9 players the Red Raiders need a little extra from

Get your A-J Media Digital Subscription now!For Texas Tech to make a big move up from last year’s losing record, they need reliable contributions from a wide variety of players.

Here are nine whose circumstances are the most interesting:

\u25a0 S Keenon Ward: No one should be more excited to play for new defensive coordinator David Gibbs. The last two years at Houston, Gibbs’ safeties, Adrian McDonald and Trevon Stewart, amassed an incredible 28 takeaways between them: 10 interceptions and seven fumble recoveries two years ago and eight interceptions and three fumble recoveries last year.

Tech’s team had 34 in the same time frame.

McDonald and Stewart both are about Ward’s size, coincidentally.

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