SMU Mustangs Football named its captains for the 2025 season with six players getting the honor, the school announced Thursday. Rhett Lashlee’s team opens the season Aug. 30 vs. East Texas A&M.
All six captains are from Texas with three of the six hailing from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Quarterback Kevin Jenningswho ranked third in the race for Preseason ACC Player of the Year, was named a captain. He passed for 3,245 yards, 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions last season. He also rushed for 354 yards and five touchdowns.
SMU offensive linemen Logan Parr and PJ Williams joined Jennings as the captains from the offensive side. Last season while anchoring left guard, Parr was named a Third Team All-ACC performer. He played in 12 games for SMU after recovering from offseason shoulder surgery. This year, he’s fully healthy.
Expectations are also high for Williams, a former Texas A&M transfer who since arriving has matured and grown into one of the top offensive tackles in the country. Williams started in all 14 games, 11 coming at right tackle last season.
Linebacker Alexander Kilgore is ready to take on his role as the leader in the middle of the defense as a captain. Last season, he totaled 56 tackles (19 solo), three tackles for loss, a sack and three pass breakups. He’s waited his turn to start and this offseason has taken over as one of the team’s most reliable players.
Safeties Isaiah Nwokobiawho is getting some All-American nods, and Ahmaad Moseswere also named captains at SMU. Both are two of the best returning safeties in all of college football.
Nwokobia secured a place on the Preseason All-ACC Team by garnering 86 votes from the credentialed media members who attended the 2025 ACC Football Kickoff. Last season, he notched 100 tackles over 14 games with four tackles for loss, three interceptions and three pass breakups en route to being named First Team All-ACC and Phil Steele All-America Honorable Mention.
Moses played in all 14 games, moving around the safety spots, and performing at a high-level. Defensive coordinator Scott Symons called him one of the best post safeties in the country this week. Moses finished with 73 tackles (38 solo) last season. He had six TFLs, most by a defensive back on the team, tied for the team lead with three interceptions and had six pass breakups. One of his two interceptions against TCU went for a touchdown last season.
For SMU’s defenders that made the captains team, it’s their time to take over for plenty of experienced leaders that left the program following the 2024 season.
“We are very talented. That talent has come with, in some areas, some inexperience, right? So now what we gotta do is take the experienced guys and get them in a position where they’re leaders and they’re vocal. And I think we have that, right?,” passing game coordinator Rickey Hunley said this summer. “You have Isaiah Nwokobia, you have Ahmaad Moses, Alexander Kilgore, Cam Robertson, right? Those guys are gonna set the tone, okay? Now this is taking the inexperience of the guys who have the high-talent ceiling and making sure that they get valuable reps.”
