Dillan Botts holds the DT · Starter spot in Rice Owls’s defensive tackle room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Dillan Botts is a defensive tackle for Rice at 6'1" and 286 pounds. The Houston native transferred from Mary Hardin-Baylor after the 2024 season. In 2025, he appeared in all 13 games with 10 starts, recording 16 tackles, 0.5 sacks, and 0.5 tackles for loss across 345 snaps. He posted a 69.4 grade on analytics services among interior linemen and broke up one pass against UConn. At Mary Hardin-Baylor in 2024, Botts compiled 31 tackles, seven tackles for loss, and three sacks as the team advanced to the Division III quarterfinals.