{"id":274209,"date":"2025-08-09T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/274209\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:03:11","slug":"countdown-to-kickoff-2025-23-days-until-horned-frog-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/274209\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Kickoff 2025: 23 days until Horned Frog Football!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frogsowar.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TCU Horned Frogs<\/a> are less than 30 days from kicking off the 2025 football season with a nonconference road matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheelblog.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina Tar Heels<\/a> and new head coach Bill Belichick. As we count down the days until kickoff, we\u2019ll highlight a former (or current) Horned Frog whose jersey number represents the number of days left until the opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov2 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1 _16w9vovb\">23 &#8211; B.J. Catalon III (Running Back &#8211; 2012-14)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A finalist for the Paul Hornung Award and an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention as a return specialist, Catalon III rushed for 1,644 yards and 16 touchdowns over three seasons with the Horned Frogs. Also an excellent pass catching back, Catalon III hauled in 48 receptions for 393 yards and two scores for the TCU offense. As a return man, Catalon III brought back two kicks for touchdowns during his time with the Horned Frogs. Catalon III declared for the 2015 NFL Draft after his junior season, but multiple concussions ultimately cut his promising career short. In April 2018, Concussion Legacy Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/concussionfoundation.org\/personal-stories\/inspiring-stories\/my-head-hurts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published this poem<\/a> written by Catalon III, who gave a glimpse into his collegiate football experience and his battle with concussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TCU Horned Frogs are less than 30 days from kicking off the 2025 football season with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[14385,331,7,12623],"class_list":{"0":"post-274209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-big-12-football","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-tcu-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114998713376132426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}