Main characters

• Eric Taylor
  Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)
  Eric Taylor is a fictional character in the NBC/DirecTV drama television series Friday Night Lights played by Kyle Chandler. He is introduced as the head coach of the Dillon High School football team, the Dillon Panthers...
  
  (Kyle Chandler
  Kyle Chandler
  Kyle Martin Chandler is an American film and television actor best known for his roles in the television shows Early Edition as Gary Hobson, Deputy Jackson Lamb in the film Super 8, and as Coach Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead...
  
  ) — The varsity football coach of the Dillon Panthers. The character is based on the real-life coach Gary Gaines
  Gary Gaines
  Gary Gaines is a high school football coach. Gaines was the head coach of the 1988 Permian High School football team which was the focus of the H. G. Bissinger book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream and the 2004 motion picture Friday Night Lights starring Billy Bob Thornton...
  
  . Like Gaines, Taylor is the new coach who is having a difficult time adjusting to the intensity that Dillon shows for football. Taylor is often conflicted with the advice he is given by local supporters of the team. After the team advances to the state tournament at the end of the Season 1 under his leadership, Taylor leaves Dillon to accept a higher level job at a college, also in Texas, only to return to Dillon early in Season 2. At the end of Season 3, a series of political moves result in Taylor losing his job and moving to the re-opened, and much more poorly-funded East Dillon High.
• Tami Taylor
  Tami Taylor
  Tami Taylor is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV drama Friday Night Lights; played by Connie Britton. She is the wife of the show's main character, high school football coach Eric Taylor.-Character history:...
  
  (Connie Britton
  Connie Britton
  Connie Britton is an American actress. She is best known for the roles of Nikki Faber on Spin City and on Friday Night Lights as Tami Taylor. Her most notable films are Friday Night Lights and A Nightmare on Elm Street...
  
  ) — The wife of Eric Taylor and mother of Julie Taylor. She begins the series as the guidance counselor at Dillon High School. At the start of Season 2 she gives birth to a baby girl and in Season 3 she becomes principal of the school, remaining there after her husband moves to East Dillon. After the conservative community demanded an apology from Tami regarding an incident that involved an abortion, Tami resigns as school principal and intends to start a counseling department at East Dillon.
• Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden
  Aimee Teegarden
  Aimee Richelle Teegarden is an American actress. She starred as Julie Taylor in the NBC series Friday Night Lights, Jenny Randall in the horror film Scream 4, and Nova Prescott in the Disney film Prom.-Career:...
  
  ) — The daughter of Eric and Tami Taylor, she begins the series as freshman at Dillon High School and becomes the girlfriend of Matt Saracen. During Seasons 1 and 2 she is depicted engaging in some teenage rebellion (drinking, getting a tattoo, dating around, etc.). In Season 4, despite having earned an interview at Boston College
  Boston College
  Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
  
  , Julie ultimately turns down the offer, realizing that her heart remains in Dillon. In the season finale Julie and Matt break up and go their separate ways. However, their paths cross once again in Season 5 when Julie goes to Chicago to see Matt after making some bad decisions. During her visit, they kiss and Matt gives Julie the belief that she should stop running from what she's done wrong. She again leaves and their relationship remain ambiguous. However Matt, spurred on by her visit in Chicago, arrives in Dillon and proposes, and Julie says yes. Eight months later, they are living happily in Chicago at the conclusion of the series whether or not they are married by this point is unknown.
• Matt Saracen
  Matt Saracen
  Matthew "Matt" Saracen is a fictional character in the NBC/DirecTV television drama series Friday Night Lights portrayed by the actor Zach Gilford...
  
  #7 (Zach Gilford
  Zach Gilford
  Zach Gilford is an American actor best known for his role as Matt Saracen on the NBC television drama series Friday Night Lights. Gilford starred alongside Terrell Owens in the 2008 NBA Celebrity All-Star game....
  
