Player Notes

BYU offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick has a lot of different questions to answer as he gets the Cougar offense prepared for the 2023 season.Who will back up Kedon Slovis at quarterback?How will the running back reps be divided?Which wide receivers are the best deep threats or going over the middle?What will be the optimal run-pass balance?But during interviews on Friday, Roderick said one of the ...

College football’s active fault lines make the San Andreas Fault look like a mere salt shaker. The entire sport was reshaped in a flurry of moves last week, and the once-iconic Pac-12 conference was swallowed up by the seismic shift of conference allegiances.The topography of the sport from coast to coast is unrecognizable; the Power Five conferences unsentimentally consolidated into the Power Four ...

BOISE — Ahmed Hassanein was watching a Los Angeles Rams games with his older brother, Cory Besch, shortly after he had moved in with Besch in southern California from Egypt.Hassanein had little knowledge of the NFL, or the game of football in general, but was drawn to the play of Rams defensive lineman Aaron Donald.“I was like ‘wow, that guy is really good,’” Hassanein remembers. “He was like ‘yeah ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — Carson Steele is at UCLA, but Ball State football is confident that its 2023 running back room can fill the void left by last year's Mid-American Conference leading rusher.Transfers Marquez Cooper (2022 First Team All-MAC) from Kent State and Charlie Spegal (2019 Indiana Mr. Football) from IU, redshirt sophomores Vaughn Pemberton and Rico Barfield, and talented freshmen in TJ Horton ...

Auburn’s quarterback battle was something Hugh Freeze said he wanted to whittle down to two within the first 10 days of the program’s fall camp.But the program’s at the halfway point of that 10-day mark, and Freeze’s offensive coordinator said there’s been little in the way of a breakout passer.“I just want to see somebody take control and take a step forward,” Philip Montgomery said Monday. “Separate ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Another Arkansas State football specialist garnered national recognition Tuesday as A-State punter William Przystup got nominated to the Ray Guy Award watchlist, the Augusta Sports Council announced.The Ray Guy Award is given to the best punter in college football, as voted by the council.Przystup, a redshirt senior, booted 21 punts for 913 yards last season. His 43.5 yards ...

For all intents and purposes, the respect and admiration thrown in Jacob Bayer's direction by his teammates and coaches during Arkansas State University's annual media day last week was well-earned.The 6-3, 315-pound junior transfer was called a "leader" by ASU Coach Butch Jones, and offensive coordinator Keith Heckendorf labeled Bayer a "communicator."However, there is a description -- one that neither ...

There are immeasurable differences between playing football in the FCS Southland Conference and the SEC.Better facilities, a bigger attention to nutrition and crazier fans all welcomed Andrew Armstrong to the Arkansas football program. But the senior transfer from Texas A&M University-Commerce will never forget his first workouts inside Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium."When we work out in the ...

FAYETTEVILLE — The largely new wide receiving corps for the University of Arkansas has dubbed their group the “Slideouts.” The term refers to speed.Andrew Armstrong, Tyrone Broden and Isaiah Sategna from the group have all hit 22 mph in the tracking from their Catapult vests through summer testing, strength and conditioning Coach Ben Sowders said. The rest of the corps has logged times beyond the 21-mph ...

Arizona completed another training camp practice on Tuesday, 25 days from the season opener on Sept. 2 against Northern Arizona.Here are some takeaways from another sunny afternoon at Dick Tomey Practice Fields:* To begin practice, the Wildcats — split into two groups, offense and defense — practiced the "Haka" dance.* After leaving practice early with an undisclosed injury on Monday, redshirt freshman ...