FORT WORTH, Texas -- One of TCU’s greatest headaches of 2015 is looking like a serious silver lining for 2016.
The injuries that threatened to wreck the Horned Frogs' defense last season have made that unit far stronger heading into this season. A bad streak of setbacks started right around this time one year ago. Head coach Gary Patterson wouldn’t call those problems a blessing in disguise now that he has the benefit of hindsight, but he does know his team is better today because of them.
Defensive end James McFarland, the team leader in sacks in 2014, took one unlucky step on a sprinkler head in fall camp last August and had to be shut down for the season.