  ) — The shy and stammering sophomore who is quarterback
  Quarterback
  Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
  
  /wide receiver
  Wide receiver
  A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...
  
   of the Dillon Panthers who becomes the boyfriend of Julie Taylor. He has issues with abandonment, once summing it up as that he was left by Coach Taylor for a better team, left by Julie Taylor for a better guy, left by his father for a war. Beyond this, his mother is also known to have left him around age ten. Saracen is based on Mike Winchell. Saracen graduates at the end of Season 3 but remains in the cast. In Season 4, after the death of his father, Saracen moves to Chicago in order to pursue a career in art.
• Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons
  Jesse Plemons
  Jesse Plemons is an American film and television actor best known for playing Landry Clarke on NBC's Friday Night Lights.-Career:...
  
  ) - A somewhat nerdy and geek-worthy freshman. Best friend of Panthers quarterback Matt Saracen, but wasn't on the football team in Season 1. Joined the team to impress his father in Season 2. He has his own band and is in love with Tyra Collette, who he lost his virginity to. Landry is based on Brian Chavez. Like Chavez, Landry is best friends with the quarterback. Both characters have very good grades and await a life outside of Dillon /Odessa. In Season 4, having moved to East Dillon High, Landry makes the team as a kicker and makes the season-ending game-winning field goal against the Panthers. In Season 5, Landry goes off to college at Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
   in Houston.
• Tim Riggins
  Tim Riggins
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  #33 (Taylor Kitsch
  Taylor Kitsch
  -Early life and modeling career:Kitsch was born in Kelowna, British Columbia. He has two older brothers and two younger half sisters. Originally set to become a professional hockey player, he played for the Langley Hornets in the Canadian BCHL before a bad knee injury ended his career...
  
  ) — The fullback
  Fullback (American football)
  A fullback is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback...
  
  /running back
  Running back
  A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...
  
   of the Dillon Panthers. He is the troubled best friend to Jason Street. He is the ex-boyfriend of Tyra Collette and now dates Lyla Garrity, with whom he has an off and on relationship. Of course, both were stops in quite a long line of girls, as Riggins is known as a bit of a womanizer. He solves many of his problems through promiscuous sex and heavy drinking. Tim is based on Don Billingsley from the film. Both Tim and Don have rocky relationships with their fathers. Both are very good players and heavy partiers. In the Season 4 finale, Tim turns himself in to the sheriff after being discovered that he was operating a chop shop with his brother, Billy.
• Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki
  Adrianne Palicki
  Adrianne Palicki is an American actress best known for her role as Tyra Collette on the NBC television series Friday Night Lights.-Early life:...
  
  ) — Former Dillon High popular girl. Her dating history includes Tim Riggins (Season 1, Season 5), Landry (Season 2), and a cowboy named Cash (Season 3). She is seen developing throughout the show and hoping to rise above the stereotype of the blonde, oversexed female in Dillon. She was admitted into University of Texas in Austin after graduating from Dillon High.
• Jason Street
  Jason Street
  Jason Mitchell Street is a fictional character in the NBC/DirecTV television drama Friday Night Lights, portrayed by Scott Porter...
  
  (Scott Porter
  Scott Porter
  Matthew Scott Porter , better known as Scott Porter, is an American actor and occasional singer known for his role as Jason Street in the NBC television drama Friday Night Lights. His character was injured during a football game in the pilot episode and became a paraplegic...
  
  ) — The former star quarterback of the Dillon panthers and former fiancee of Lyla Garrity. Street was paralyzed from the chest down
  Quadriplegia
  Tetraplegia, also known as quadriplegia, is paralysis caused by illness or injury to a human that results in the partial or total loss of use of all their limbs and torso; paraplegia is similar but does not affect the arms...
  
   during the first game of his senior year and has developed an interest in quad rugby
  Wheelchair rugby
  Wheelchair rugby, , is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is currently practiced in over twenty countries around the world and is a Paralympic sport....
  
