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  2020 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: DE Malcolm Koonce, Buffalo,...Koonce was an All-MAC First Team selection in 2019 after leading the Mid-American Conference in sacks with nine. The senior defensive end added 34 tackles and 11 tackles for loss on the season. He was named the Defensive MVP of the 2019 Bahamas Bowl after recording five tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble against Charlotte. - Buffalo Football

rSr/2021 DE Malcolm Koonce, Buffalo
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  2020 OUTLAND TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: OT Kayode Awosika, Buffalo,...Awosika has been the Bulls' starting right tackle for the past two seasons. He was an All-MAC Second Team selection in 2019 after being a part of one of the best offense lines in school history. UB's offensive line was named honorable mention for the Joe Moore Award as one of the top 15 offensive line units in the nation in 2019 and helped block for an offense that rushed for a school-record 3,256 yards and allowed a program-low eight sacks, second fewest in the country. - Buffalo Football

rSr/2021 OG Kayode Awosika, Buffalo
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  2020 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD WATCH LIST: Kevin Marks (Jr.), Buffalo,...The Virginia native had a rushing touchdown in each of the last six games of the regular season. He rushed for a career-best 1,035 yards and eight touchdowns last year. Marks rushed for over 100 yards five different times, including 118 yards on 16 carries against Toledo and 112 yards against Ohio. - Buffalo Football

rSr/2022 RB Kevin Marks Jr., Buffalo
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  University at Buffalo running back Jaret Patterson has caught the attention of a Pro Football Hall of Famer. Barry Sanders, the legendary Detroit Lions running back, posted a highlight video of Patterson on Wednesday on his Twitter account and wished Patterson good luck. Patterson will be a junior at UB this fall. Patterson was named a second-team, preseason All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation last week. He set UB single-season records for rushing yards (1,799) and rushing touchdowns (19) in 2019, and he led the Mid-American Conference and was fifth in the nation in rushing yards. Patterson set a MAC single-game rushing record of 298 yards Nov. 29 against Bowling Green. Patterson is also the second-leading returning rusher in the Football Bowl Subdivision, behind Oklahoma State's Chuba Hubbard, who ran for 2,094 yards in 2019. - Buffalo News

rJr/2021 RB *Jaret Patterson, Buffalo
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  The Covid-19 pandemic has put much of the University at Buffalo football program's offseason regimen on hold, but it hasn't stopped Jaret Patterson from gaining attention as a potential NFL Draft candidate in 2021. Patterson has spent the spring in Maryland, where he is training for the 2020 season and the start of UB's fall practices, but says he isn't paying attention to the draft chatter. "I really don't have time to reflect on that," Patterson recently told the News. "It's already going by pretty fast. I was just in my freshman year and I'm trying to take it one day at a time. I don't listen to the outside noise. I listen to things with my head down and it's tunnel vision. How can I improve, on and off the field? Each and every day."

Patterson isn't embracing the speculation regarding his future. Instead, he is taking a holistic approach in preparing to take the next step. He's immediately focusing on the 2020 season, not the 2021 NFL Draft. UB's season is scheduled to open Sept. 5 at Kansas State. "I really want to improve in all areas of my game," Patterson said. "I don't focus on improving one thing. I want to improve every aspect. "I really want to win a MAC championship. That's something I want to do for this team and for the university. That will help make my next step stronger, being a good leader and a good teammate. Doing the same thing I've been doing, and doing more of that." - Buffalo News

rJr/2021 RB *Jaret Patterson, Buffalo
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  The fate of football season, college and pros, remains up in the air. But on Thursday, Ford Field lost its first football event of the year, with news the Mid-American Conference media kickoff will be shifting to a virtual event for 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The media days will be a two-day online event, sometime this summer, the conference announced Thursday. The Mid-American Conference has moved its media days to a virtual platform for 2020.

