super Bowl in nine of the last 10 seasons.

TCU Players in the 2024 NFL Playoffs
Steve Avila, OL - Los Angeles Rams
Dylan Horton^, DE - Houston Texans
Jerry Hughes, DE - Houston Texans
Lucas Niang, OT - Kansas City Chiefs
Joe Noteboom, OL - Los Angeles Rams
Matt Pryor, OL - San Francisco 49ers
Tre Tomlinson, DB - Los Angeles Rams
KaVontae Turpin, WR - Dallas Cowboys
Halapoulivaati Vaitai, OL - Detroit Lions
Jason Verrett*, DB - San Francisco 49ers
Ar'Darius Washington#, S - Baltimore Ravens 
Dee Winters, LB - San Francisco 49ers

^Reserve/Non-Football Illness
*Practice Squad
#Reserve/Designated to Return