  . He was briefly an assistant coach of the Dillon Panthers. Now resides in Northern New Jersey
  New Jersey
  New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
  
   with his wife Erin and their son Noah. (Recapped in Season 5)Pilot:#6
• Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly
  Minka Kelly
  Minka Dumont Kelly is an American actress. She starred in the NBC series Friday Night Lights as Lyla Garrity from 2006 to 2009 and has also had roles in The Roommate and the reboot series Charlie's Angels.-Early life:Kelly was born in Los Angeles...
  
  ) — Former fiancée of Jason Street and former Panthers cheerleader. She is now dating Tim Riggins, off and on. The drama of her story arc included a slip in judgment when Jason was initially paralyzed, which ended with her hooking up with Riggins. He eventually had feelings for her, and the two spent time going back and forth about their decision to be with one another. She has gone through a religious phase, as well, in season 2.
• Brian "Smash" Williams
  Smash Williams
  Brian "Smash" Williams is a fictional character in the NBC/DirecTV drama television series Friday Night Lights portrayed by actor Gaius Charles. He is the starting running back of the Dillon High School Panthers. Considered the most talented player on the roster after quarterback Jason Street,...
  
  (Gaius Charles
  Gaius Charles
  Gaius Charles is an American stage, television and film actor best known for playing Brian "Smash" Williams on NBC's Friday Night Lights.-Early life:...
  
  ) — Former running back
  Running back
  A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...
  
   of the Dillon Panthers. Now plays for Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
  
   in College Station, Texas
  College Station, Texas
  College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley. The city is located within the most populated region of Texas, near three of the 10 largest cities in the United States - Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio...
  
  . The character is based on Boobie Miles (played by Derek Luke
  Derek Luke
  Derek Luke is an American actor. He won the Independent Spirit Award for his big-screen debut performance in the 2002 film Antwone Fisher, directed and produced by Denzel Washington.-Early life:...
  
   in the film). Smash is suspended from the team once for fighting in a movie theater and in the first season he is benched by coach Taylor for using steroids. He is injured between the second and third season. Shirt number 20
• Luke Cafferty (Matt Lauria
  Matt Lauria
  Matthew "Matt" Lauria is an American actor, musician and director. He made his television debut on the NBC comedy 30 Rock in 2007. He is best known for his roles as Luke Cafferty on Friday Night Lights and Caleb Evers on The Chicago Code.-Early life and career:Lauria was born in Alexandria,...
  
  ) - Cafferty is new character in Season 4. Previously a standout on [West] Dillon’s JV team, he had to transfer to East Dillon when it is discovered that he actually lives in the East Dillon district but has been lying about his address so he can continue to play for West Dillon. His parents, unlike most of the other parents, are not supportive of his involvement in football. In the Season 4 finale, Luke is offered a football scholarship at a more prestigious high school, St. Pat's, but it is still unknown whether or not he intends to leave East Dillon. It is revealed in Season 5 that he stayed at East Dillon. Luke eventually wins the heart of Becky Sproles during his Senior year where he is conflicted about whether or not to go to a low league College and play Football. Luke and his team-mates pull off a shock when they reach the State final and win. Eight months after the State final it is shown that Luke has enlisted and is seen at the bus garage giving Becky his State ring before boarding the bus and leaving Dillon.
• Vince Howard (Michael B. Jordan
  Michael B. Jordan
  Michael Bakari Jordan is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage drug dealer Wallace on the HBO drama television series The Wire, for his role as Reggie Montgomery in All My Children, as quarterback Vince Howard on the NBC television series Friday Night Lights, and since...
  
  )- A new character beginning in Season 4, Howard is a talented athlete but had never played football before being given the choice of joining the new East Dillon football team or going to juvenile detention. After sending his mother to drug rehab, Vince becomes East Dillon's new quarterback and leads them to a win over the Panthers in the Season 4 finale. Vince is overwhelmed by all the attention he is receiving from colleges and becomes arrogant and selfish in Season 5. This behaviour sees Coach bench him but once he realises the error of his ways he matures and leads the Lions to State. Vince has problems with his recently released father this season. Eight months later, Vince is shown to be the quarterback for the Dillon Panthers.
• Jess Merriweather (Jurnee Smollett
  Jurnee Smollett
  Jurnee Diana Smollett-Bell is an American actress. She is best known for the role of Jess Merriweather on the critically acclaimed television series Friday Night Lights...
  
