{"id":961233,"date":"2026-08-01T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/961233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:12:18","slug":"2026-tcu-countdown-to-kickoff-28-days-until-horned-frog-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/961233\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 TCU Countdown to Kickoff: 28 Days Until Horned Frog Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">TCU football is moving closer to its 2026 season opener against North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland on Aug. 29. As the Countdown to Kickoff continues, we\u2019ll highlight a former Horned Frog whose jersey number coincided with the number of days remaining until the opener. At No. 28 is former TCU defensive back Millard Bradford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Across five seasons with the Horned Frogs, Bradford totaled 231 tackles with 16.5 tackles for loss, 15 pass breakups, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, four interceptions and one sack over 57 games. Bradford, nicknamed \u201cNook\u201d, was named an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention after both the 2022 and 2023 seasons. As a defensive back, Bradford helped TCU beat Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl and reach the national title game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bradford played in all 12 games his freshman season and made his first start for the Horned Frogs in 2020. He became a regular starter his junior season and continued to start in 2022 and 2023. After being invited to attend the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Bradford signed with the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent. He played in three games during the 2024 season, registering three tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCU football is moving closer to its 2026 season opener against North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland on Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[14385,331,7,12623],"class_list":["post-961233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-big-12-football","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-tcu-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117019721303535587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961233","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=961233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}