2025 Football Roster
Roster
Cooper Lanz
- Position:
- Defensive Line
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 286
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Denton, Texas
- High School:
- Guyer HS
2024 (Redshirt Junior): Played in 10 games with two starts … Battled injuries, missing games vs. Utah, Air Force and Houston … Had 15 tackles, including a sack, two QB hurries and one PBU … Had three stops in the opener vs. Tarleton … Had a tackle at Utah and vs. BYU … Made three stops at ISU … Had two tackles at Texas Tech, also breaking up a pass … Finished with a stop vs. OSU … Had three tackles and a sack and QB hurry vs. TCU … Made a tackle vs. WVU … Had a QB hurry in the Texas Bowl vs. LSU despite playing through illness.
2023 (Redshirt Sophomore): Started all 11 games he played at defensive tackle … Ranked fifth on the team with 34 tackles … Had three tackles for a loss, with one sack … Forced two fumbles and blocked a kick … Had two tackles in the season opener vs. Texas State … Had six stops vs. No. 12/12 Utah … Had four tackles and half a stop for a loss vs. No. 3/6 Texas … Had four tackles, 1.5 for a loss and one sack, blocking a kick in the comeback win at UCF … Had three tackles vs. Texas Tech and two at Cincinnati … Had three tackles and forced a fumble vs. Iowa State … Had three tackles at No. 25 Kansas State … Had a TFL and forced a fumble at TCU, while facing off with his older brother, TCU’s starting center John Lanz … Had four tackles vs. West Virginia.
2022 (Redshirt Freshman): Named First-Team Academic All-Big 12 … Played in 12 games off the bench, only missing the contest at No. 21 BYU … Had two tackles in win over UAlbany and Texas State, adding one at Iowa State … Finished the year with five tackles.
2021 (Freshman): Redshirted ... Did not appear in any games.
High School: Prepped at Denton Guyer High School for coach Rodney Webb … helped team to 8-2 record in 2020 … 88 tackles and 15.0 TFL as a senior … Tallied 8.0 sacks with 15 QB hurries and one forced fumble … Named to 5-6A All-District First Team ... Named TSWA Class 6A First Team All-State as a defensive end ... Was the 2020 TSWA Class 6A Defensive Player of the Year ... Also named a Dallas Morning News First Team defensive lineman ... Helped team to Class 6A state finals as a junior … 80 tackles, 24.0 TFL and 7.0 sacks in 2019 … No. 145 in Texas according to 247 Sports … Three-star prospect … ESPN also rated as a three-star recruit … Dave Campbell’s Texas Football No. 114 in Texas … No. 84 on Dallas Morning-News Top 100 for Class of 2021 … Also played baseball.
Personal: Son of John and Nancy Lanz … brother John was starting center at TCU and the two went head to head in the 2023 meeting in Fort Worth… pre-business major.
