Player Notes

The turmoil within the Northwestern football program has led to a standout offensive lineman from Washington committing to Oregon State.Kelso High senior Payton Stewart had committed to Northwestern but decommitted following the firing of head coach Pat Fitzgerald on July 10. The Big Ten school made the decision after an investigation into hazing within the football program.After reconsidering his ...

Oregon added a second receiver commitment to its 2025 recruiting class.Adrian Wilson, a four-star receiver out of Weiss High School in Pflugerville, Texas, flipped his commitment from TCU to the Ducks on Saturday. The 6-foot-2, 173-pound Wilson was among the players to attend UO’s Saturday Night Live camp.He committed to TCU last month and visited Fort Worth last week. Wilson also holds offers from ...

Oregon added a third quarterback to its 2024 recruiting class.Ryder Hayes, an unranked prospect out of Grandview, Texas, committed to the Ducks on Saturday as a preferred walk-on. He was among the quarterbacks to take part in UO’s Saturday Night Live camp.The 6-foot-1, 175-pound Hayes is not ranked in the 247Sports Composite. He attended Oregon’s last two spring games.Hayes joins Oregon’s 2024 recruiting ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Richard Bishop showed up at Grapevine High School in the spring of 2014 as the football team’s new offensive coordinator under head coach Randy Jackson.The new coaching staff arrived late in the spring, so they didn’t get much time to meet the eighth graders who would be freshmen the next fall, but Bishop saw a few workouts with a group of players from Cross Timbers Middle School ...

NORMAN — Everything was changing around Konnor Near.The veteran linebacker shared a house with eight teammates while at Ferris State. But after completing his fourth season with the Division II program, he watched as his best friends began the next chapter of their lives.Some guys transferred away. Others ran out of eligibility and began post-college adulthood. In total, seven of Near’s eight roommates ...

Cornerback Jontae Gilbert became the first member of Ohio State's 2025 recruiting class.Ohio State lost a commitment from its recruiting class for 2025 on Saturday night.Jontae Gilbert, a five-star safety from Atlanta, decommitted in the aftermath of visits to Georgia Tech and South Carolina in recent days.Gilbert became the first member of the Buckeyes’ 2025 class when he gave a verbal pledge last ...

There are always questions to be answered during spring camp. The presence of a post-spring transfer portal window means some of those questions naturally resolve themselves, which was the case with Nebraska’s quarterback spot.With 2022 starter Casey Thompson sitting out the spring, it appeared a position battle between him and Jeff Sims might stretch all the way into fall camp. But when Thompson entered ...

INDIANAPOLIS — It was triple-option day.Late in spring ball, Nebraska legend Eric Crouch came out to practice and worked with the offense on the scheme that helped make the Huskers so successful in decades past.When introducing him that day, coach Matt Rhule read off Crouch’s list of accolades. Among them: Heisman Trophy, Davey O’Brien Award, Walter Camp Award, Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, ...

Aprogram with six straight losing seasons has plenty to prove. So it tracks that Nebraska football is full of players who need to make their mark.Whittling down a long list of “prove-it” players down to five provides a challenge, but we’ve done it with the following criteria: A Husker has to be entering his third season on campus or, in the case of a transfer, at least their third season in college ...

Navy head football coach Brian Newberry announced today that senior defensive end Jacob Busic and senior wide receiver Jayden Umbarger will join Lirion Murtezi and Will Harbour as team captains for the 2023 season. It's just the third time in school history that Navy has had four team captains (2019 and 2021 were the other two seasons)."Some years it's hard to pick captains," said Newberry. "Some ...