  )- A character that joins the series in Season 4, Merriweather is an East Dillon student whose father was a former state-championship winning quarterback of the East Dillon Lions but came to resent the sport and the team. Merriweather carries the responsibility for working in her family's restaurant and caring for her three younger brothers. By the end of Season 4, after a brief relationship with Landry, Jess becomes Vince's girlfriend. In Season 5, Jess decides to become a coach and starts shadowing Coach Taylor. Her relationship with Vince reaches a rocky patch when he starts acting selfishly. They briefly break up, but eventually fix things by the end of the season getting back together at the end of episode 12 ,and then declaring their love for each other before the State game. Jess later informs Coach that she is moving to Dallas because her father's fast-food franchise took off; Coach tells her he knows a coach in Dallas and will recommend her. Eight months later, she is seen shadowing that coach in Dallas, her dream still alive.
• Becky Sproles (Madison Burge
  Madison Burge
  Madison Burge is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the character Becky Sproles on the television series Friday Night Lights.-Life and career:...
  
  ) - an East Dillon student/beauty-queen hopeful. Becky undergoes an abortion late in Season 4 after a one-night stand with Luke Cafferty, and leans on Tim Riggins for support. Becky's decision to terminate the pregnancy lands Tami Taylor in hot water, eventually costing her her job. In Season 5 Becky and Luke eventually get back together and she starts living with Billy and Mindy. Eight months after the State game she is seen kissing Luke goodbye at the bus garage as he heads off to join the army.
• Hastings Ruckle#88 (Grey Damon
  Grey Damon
  Grey Damon is an American actor. Grey was born on September 24, 1987 and currently resides in Los Angeles.- Career :Damon is known for starring in the hit television shows True Blood, Friday Night Lights and most recently, The Nine Lives of Chloe King as Brian. He also had roles in 90210 and ABC's...
  
  ) - a new East Dillon football player, former basketball player.

Recurring characters

• Buddy Garrity (Brad Leland
  Brad Leland
  Brad Leland is an American actor who has appeared in 20 feature films, 25 television shows, and numerous theater performances. He played the character Buddy Garrity in the television show Friday Night Lights.-Early life:...
  
  ) - Owner of a popular Chevrolet
  Chevrolet
  Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...
  
   dealership in town, father of Lyla Garrity, and an influential Dillon High booster
  Boosterism
  Boosterism is the act of "boosting," or promoting, one's town, city, or organization, with the goal of improving public perception of it. Boosting can be as simple as "talking up" the entity at a party or as elaborate as establishing a visitors' bureau. It is somewhat associated with American small...
  
  . He ends up having an affair with Angela Collette, Tyra's mom, which causes stress with his family and results in a divorce. Buddy is based on John Aubrey, a character Leland himself played in the film. Having been ousted from the Panthers booster club by JD McCoy's father, Garrity denounces his allegiance to the Panthers and joins the Lions instead, becoming instrumental in providing sponsors, including a weekly radio show at a local station.
• Billy Riggins (Derek Phillips) — Older brother to Tim Riggins, acts as his guardian. Could have had a potential scholarship for golf, but gave it up to take care of Tim. Married Mindy Colette at the end of season 3. In Season 4, after increasing pressure from a pregnant Mindy and himself to provide for his family, he opens a chop shop to make ends meet.
• Lorraine “Grandma” Saracen (Louanne Stephens) — Grandmother to Matt Saracen, she often requires special care from Matt. She suffers from dementia
  Dementia
  Dementia is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging...
  
