Hall of Honor

CJ Carroll HoH

CJ Carroll

  • Class
  • Induction
    2018
  • Sport(s)
    Football


Clayton (CJ) Carroll was a four-year letterwinner at defensive back for the Bobcat football team from 1997-00. Named the Southland Conference Player of the Year in 2000, his accomplishments are scattered throughout the Texas State football’s record books.
Gallery: (1-1-2019) CJ Carroll Hall of Honor

As team captain during Carroll’s senior year, he helped the Bobcats to a 7-4 record – their best record since joining the Southland Conference in 1987 – while also leading the Bobcats to a No. 25 national ranking during the season. That same year, Carroll was unanimously chosen as the Southland Conference Player of the Year and First Team All-Conference. Carroll also received the J.C. Kellam Award – given to the top male student-athlete at Texas State – and was named the team’s defensive player of the year and team MVP. He was also given national recognition while being named first team All-American by several news outlets, including the American Football Coaches Association, The Sports Network, The Associated Press, The Football Gazette, and Teamlink.com.   During his junior season Carrol was also named first team All-Southland Conference.
Carroll finished his career as the Bobcats all-time leader in sacks with 32. He remains Texas State’s sacks leader, while also holding school records for career fumble returns (3), career fumble return yards (182) and single-season fumble return yards (97).  He is fourth all-time in tackles for loss (38), third all-time in fumbles forced (10), seventh all-time in fumbles recovered (6), and is sixth in unassisted tackles (195) and quarterback hurries (23).

He is tied for first with single-game school records for fumbles forced and recovered with two each, while remaining tied for second with 7.5 tackles for loss in a single game. He is also fifth in school history with 73 unassisted tackles in a single season. He led Texas State in tackles for loss and sacks in both 1999 and 2000 and his 15 tackles for a loss in 2000 and 13 in 1999 are both top ten single season records.  He is third overall for most forced fumbles in one season with five in 1999. He is also third overall for most sacks in one season with 11, a feat he accomplished in both 1999 and 2000.  He is also sixth all-time for yards from tackles for a loss with 59, and holds two-top ten records for most quarterback hurries in a season with 12 in 2000 and 11 in 1999.

Carroll also obtained a handful of academic honors during his time as a student-athlete. One of Carroll’s most notable honors during his collegiate career was being honored as the Texas State Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2000. That same year he also received the AD Association Academic All-Star award and was named a Verizon Academic All-American. Throughout his playing career he was also consistently recognized as a Southland Conference All-Academic honoree (1998-2000).  

Carroll graduated from Texas State in 2000 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and achieved his Masters of Business Administration in Business Administration in 2001.

Today, Carroll works as the CFO for Performance Equipment Service a heavy highway contractor in San Antonio, Texas. He stays connected with Texas State through the Bobcat Club’s annual Bobcat Bonanza. He also stays active in his community by coaching youth sports at the YMCA and as a member of the San Antonio North Chamber of Commerce. Carroll resides outside San Antonio in Cibolo, Texas, with his wife Rebekah (also a Texas State graduate), and four children, Caitlyn, Cannon, Kaylie, and Ryker.
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