Well, spring seedings are touch and go to begin with with northern lawns, and annual rye usually is...well, annual anyway.

And by annual, we mean fall through late spring with a dead and brown summer, not summer through winter.

But on the up side, at least some perennial rye should make it through. Hopefully. And the root systems should help hold the soil through summer.

If a northern grass is appropriate, in late summer, as summer weather starts to fade, reseed with a regionally-appropriate seed (I'm not sure what that's going to be for your region, but somebody will chime in) and go with that.

If a southern grass is more appropriate, right about now is the correct time to seed it, so you can probably do it now and get at least some.

Thank you for the advice

The first rule of gardening is to grow plants adapted to your local conditions. Fescue and rye grasses are not adapted to NE Texas. If you have full sunlight, here are your choices: bermuda, hybrid buffalo like UC Verde, St Augustine, or some varieties of zoysia. If you have much shade, your only choice is St Augustine. You can find bermuda seed, but the rest come as sod or plugs. If you use bermuda seed, wait until late May to even think about seeding. You can put the seed down now, but you will be severely disappointed with it until June, when the soil is finally hot enough to germinate the bermuda seed. If you seed in mid June, the seed will be germinating in 3 days. If you do it now, it will be 63 days, give or take.

Check your local nurseries to get prices for the alternatives. UC Verde was developed in California and is mostly available there, but I believe they will ship. It's an incredible grass that gets very dense, spreads quickly, and does not develop seed heads or flowers. It's too good to be true, except for the price. That's the way hybrid bermuda sod was when it was first developed, so hopefully the price will come down as more growers see the benefit.

My preference is for the Floratam variety of St Augustine. If you have patience, one piece is all you need. It will spread to cover an entire yard in a few years. Here are before and after pictures of my yard in Bandera.

Four years later it looked like this.

The only St Augustine in the top picture was growing up against the house and patio. All I did was water and fertilize the St Augustine and allowed it to spread.

Thanks for the advice