  . She acts as a motherly figure in Matt's life since his father is never around.
• Shelby Saracen (Kim Dickens
  Kim Dickens
  Kimberly Jan "Kim" Dickens is an American actress and model.-Early life:Dickens was born in Huntsville, Alabama, graduated from that city's Lee High School, and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in communication...
  
  ) — Mother of Matt Saracen, she was largely absent throughout Matt's life, until his struggles with his grandmother forced him to seek her out, so that she could sign papers to legally emancipate him. She ends up staying in Dillon with Matt and his grandmother, though not at first without considerable friction with his grandmother.
• Mindy Collette (Stacey Oristano) - Sister of Tyra Collette and Billy Riggin's wife. Mindy works as a stripper at a local roadhouse, The Landing Strip. She and Billy have a son, Stevie.
• Corrina “Mama” Williams (Liz Mikel
  Liz Mikel
  Elizabeth Juliene "Liz" Mikel is an American actress and jazz vocalist from Dallas, Texas. She is best known for her role as Corinna "Mama" Williams, mother of star running back Brian "Smash" Williams, on the NBC television series Friday Night Lights.-Career:Mikel has been performing on stage...
  
  ) — Mother to “Smash” Williams. She found the steroids in his room and went to Coach Taylor about it, briefly putting his career in doubt. Works in town as a nurse, and was the one to tell Tami Taylor she was pregnant at the end of season 1.
• Mac MacGill (Blue Deckert) — Offensive coordinator for the Dillon Panthers. Caused the black players on the team to walk off the team in the week leading up to a playoff game in season 1 after making racist comments. Later defended Smash after the rival teams police tried to arrest him for starting a brawl in the game. In season 3, he suffers a heart attack and takes a leave of absence from coaching, and is replaced by future coach Wade Aikman. In season 4, Coach Taylor offered him a job at East Dillon, but turned him down. In season 5, MacGill has succeeded Aikman as the head coach of the Dillon Panthers.
• Chad Clarke (Glenn Morshower
  Glenn Morshower
  Glenn Grove Morshower is an American actor best known for playing Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce on the Fox action thriller drama series 24...
  
  ) - Father of Landry Clarke, and police officer for the Dillon Police Department.
• Herc (Kevin Rankin
  Kevin Rankin (actor)
  Kevin Rankin is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Tyler Briggs on the NBC show Trauma.-Filmography:* "Big Love" .... Verlan Walker* "The Mentalist" .... Danny Ruskin* "Justified" .... Devil* "Trauma" .... Tyler Briggs...
  
  ) — Athlete with the same injury as Jason Street, member of the national quad rugby team who has taken Street under his wing.
• Jackie Miller (Brooke Langton
  Brooke Langton
  Brooke Langton is an American actress. She is best known for the role of Samantha Reilly on the original Melrose Place.-Personal life:...
  
  ) - Single mother to Bo Miller with a predilection for younger men.
• Waverly Grady (Aasha Davis
  Aasha Davis
  Aasha Davis, is an American actress best known for her roles as Waverly Grady on Friday Night Lights and Chelsea Lewis on South of Nowhere. She has also appeared on Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, House, ER, Castle and The Shield.-Personal life:...
  
  ) — One-time girlfriend to “Smash” Williams. Diagnosed with Bipolar disorder that caused a strain in their relationship.
• Ray “Voodoo” Tatum (Aldis Hodge
  Aldis Hodge
  Aldis Hodge is an American actor currently starring as Alec Hardison on the TNT series Leverage.-Life and career:Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge was born in Onslow County, North Carolina on September 20, 1986. While both of his parents served in the U.S...
  
  ) — Louisiana resident (displaced by Hurricane Katrina) and Panther quarterback for two weeks after being brought to town by Buddy Garrity to replace Jason Street. The Dillon Panthers meet him again in the State Final.
• Angela Collette (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
  Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
  Dana Wheeler-Nicholson is an American actress.Sometimes credited as Dana Wheeler Nicholson, she has appeared in numerous movies, but is probably best known for her role in Fletch as Gail Stanwyk and in Tombstone as Mattie Blaylock Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (born New York City, New York, October 9,...
  
