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Wylan Free takes longer than most people to list siblings. He's got a long roll call with four brothers and five sisters. "I'm right in the middle," said Free, who has a twin sister, Kyja. Free also has been right in the middle of the action this fall practice at defensive back for Georgia Southern, where he transferred this summer after five years at Fresno State. The graduate transfer has one season of eligibility remaining, and the early returns are impressive. Here, Free is very quick when handling a task. "He's had two picks in two days," new head coach Clay Helton said Thursday after the second team practice.

Free intercepted a pass on Saturday as well. "He's somebody when we signed him, we actually said this kid can probably play all five positions in a nickel package," Helton said of the three cornerback and two safety roles. "He's very versatile. We started out over the summer looking at him at corner, got some work there. "Now we're looking at him at safety and he really has gone out there and made some plays on the back end. He's very rangy. He's got great length, great speed and great ball skills. Has a knack for coming down with the ball." Free, at 6-2 1/2 and 180 pounds, is taller than most of the defensive backs and gives the Eagles someone to match up with big receivers on the opposite side. It's a role he handled with Fresno State, where he started 22 of 43 games played from 2018-21 after redshirting in 2017. - Savannah Morning News

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FS Wylan Free, Georgia Southern
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08/06/22 - Davis Brin, rSr/2024, Georgia Southern, 6-2, 207 (DS#33 QB) + More +

University of Tulsa football players have been working all summer in the weight room and studying film. On Wednesday morning, they finally got the chance to get out on the field and put it all to use. For starting quarterback Davis Brin, the official start of the 2022 season - the first day of practice - was long-anticipated, even if the players weren't even wearing full pads yet. That won't happen until Sunday. "It's amazing, I've been waiting for this day, been working all summer and it felt a little bit like Christmas Day for me today," Brin said. "Just being able to get back on the field, having offense, defense, everybody flying around, competing, I love it. It's always the most exciting time of the year, and we'll go and get better every day until Game 1." - Tulsa World

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QB Davis Brin, Georgia Southern
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08/05/22 - Colin Springer, rSr/2024, Georgia Southern, 5-11, 210 (DS#999 LS) + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-SOUTHERN CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM (COACHES): LS Colin Springer, 5th, Wofford,...Second team honors went to long snapper Collin Springer and offensive lineman Al Hogan. Springer, a fifth-year senior from Newberry, S.C., has played in 28 career games. - Wofford Football

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LS Colin Springer, Georgia Southern
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07/29/22 - Anthony Beck II, rSr/2023, Georgia Southern, 6-3, 238 (DS#17 P) + More +

2022 PRESEASON RAY GUY WATCHLIST: Anthony Beck II - Georgia Southern,...Beck is a big redshirt senior (6-4, 245) who has been a punter and holder since his record-setting prep career at South Effingham High in Georgia. He also played high school quarterback and linebacker. In five games at quarterback he threw for 643 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 233 yards and three more scores. In five games as a linebacker, he had 23 tackles, three sacks and a fumble recovery. Beck II also made three field goals. After redshirting in 2018, Beck II has been Georgia Southern’ s punter and holder, with a three-year total of 183 punts, an average of 4.32 yards, ten touchbacks, 61 inside the 20, 80 fair catches and 38 longer than 50 yards. Last season was by far his best when he set a school record with a 45.0-yard average … Also had a school-record 17 punts of 50 yards or longer … Had 23 punts downed inside the 20 as opposed to just two touchbacks … Also had 29 punts fair caught. - Georgia Southern Football

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P Anthony Beck II, Georgia Southern
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07/28/22 - Kyle Vantrease, rSr/2023, Georgia Southern, 6-2, 218 (DS#28 QB) + More +

With the kickoff of the 2022 football season 40 days away, the Georgia Southern Athletics Department has announced its plans to celebrate 40 years of Eagle football in the modern era. Georgia Southern began playing football in 1924 as Georgia Normal School but suspended the sport after the 1941 season due to World War II. The Eagles resumed playing as an NAIA independent in 1982, and the first year of NCAA unclassified play was in 1983. In 1993, Georgia Southern joined the Southern Conference and began transitioning to the FBS in 2013 before beginning play in the Sun Belt Conference in 2014. The Eagles have won six NCAA Division I-AA national championships, 11 conference titles and three bowl games in their 40 years of uncompromised excellence. The Eagles will open the season on Saturday, Sept. 3 at home against Morgan State. - Georgia Southern Football

