Skip To Main Content
Skip To Scoreboard

2022 Football Roster

Profile

  • CB
    Position
  • Fifth Year
    Class
  • DeSoto, Texas
    Hometown
  • 6'0
    Height
  • 182
    Weight
  • DeSoto HS
    High School
BJ Hanspard 2019
#25
Byron Hanspard Jr.
CB
Position
Fifth Year
Class
DeSoto, Texas
Hometown

Season Stats

There are no statistics for this selected season available for this player.
There are no statistics for this selected season available for this player.

Career Stats

Career Statistics

Summary

Biography

CAREER HONORS
• 2022 Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
• Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (2x)
• 2021 Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
• 2020 Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
• 2019 Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
• 2018 Big 12 Academic All-Rookie 
 
2022 (Senior)
Named Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 … Played in 11 of 13 games as a key member of the special teams unit, seeing time on kickoff coverage … Played in each game with the exception of the contests at No. 21 BYU and at Iowa State. 

2021 (Redshirt Junior)
Academic All-Big 12 Second Team … Played in 13 of 14 games in 2021, primarily on special teams … Tallied his only tackle of the season against Texas (10/30) … Saw action but did not record a stat at Texas State (9/4) ... Did not play vs. Texas Southern (9/11) … Played but did not record a stat at Kansas (9/18), vs. Iowa State (9/25), at Oklahoma State (10/2), vs. West Virginia (10/9), vs. BYU (10/16), at TCU (11/6), vs. Oklahoma (11/13), at Kansas State (11/20), vs. Texas Tech (11/27), vs. Oklahoma State (12/4) and vs. Ole Miss (1/1).

2020 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Played in four games on the 2020, primarily on special teams ... Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 … Collected a career high three solo tackles in the win over Kansas (9/26) ... Saw time against WVU (10/3), did not record a stat ... Saw action against Texas (10/24), did not record a stat ... Saw action against TCU (10/31), did not record a stat ... Did not play the final five games due to injury.

2019 (Redshirt Freshman)
2019 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team ... Appeared in seven games on the season, collecting two tackles and 1.0 TFL ... Tallied 1 TFL at Kansas (11/30) ... Also had 1 tackle vs. SFA (8/31) ... Made appearances at Oklahoma State (10/19), at TCU (11/9), vs. Texas (11/23), vs. Oklahoma (12/7) and vs. Georgia (1/1). 

2018 (Freshman)
Appeared in three games ... Collected his first collegiate tackle vs. Texas Tech (11/24) ... Made his collegiate debut vs. Kansas State (10/6) ... Also made an appearance at Texas (10/13)  ... Big 12 Academic All-Rookie selection.

High School
Played at DeSoto High School for coach Todd Peterman ... Under Armour All-America Game selection ... Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Texas Top 300 ... Landry Award Finalist ... 42 tackles, 3.0 TFL and one interception as a senior ... Also had 36 receptions for 493 yards and two touchdowns ... Helped team to 10-2 record in 2017 ... Tallied 40 tackles and three picks during junior season ... Rated four stars by 247 Sports ... No. 289 nationally ... No. 33 in Texas ... No. 12 athlete in the country ... Four-star rating by ESPN ... No. 100 in ESPN 300 ... No. 13 in Texas ... No. 13 corner nationally ... Three-star corner according to Rivals ... No. 72 in Texas ...  Picked Baylor over Arkansas, Texas Tech, Colorado and Houston.

Personal
Son of Byron, Sr. and Yolanda Hanspard ... father, Byron Sr., was unanimous All-American and the Doak Walker award winner in 1996 at Texas Tech ... major is kinesiology.