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09/24/22 - Kurtis Rourke, rSr/2025, Indiana + More +

Kurtis Rourke set a single-game passing record for Ohio with 537 yards and his fourth touchdown pass went to Jacoby Jones with 52 seconds remaining to help Ohio hold off FCS-member Fordham 59-52 on Saturday. Fordham, trailing 53-52, drove to its 40 with five seconds left but the final play ended in Bryce Houston's fumble return for a touchdown to prevent an FCS-FBS upset. Rourke was 41-of-50 passing with four touchdowns for Ohio (2-2), which totaled 692 yards. He also carried it 10 times for 45 yards and a score. Jones and Tyler Foster each had two touchdown grabs. Tim DeMorat's record-breaking day came up just short for Fordham (3-1), which was trying to open the season 4-0 for the first time since 2013 when the Rams opened with ten straight wins. DeMorat threw his school-record sixth TD pass, the fourth to Fotis Kokosioulis for an 84-yarder, to put the Rams up 49-38 with 53 seconds left in the third quarter. DeMorat was 27 of 35 for 503 yards and Kokosioulis had 13 receptions for a school-record 320 yards and four TDs. Kokosioulis' scores went for 33, 74, 45 and 84 yards. - Ohio/AP College Football

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QB Kurtis Rourke, Indiana
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09/05/22 - Kurtis Rourke, rSr/2025, Indiana + More +

SEPT 5 MAC EAST DIVISION OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Kurtis Rourke, Ohio, Quarterback, R-Junior, Oakville, Ontario, Canada,...Rourke led the Bobcats to a 41-38 victory over the Florida Atlantic Owls, marking their first win of the 2022 season. Rourke also broke multiple personal records, setting two career highs. The redshirt junior hit 345 passing yards, surpassing his 308 yard record and threw four touchdown passes, beating his previous record of three. Overall, Rourke was 27-for-34 in the air. On the ground, he net 11 yards on 14 rushing attempts with one touchdown, putting him at five total. - MAC Football

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QB Kurtis Rourke, Indiana
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09/03/22 - Kurtis Rourke, rSr/2025, Indiana + More +

Kurtis Rourke threw four touchdown passes and Ohio held off a late rally by Florida Atlantic in a 41-38 victory on Saturday night. The Bobcats (1-0) survived a wild fourth quarter in which the Owls had a chance to take the lead after twice trailing by 17 points. N'Kosi Perry led the rally for FAU (1-1), finishing 23-of-41 passing for 346 yards with five touchdowns. Rourke completed 27 of 34 passes for 345 yards. Sieh Bangura had 114 yards rushing and James Bostic had 136 receiving yards with one touchdown for the Bobcats.

Ohio took its first lead at 20-17 on the first possession of the second half, an 11-play, 87-yard drive capped by Rourke's 5-yard pass to Sam Wiglusz. Rourke later added a 2-yard touchdown pass and a 1-yard scoring run and the Bobcats led 34-17 early in the fourth quarter. After Perry and Rourke traded touchdown passes Ohio led 41-24 with seven minutes remaining. Perry then led a rally, hitting Jahmal Edrine for a 7-yard score at 6:09 and LaJohntay Wester for another 7-yarder at 4:09. With the score 41-38, the Owls forced a three-and-out then took possession at their own 19 with 1:36 remaining. After a couple of first downs, the drive stalled on downs near midfield and the Bobcats took a knee to end the game. - Ohio/AP College Football

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QB Kurtis Rourke, Indiana
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08/14/22 - Mikail Kamara, rJr/2026, Indiana + More +

Mikail Kamara is a name to know on the James Madison football team. "He's a big, twitchy guy," said James Madison redshirt senior tight end Drew Painter. "He's fast. He gets off the ball. He'll give you a good punch off and when you gotta get him down, he's hard to get down...he just plays hard and flies around." Kamara is expected to be a big-time contributor for JMU along the defensive line this fall. The Ashburn, Virginia native will likely start for the Dukes after missing all of last season due to injury. Kamara has worked his way back on to the field after multiple torn labrum injuries. "I had a huge surgery where they put a bunch of rods in, a whole bunch of stuff," said Kamara. "So the first month or so I was in a sling, back-to-back slings. And then after that was when I started getting a little bit of shoulder motion and the by October (2021) is when I started touching the weight room, I started running and doing stuff like that." The explosive defensive lineman first burst on the scene at JMU during the 2021 spring season when Kamara registered three sacks and 4.5 tackles for loss in just six games. He's hoping to make even more of an impact for the Dukes in 2022. - WHSV.com

