https://twitter.com/Coogs365/status/2085205151820763483?s=20 The heat hit first. Then Kentrell Webb smiled. Houston opened fall camp under the kind of August sun that exposes shortcuts, and the veteran defensive back met it like an old friend. "It was fun, man," Webb said. "Good to be out there in that heat." Not the word most people use for a Texas practice field in August. Webb used it twice and meant it as a preview. Houston opens the season against Oregon State at 11 a.m., when the sun will be as much a factor as anything Oregon State draws up. The Cougars aren't hiding from that. They're…
CAP-TEX Holdings Fall Camp Coverage: Kentrell Webb Brings Urgency and Swagger to Houston’s Championship Chase
In the punishing August heat, Houston’s veteran defensive back found more than another beginning. He found urgency, swagger and a defense ready to swarm.

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