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QB Kyle Vantrease, Georgia Southern
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07/28/22 - Anthony Beck II, rSr/2023, Georgia Southern, 6-3, 238 (DS#17 P) + More +

2022 PRESEASON RAY GUY WATCHLIST: Anthony Beck II - Georgia Southern,...A second-team All-Sun Belt selection in 2021...Named to Phil Steele's and Pro Football Network's second-team All-Sun Belt squad...Started all 12 games as the punter and holder...Saw action on 114 special teams plays...Set a school record with a 45.0-yard average for the season...Also had a school-record 17 punts of 50 yards or longer...Had 23 punts downed inside the 20 as opposed to just two touchbacks. - Georgia Southern Football

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P Anthony Beck II, Georgia Southern
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07/25/22 - Jalen White, rSr/2025, Georgia Southern, 6-0, 205 (DS#48 RB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD CANDIDATE: Jalen White (Jr.), Georgia Southern,...In 2021, running back Jalen White (6-0, 215) played in all 12 games … Played 201 total snaps (170 on offense, 31 on special teams) … Carried the ball 68 times for 383 yards and four touchdowns … Had a long run of 59 yards … Had four carries for 12 yards in the opener against Gardner-Webb … Carried the ball four times for 12 yards at Florida Atlantic …In 2020, White played in 12 games … Saw action on 114 total snaps (35 on offense, 79 on special teams) … Carried the ball 20 times for 86 yards … Had a tackle on special teams … Saw brief action on special teams against Campbell and Louisiana … Played five special teams plays at ULM - Georgia Southern Football

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RB Jalen White, Georgia Southern
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07/24/22 - Kyle Vantrease, rSr/2023, Georgia Southern, 6-2, 218 (DS#28 QB) + More +

Sun Belt Football Media Day is only a few days away and the conference has announced that Georgia Southern football student-athletes sixth-year athletes Kyle Vantrease and Dillon Springer will accompany head coach Clay Helton to the 2022 Sun Belt Media Day. The event is now held over two days in New Orleans with the Sun Belt East Division going on Tuesday. The 2022 Sun Belt Football Media Day will be held in person on Tuesday, July 25 and Wednesday, July 25 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. The event will be broadcast on ESPN+ with a morning session from 9 a.m. to noon CT and an afternoon session from 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. CT. Two student-athletes from each of the 14 programs will join their head coach for an open media session. - Georgia Southern Football

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QB Kyle Vantrease, Georgia Southern
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07/23/22 - Shemar Bartholomew, rSr/2024, Georgia Southern, 6-0, 200 (DS#56 CB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): DB Shemar Bartholomew, Northwestern State, Sr., New Orleans, La.,...Bartholomew, a New Orleans native, earned second-team All-Southland Conference honors after intercepting two passes and breaking up six others. His nine career interceptions ranked him 27th among active FCS players at the conclusion of the 2021 season. Bartholomew enters his final season as a Demon two interceptions shy of the career top 10 in school history. - Northwestern State Football

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CB Shemar Bartholomew, Georgia Southern
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07/22/22 - J.D. King, rSr/2023, Georgia Southern, 5-10, 215 (DS#999 RB) + More +

Georgia Southern's J.D. King was making a run to an outstanding season in 2020 when it was cut short by a torn ACL in his left knee in the seventh game. A combination of a power and speed back with the ability to run inside and outside the tackles, King still earned All-Sun Belt Conference honorable mention honors. King had surgery and rehabilitated the knee, missing spring and fall practice sesssions. After sitting out the first three games of the 2021 slate, he made his return on Sept. 25 against Louisiana.

King saw only limited action, appearing in four games and was able to redshirt and plan a return for a sixth year this fall. That plan has changed, as King announced on his Twitter account Tuesday that he has retired from playing football. "It is with a humble heart that I would like to announce my retirement from the game I love," the post read. "My body and my mind tell me it is time to take my next step in life." He played in 12 games in 2019, starting six, and made All-Sun Belt honorable mention after tallying 804 yards and eight TDs on 185 carries. King started the first seven games in 2020 before the knee injury against Troy cost him the remainder of that contest and the next six. He finished with 116 carries for 625 yards and five TDs. - Savannah Morning News

