Player Notes

AUGUST 08, 2023 12:18 PMWith many of the stars from the 2022 season gone, TCU has leaned on new faces to fill key roles, especially on the offensive and defensive lines.One of those players is Caleb Fox. A key reserve at defensive end, Fox had the third most quarterback hurries on the team last year and played in every game.Fox has taken most of the first team reps at defensive end and could be the ...

SENIOR STAFF WRITERAugust 7, 2023 at 2:31 PMSyracuse tight end Oronde Gadsden II has been named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list, one of 49 college players to make the cut. Though Gadsden is listed as a tight end, the award honors the top receiver in college football regardless of their position.After eight games last season, Gadsden, who totaled 671 receiving yards and six touchdowns during that ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — It’s rare when two teammates go down with the same injury in the same half of a game, but that’s exactly what happened to Stefon Thompson and Chris Elmore last year.Both suffered season-ending ACL tears in the first half of Syracuse football’s season opener against Louisville. Both were expected to be major contributors to the Orange.For Elmore, it was just another in a string of injuries ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse football lost its first player to a season-ending injury in Week 1 of fall camp.Fourth-year tight end Steven Mahar Jr. is out for the year with an ACL tear in his left knee that he suffered during Friday’s practice, Babers said Tuesday.The diagnosis came in Monday night, Babers said, and Mahar will have surgery after his knee has settled and the swelling has gone down. His ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse football’s Garrett Shrader is one of 35 quarterbacks on the preseason watch list for the 2023 Davey O’Brien Award.The award is the oldest national quarterback award and has been presented annually since 1977.Shrader was a member of the Davey O’Brien QB Class of 2022. He’d been added to the watch list following his Week 2 performance against Connecticut for which he was named ...

Aug. 7, 2023Updated: Aug. 7, 2023 8:19 p.m.The shocking news that the once all-powerful and glorious Pacific-12 Conference would soon be whittled down to the Pac-4 made it a sad Monday morning for quarterbacks already gearing up for the college football season.“Cal and Stanford have a great sports history, and they are being treated as irrelevant. I really worry about both of them,” said Joe Starkey, ...

9:02 AM on Aug 8, 2023UNIVERSITY PARK – A college football team is filled with a cast of characters. Starting safety Bryan Massey makes no secret about the role he’d like to play.On Saturday, in front of plenty of viewers for SMU’s fan fest practice, Massey delivered a hit that smeared the line between necessary and unnecessary. He sent tight end Micah Hilts – who owns a six-inch and 60-pound advantage ...

AUGUST 08, 2023 12:16 PMIt didn’t take long after the start of preseason camp for Dakereon Joyner to get adjusted to his new position.After just one or two days, he was able to anchor himself in his new surroundings and hone in on becoming a true running back as a South Carolina super senior.From his new vantage point in the backfield, Joyner can see improvements in the Gamecocks’ offensive and defensive ...

South Carolina missed out on a pair of major prospects who had been projected to the Gamecocks for most of the recruiting campaign by the national recruiting websites.First it was wide receiver Jonathan Paylor of Burlington, N.C., committing to N.C. State over the Gamecocks. Then, cornerback Jalewis Solomon of Ellaville, Ga., chose Auburn over the Gamecocks.USC’s 2024 recruiting class remains at 16 ...

5-7 minutes 8/8/2023Two weeks into preseason camp, San Diego State has a handful of football players nursing nicks and bruises, strains and sprains.The most notable — and unspecified — injury is to starting defensive end Garret Fountain, who watched Monday’s practice while wearing a right elbow brace.Fountain had a sling on his right arm while watching Saturday’s scrimmage, so being able to move his ...