"A virtual media preview will provide the opportunity for increased exposure for our coaches, student-athletes, member institutions and the conference as a whole," MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said in statement. "This will allow the membership to not only connect with the media but students, fans and alumni from all over. The MAC will continue to look for innovative ways to expand its reach." MAC football media days have taken place annually at Ford Field for more than a decade, with the lone exception being 2017, when they were held at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. - Detroit News

rJr/2021 RB *Jaret Patterson, Buffalo
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  University at Buffalo offensive lineman Tomas Jack-Kurdyla was selected fourth overall by the Edmonton Eskimos in the CFL draft. It is the highest a UB player has been selected in CFL draft history. A Montreal native, Jack-Kurdyla was a four-year starter, making 40 starts, including 11 at right guard this past season. UB's offensive line rushed for a school-record 3,256 yards and allowed a program-low eight sacks. "I'm excited, obviously blessed and honored," he told the Edmonton Sun. "Edmonton's a great city, I've only heard nice things about it. I've heard the football culture there is serious and it's great, a winning organization. I'm just really ready to earn my keep and prove that I'm not a waste." The previously highest drafted player from UB was wide receiver Natey Adjei, selected at No. 22 by the Toronto Argonauts in 2013. - Buffalo News

Sr/2020 OG Tomas Jack-Kurdyla, Buffalo
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  Former UCLA outside linebacker Tyree Thompson tweeted Monday that he had been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA, allowing him to complete his college career next season at Buffalo. Thompson sat out the entire 2019 season after undergoing foot surgery in August and entered the transfer portal in December. He had started every game for the Bruins in 2018 and finished fourth on the team with 55 tackles. Thompson, who played at Mission Hills Bishop Alemany High, started his college career at Sacramento State and played for one season at Los Angeles Valley College before coming to UCLA. - Los Angeles Times

rSr/2021 OLB Tyree Thompson, Buffalo
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  A strong 2019 season brought UB's overall record to 24-15 since 2017, marking the program's first time having three consecutive seasons of being at or above a .500 winning percentage during its Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) era. This past fall also produced the Bulls first taste of back-to-back bowl seasons, after just two coming from 1999-2013. The team also placed a program record 12 players on the All-Mid-American Conference team. One of the biggest factors in that success was tailback Jaret Patterson, who rewrote the UB record book last fall. Patterson's sophomore campaign saw him setting single-season program records for rushing yards (1,799), yards from scrimmage (2,008), rushing touchdowns (19) and total touchdowns (20). The two-time All-MAC selection ranked fifth in the nation in rushing and was one of only six players to account for over 2,000 yards from scrimmage and score 20 or more TDs.

Patterson and the Bulls were nearly done with the first two phases of their 2020 offseason schedule. After a great winter conditioning period in the newly minted Murchie Family Fieldhouse, UB would open up the spring season by getting a good portion of its 15 scheduled spring practices, ahead of the annual spring game slated for April 3. But before they knew it, just like everyone else in the nation, the sweeping impact of the COVID-19 outbreak picked off the Bulls' spring schedule. Patterson does think the abbreviated spring will pay off for UB this fall, though, simply because of the advantage it'll have over other programs. "We really got a head start because we started (earlier) than most programs so that's a good thing," Patterson said in a conversation on Twitter. "But definitely missing out on them other practices and reps are big. I don't really think it will affect us, we just have to make them (up) whenever (we) get back to things." - Niagara Gazette

rJr/2021 RB *Jaret Patterson, Buffalo
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  As an NFL hopeful at the University at Buffalo, Evin Ksiezarczyk had a daily routine of training at the football weight room next to UB Stadium. That routine ended March 16 when he learned the football weight room was closed as part of a shutdown by the school due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Ksiezarczyk, an offensive lineman from West Seneca East who played at UB from 2015 to 2019, immediately made plans to find a local gym and a trainer in lieu of using UB's facilities and working with its athletic personnel. But later in the day, many of the gyms and training facilities in Western New York had also closed per orders from New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. That left Ksiezarczyk without a place to prepare for a future in professional football.