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RB J.D. King, Georgia Southern
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06/03/22 - Davis Brin, rSr/2024, Georgia Southern, 6-2, 207 (DS#33 QB) + More +

With the Hurricane losing their top rusher and two of their top three receivers from last season, they'll be looking for quarterback Davis Brin to take a step forward in his fifth year with the program. Brin saw the first significant action of his career last season, passing for 3,254 yards and 18 touchdowns with a 59.3% completion rate. He also added 75 yards and a score on the ground. He'll need to improve from an efficiency standpoint, however. Brin's 16 interceptions were the most in the FBS last season, with his 132.6 passer rating being the third-worst among quarterbacks with at least 400 pass attempts. - Wyoming Tribune Eagle

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QB Davis Brin, Georgia Southern
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06/02/22 - Khaleb Hood, rSr/2024, Georgia Southern, 5-08, 171 (DS#79 WR) + More +

Clay Helton took stock of the team when he was hired to be Georgia Southern's new head football coach last November. Helton reviewed film and observed the Eagles for four games that finished a 3-9 campaign in 2021. He then took over the program and watched players grind through nine weeks of strength and conditioning, and five weeks of spring practice culminating with the spring intrasquad game April 23. Asked recently which players stood out most, Helton said without hesitation that on offense it was the wide receivers.

The same position group that was basically an afterthought in 2021 in the Eagles' run-heavy offense. All receivers on pass plays - including tight ends and running backs - totaled just 141 receptions for 1,765 yards and a mere five touchdowns (four by tight ends) last season. "People came up to me after the spring game and go, "Coach, we didn't know these guys. We looked at the roster and some of the guys had been there three years," Helton recalled with a chuckle. Khaleb Hood, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound rising senior, is perhaps the best known of the group with team-highs of 41 catches for 497 yards last season. He didn't score a touchdown. - Savannah Morning News

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WR Khaleb Hood, Georgia Southern
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05/19/22 - LV Bunkley-Shelton, rSr/2025, Georgia Southern, 5-11, 212 (DS#268 WR) + More +

Former Arizona State wide receiver LV Bunkley-Shelton wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning that he has narrowed his choices for a new school to Kansas and Oklahoma. Bunkley-Shelton, who is 5-foot-11 and 195 pounds, took an official visit to Kansas last week, one week after he did the same at Oklahoma. A four-star recruit out of Los Angeles in the Class of 2020, he was ranked the No. 86 player in the country and the No. 16 player at his position, according to Rivals.com, and played in the US Army All-American Bowl.

A commitment from Bunkley-Shelton would be a significant addition for the Jayhawks, who lost Kwamie Lassiter II, their leading receiver last season as a sixth-year senior. Bunkley-Shelton caught 33 passes for 418 yards and two touchdowns while starting seven games as a redshirt freshman for the Sun Devils last season. He had four catches for a season-high 76 yards in the win over Colorado and matched a season high with four catches in the Las Vegas Bowl loss to Wisconsin. - Lawrence Journal World

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WR LV Bunkley-Shelton, Georgia Southern
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05/05/22 - Keaton Upshaw, rSr/2024, Georgia Southern, 6-6, 250 (DS#51 TE) + More +

If not for an injury that cost him the entire 2021 season, Upshaw might have left for the draft this spring. Instead, he will look to prove he is fully healthy in an offense that should make heavy use of the tight end. Kentucky's tight end room is deep, but the 6-foot-6, 246-pound Upshaw has the most well-rounded skillset of the group. No Kentucky tight end has been drafted since Jacob Tamme in 2008. - Courier Journal

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TE Keaton Upshaw, Georgia Southern
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05/04/22 - LV Bunkley-Shelton, rSr/2025, Georgia Southern, 5-11, 212 (DS#268 WR) + More +

Arizona State wide receiver LV Bunkley-Shelton announced on Thursday that he is entering the transfer portal after two years with the program. Bunkley-Shelton appeared in four games as a freshman, hauling in 11 passes for 100 yards before he was eventually redshirted. In his second season with the Sun Devils, Bunkley-Shelton caught 33 balls for 418 yards over 12 games. His yards per reception jumped 3.6 yards from 9.1 his first season to 12.7 in the second. Bunkley-Shelton finished third on the team in receiving yards in 2021 behind Ricky Pearsall and Rachaad White, who both will not be with the team next season. - ArizonaSports.com

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WR LV Bunkley-Shelton, Georgia Southern
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