Prior to A&M-Commerce: Spent the last two years at Texas Christian University...a four-year letterwinner at Kennedale High School on the football...named all-state and all-area as a senior...picked up all-district honors as a junior and senior...named team’s reicipient of Most Inspirational Award as a senior...recorded 70 tackles during his junior year...cousins Chad and Chance McCarty played at TCU.

Personal: Born January 6, 1989...son of Ed Thomas and Verlinda McCarty...a communications major.