"I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do," Ksiezarczyk told The News last week. "I did not expect any of this to happen." Scouts have told The News that Ksiezarczyk could be a late-round draft pick, or could sign as an undrafted free agent and compete for a spot on an NFL roster in training camp. But even after he participated in UB's pro day March 11 at the Murchie Family Fieldhouse, many NFL hopefuls like Ksiezarczyk, who aren't slam-dunk first-, second-or third-round prospects in the draft are trying to figure out how to negotiate preparation for the NFL. "It was good to have our pro day early," Ksiezarczyk said. "If not, it probably would have been canceled." - Buffalo News

rSr/2020 OT Evin Ksiezarczyk, Buffalo
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  A year ago at this time, scouts from 30 NFL teams packed the Buffalo Bills' ADPRO Sports Training Center for the University at Buffalo's Pro Day. Quarterback Tyree Jackson and wide receiver Anthony Johnson were the stars of the show, with both expected to be mid-round draft picks. That, of course, never happened. Both Jackson and Johnson went undrafted, proving that outside perception sometimes doesn't match up with NFL thinking. So while the professional turnout for this year's UB Pro Day - held Wednesday on campus at the Murchie Family Fieldhouse - was far less, no firm conclusions should be drawn. Nine NFL teams - the Buccaneers, Bills, Giants, Jets, Packers, Broncos, Lions, Bears and Browns - were there to watch nine former Bulls work out. Additionally, five CFL teams - the Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders and Toronto Argonauts - had scouts on hand. - Buffalo News

rSr/2020 OT Evin Ksiezarczyk, Buffalo
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  Buffalo coach Lance Leipold has agreed to a new five-year contract for the second consecutive offseason, this time after leading the Bulls to their first bowl victory in school history. Leipold's new contract runs through the 2024 season, extending his previous deal by one year. The deal is a reward for building Buffalo into a consistent winner. With a 31-32 record over five seasons, Leipold already ranks fourth on the school list for coaching victories, and Buffalo's 24 wins over the past three seasons lead the Mid-American Conference over that span. The Bulls closed last season with an 8-5 record, including a 31-9 win over Charlotte in the Bahamas Bowl. It was the school's first win in four bowl appearances. Leipold was named MAC coach of the year in 2018 after Buffalo finished 10-4 and set a single-season school record for wins. - AP College Football

rJr/2021 RB *Jaret Patterson, Buffalo
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  Lance Leipold and the Buffalo Bulls have already found success this offseason landing an instant impact grad transfer to plug a hole created by graduation. About a month ago, OL Ray Thomas-Ishman committed to the Bulls helping a unit that loses three starters to graduation. The UB coaching staff went back to the grad transfer well to land Lehigh LB Keith Woetzel from the FCS ranks. - SB Nation

rSr/2022 ILB Keith Woetzel, Buffalo
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  The Buffalo Bulls offensive line is losing a lot going into the 2020 season. Long time starters LT Evin Ksiezarczyk, LG Paul Nosworthy, and RG Tomas Jack-Kurdyla are graduating, leaving just 2/5 of perhaps the strongest unit on the 2019 team. Fortunately for the Bulls, they are getting reinforcements in the form of grad transfer LT/LG Ray Thomas-Ishman from UMass. - SB Nation

rSr/2021 OG Ray Thomas-Ishman, Buffalo
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  2019 ALL-PATRIOT LEAGUE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): LB: Keith Woetzel, Lehigh, Sr.,...Woetzel's first career honor comes one day after he was named one of 26 finalists for the Buck Buchanan Award, given to the top defensive player in the FCS. He spearheaded the resurgence of Lehigh's defense in 2019, ranking at or near the top of the league and among the national leaders in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks. Woetzel finished his senior season with 118 tackles, 17.5 tackles for loss and a school single-season record 12 sacks.

He also picked off two passes. Woetzel leads the Patriot League and ranks 10th nationally in tackles per game; tops the league and ranks second nationally in sacks per game and leads the Patriot League and ranks fourth nationally in tackles for loss per game. He also ranks second nationally in solo tackles per game (7.4). The owner of seven double-digit tackle games this season, Woetzel was a two-time Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week and won national honors following a 15 tackle, four-sack, one-interception performance in a win at Fordham on October 19. - Lehigh Football

rSr/2022 ILB Keith Woetzel, Buffalo
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