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Houston Lamar Looks to Reload in 2017

Photo via Joseph Nguyen, TexasHSFootball.com

There’s no such thing as a good loss when you ask a football coach. They want to win all of their games.

The point? Well, the Houston Lamar Texans lost only two games last year by a total of six points. They fell 14-9 to a really good Klein Collins team in Week 3 and then 28-27 to Atascocita in the regional round of the playoffs.

To put it into perspective, Collins lost only two games — 50-49 to Katy in double overtime and 42-31 to eventual state champ DeSoto. Atascocita’s only losses were to North Shore and the other 6A state champ, Lake Travis.

Lamar shot itself in the foot against Atascocita with touchdowns called back on penalties and a blocked extra point late in the game.

Lamar has been nothing short of impressive the last decade under coach Tom Nolen. The Texans in the last 10 years have won 105 games and lost just 20 — that’s an 84 percent win rate.

The Texans have gone three rounds or farther in the playoffs in five of the last six years, including the loss to Allen in the 2012 state championship.

Nolen’s team looks loaded heading into 2017, and the Texans hope to have a perfect regular season to set up what hopes to be a long playoff run.

Key Losses
QB Owen Holt, WR Denzel Davis

Holt directed the high-powered offense, passing for 2,357 yards and 30 touchdowns against just eight interceptions. He had a quarterback rating of 108.7 on the season.

Davis had 407 receiving yards with four touchdowns.

Key Returners
RB Ta’zhawn Henry, WR Al’vonte Woodard, CB D’shawn Jamison, DB Anthony Cook

The Texans are stacked with returners at the skill positions, with all of their stats leaders back at receiver and running back.

On offense, Henry averaged 138.8 all-purpose yards a game in 2016. He rushed for 1,452 yards with 16 touchdowns and had 155 yards receiving and 198 yards in kick returns. Henry had 235 rushing yards and a pair of touchdowns in the 28-27 loss to Atascocita in the regional playoff game. Woodard led all receivers with 42 catches for 909 yards and 15 touchdown catches.

Cook (6-1, 175) had four interceptions and Jamison (5-10, 168) had two interceptions and a fumble recovery.

Verdict
The Texans will certainly be fast and talented at the skill position, and they’ll continue to have size on the line.

Close calls last season against some very talented teams have Lamar poised to make a deep run in the playoffs. The Texans will enter the 6A playoffs as a Division I team since it has the second-highest enrollment in District 18-6A.

The question will be whether or not the Texans have the quarterback situation figured out by the time the season begins. But this is Lamar, where coach Tom Nolen doesn’t rebuild — he reloads.

 

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