A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN | Tatum’s Trey Fite transfers, will spend final collegiate season at UTSA
Trey Fite will soon be spending some quality time on the River Walk, and – if things go like coach Jeff Traylor plans – terrorizing opposing backfields this fall.
Fite, who did his undergraduate work at the University of Louisiana, graduated this past summer and played defensive end for the Ragin’ Cajuns, has decided he’ll finish his college football career at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
The standout from Tatum joins coach Jeff Traylor at UTSA; Traylor, of course, is the former longtime Gilmer High School head coach, who had so much success there that GISD named its stadium after him.
Fite had other offers, including one from Arizona State, where he would’ve joined his brother, C.J., to suit up for the Sun Devils’ defense. But he instead chose the Roadrunners, who have been an up-and-coming program under Traylor’s guidance.
Fite was successful as an edge rusher for the Cajuns, who went 6-7 last season, including a close loss at James Madison (who made the College Football Playoff), a win over Marshall, and a win over Texas State as a part of a four-game winning streak to end the regular season. Louisiana lost to Delaware, 20-13, in the 68 Ventures Bowl at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, back on Dec. 17.
Traylor’s Roadrunners are getting a good one. The 6-foot-4, 261-pound Fite should add speed off the edge and create real problems for UTSA opponents. It appears Fite will continue to wear No. 31, the number he wore at Louisiana.
Trey is the son of educators Drenon and Tamara Fite, who both play large roles at the excellent Tatum Independent School District; Tamara is the principal of Tatum Middle School, and Drenon, the assistant superintendent of TISD.
As mentioned, his brother is Arizona State defensive lineman C.J. Fite, who recently announced he’d forego entering the NFL Draft for now and instead return to the Sun Devils for another season. Arizona State is a year removed from their own trip to the College Football Playoff, having won the Big 12 Conference championship in 2024. Trey’s sister, Madison Fite, is the head volleyball coach at Gladewater High School.
Now, about UTSA football…
The Roadrunners play in the American Conference, and play their home games at San Antonio’s Alamodome. Traylor has been the head coach there for six seasons, and has a 53-26 record, winning roughly 67 percent of his games, including back-to-back conference championships in 2021 and 2022.
UTSA only began playing football in 2011.
Larry Coker, the coach who won national championships leading Miami in the early 2000s, was the program’s first head coach, followed by Frank Wilson, and now Traylor, who won his first three games there, and led UTSA to a 7-4 record in his first regular season. The next year, in 2021, the Roadrunners went 11-1, the most successful season to date for UTSA football.
Under coach Traylor, the Roadrunners have made a bowl game in every single season, and have won the last three: a win over Marshall in the Frisco Bowl to cap the 2023 season; a win over Coastal Carolina in the Myrtle Beach Bowl at the end of the ’24 season; and most recently, a 57-20 win over Florida International in the First Responder Bowl to end the 2025 season.
Former defensive lineman Marcus Davenport and Spencer Burford, the standout offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers, are arguably the highest-profiled players of note in UTSA history.
The ‘Runners went 7-6 in 2025, and 4-4 in conference play. They’ll open the 2026 season at home on Saturday, Sept. 5 against Texas-Rio Grande Valley, and then visit rival Texas State in San Marcos the following week.
Also this coming season, UTSA plays at Texas (Sept. 19), at Rice and at Tulane, and hosts North Texas.