  ) — Mother of Tyra Collette and former mistress to Buddy Garrity. She ends up having an affair with Buddy ultimately destroying his family life.
• Tony Dolia (Charon R. Arnold) — Panther Player #1, never shown outside of uniform but often highlighted during game play. He has been instrumental in several of the Panther’s on-field victories. Such as catching the winning TD pass from Saracen in the Pilot
  Television pilot
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  . He also blocked a punt
  Punt (football)
  In some codes of football, a punt is a play in which a player drops the ball and kicks it before it touches the ground. A punt is in contrast to a drop kick, in which the ball touches the ground before being kicked....
  
   in Nevermind
  Nevermind
  Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records...
  
   to set up the winning touchdown drive led by Panther backup quarterback. He is showed in some deleted scenes and is interviewed in Eyes Wide Open
  Eyes Wide Open
  Eyes Wide Open is an exhibit created by the American Friends Service Committee observing the American soldiers and marines that have died in the Iraq War. It contains a pair of combat boots to represent every American soldier and marine that has died in the war, as well as shoes representing Iraqi...
  
   deleted scene.
• J.D. McCoy (Jeremy Sumpter
  Jeremy Sumpter
  Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter is an American actor. His prominent roles include the title role in the 2003 live action film Peter Pan and the recurring role of J. D. McCoy in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights...
  
  ) — A very talented quarterback who joins the varsity team as a freshman and eventually replaces Matt Saracen as the starter, but he has trouble relating to his older teammates who don't share his straight-laced habits. He also faces intense pressure from his father to excel as a football player; the character may have been inspired by Todd Marinovich
  Todd Marinovich
  Todd Marvin Marinovich is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. He played for the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League, and also in the Canadian Football League and Arena Football League...
  
  . In the fifth season it is revealed during the East Dillon/Dillon game that he is no longer the starting QB of the Panthers, even though at this point, he would be a Junior.
• Henry Saracen (Brent Smiga)- The father of Matt Saracen who was divorced from Matt's mother when Matt was young. He enlisted in the US Army and served in Iraq. He served for twenty years, missing much of Matt's life. The character is killed off by an IED in Iraq at the end of Episode 4, of Season 4, "A Sort of Homecoming;" Episode 5, "The Son" deals with Matt's reaction to this father's death. Matt's feelings of anger toward his father are revealed and the best thing he can say at his father's funeral is that he served his country well.
• Buddy Garrity Jr.(Jeff Rosick and Joey Truty)- son of Buddy Garrity and brother to Lyla Garrity, Buddy starts off as just a little kid, but after moving to California starts to act out and disrespect authority causing him to move back to Texas with Buddy. He eventually joins the East Dillon Lions to get straightened out.
• Dallas Tinker (LaMarcus Tinker
  LaMarcus Tinker
  LaMarcus Tinker is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage football star Dallas Tinker on the NBC and Direct TV television drama Friday Night Lights, and as Kevin on the ABC comedy Cougar Town...
  
  ) - An East Dillon Lion known to his teammates by his last name, Tinker is part of a core group of players including Vince Howard, Luke Cafferty, Hastings Ruckle and Buddy Garrity, Jr. Tinker once helped Luke mend a fence on his parents' farm when no one else showed up; in Season 5, he trades "his" rally girl, Becky, to Luke in exchange for Luke's prize pig.
• Regina Howard (Angela Rawna) - Vince Howard's mother, a former drug addict. After her son gets her into rehab, she is determined to turn her life around.
• Matt Riggins (Teddy Tala)- Uncredited East Dillon Lions Running Back and Wide Receiver who is cousin to Billy Riggins and Tim Riggins
  Tim Riggins
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External sources

• Fright Night Lights Beyond the Scenes: Character Profiles from NBC official site