Cooper King

Pronunciation Guide Honors at Rice American Conference All-Academic 2024, 2025, 2026 Saw action in all 13 games on special teams (80 snaps) and in three games on defense (Prairie View, UTSA & the Armed Forces Bowl… Credited with tackles in each appearance on defense, finishing the year with eight tackles and a shared sack…. Set a career-high with three stops vs. Prairie View (including his shared sack) and duplicated that effort vs. UTSA… Added a solo stop vs. Texas State. Saw action in six games on defense and special teams and was credited with a pair of tackles in his first collegiate action… Made his debut vs. Texas Southern and was credited with a pair of tackles on 12 snaps… Added 35 snaps on special teams. Did not see action during a redshirt freshman season. Three-year starter for coach Todd Rankin at Stratford and was named second-team TSWA All-State… District 17-6A Defensive Player of the Year as a junior as the Spartans won the bi-district championship… Credited with 109 tackles., 14 TFL (4 sacks), and four forced fumbles as a senior and 309 tackles, 24.5 TFL (10 sacks), and nine forced fumbles in his career… National Merit Commended Scholar, AP Commended Scholar, Academic All-State, National Honor Society Vice President. Full name: Cooper King … Born: September 2… Parents: Geoff and Catherine King…One brother, one sister… Father played football at SMU when the program returned in 1989... Grandfather, Rufus, was inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame after earning All-American and All-SWC honors as a guard, helping lead the Owls to the 1960 Sugar Bowl, and went on to play in the Hula Bowl and Coaches All-American All-Star games… Great uncle, Boyd King, played center alongside his brother at Rice while another great uncle, Doug Mills, played at Rice from 1962-64… Cousin Toby Mills played at Arizona State and was in NFL camps with Dallas and Atlanta after playing for Frankfort in NFL Europe... Rice major: Business (Finance)... Rice College: Will Rice Will Rice College