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DE Mikail Kamara, Indiana
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08/11/22 - Devon Matthews, rSr/2023, Indiana + More +

Somewhere, in the midst of a soul-searching offense inside IU's North End Zone football facility, safeties coach Jason Jones asked his star safety what brought him back. Devon Matthews - better known by his nickname, "Monster" - probably would've had NFL options. He'd accomplished a tremendous amount in college, both individually as one of the Hoosiers' best defensive players across the past four seasons and collectively as part of a group that guided Indiana to back-to-back bowl games in 2019 and 2020.

Jones, then, was curious: After a tremendously disappointing 2021 season, why did Matthews elect to use his COVID season and opt for one more year in college? "The reason that he chose to come to Indiana was because he wanted to come here and do something different," Jones said. "He said, 'Coach, we didn't finish the right way. I want to come back, and we're gonna finish this thing the right way." As Tom Allen's program tries to rebound from its dismal 2-10 performance last season, the Hoosiers will lean heavily on their most experienced players this fall. Players for whom last year's bottoming out was an aberration across the course of 4-5 years spent either in the bowl field or pushing up against it all the way into the final weekend of the regular season. Nowhere on his roster can Allen count more of those players than in his all-important defensive backfield. - Indianapolis Star/News

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SS Devon Matthews, Indiana
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08/10/22 - D.J. Matthews Jr., rSr/2023, Indiana + More +

D.J. Matthews is one of the smallest players on Indiana's roster, but no one left a bigger void than the Florida State transfer when he suffered a season-ending knee injury at Western Kentucky in week four last season. Indiana brought in Matthews to fill the opening left by Whop Philyor as the next playmaker in the open field, and the 5-foot-11 and 160-pound Jacksonville, Fla. product was highly productive in a number of ways. Matthews caught 13 passes for 165 yards, returned four punts for 83 yards with a career-long, 81-yard touchdown against Idaho, and he rushed twice for 28 yards with a score.

Indiana's offense was never a juggernaut in 2021, but in the first four weeks with the shifty Matthews on the field IU scored 119 points. They would only produce 88 points over the final eight contests without him. When Matthews went down in a heap on the turf at Western Kentucky as he recovered a muffed punt, in many ways the IU offense crumbled right along with him. That realization once again hit IU coach Tom Allen and his assistants this week as the Hoosiers opened fall camp in Bloomington. "After the first practice, the general consensus of the staff was 'wow, boy did we sure miss D.J. last year," Allen said on Friday via Zoom. "It really, really hurt us last year losing him. He didn't get to play very many games, so you kind of forget really how good he was." - Thedailyhoosier.com

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WR D.J. Matthews Jr., Indiana
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08/07/22 - DeQuece Carter, rSr/2024, Indiana + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL TEAM (COACHES): WR Dequece Carter, Fordham, Sr.,...Enters 2022 with 1,869 career receiving yards, tenth most in school history...Named 2021 First Team All-Patriot League...Started all eleven games at wide receiver...Caught 48 passes for 872 yards and eleven touchdowns...Recorded at least one touchdown in eight of the eleven games. - Fordham Football

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WR DeQuece Carter, Indiana
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08/03/22 - Sean Wracher, rSr/2024, Indiana + More +

2022 PRESEASON PATRICK MANNELLY AWARD WATCHLIST: Sean Wracher, Indiana,...A two-time Phil Steele third-team All-Big Ten selections (2021, 2022), Wracher has handled the long snapping duty in all 33 career games. His efforts have helped three of his teammates earn all-conference honors, as both punter Haydon Whitehead (honorable mention) and place kicker Logan Justus (second team) earned All-Big Ten honors in 2019 and place kicker Charles Campbell (second team) garnered All-B1G in 2020. A two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, Wracher's work helped Whitehead to a spot as a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award after he averaged 43.4 yards per punt to sit No. 4 on IU's single-season list. - Indiana Football

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LS Sean Wracher, Indiana
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08/03/22 - D.J. Matthews Jr., rSr/2023, Indiana + More +

2022 PRESEASON PAUL HORNUNG AWARD WATCH LIST: DJ Matthews Jr., Indiana,...Matthews Jr. enrolled at IU in 2021 spring classes and participated in practice, before suffering an injury in the fourth game of the season in 2021. In four games, he caught 13 passes for 165 yards, returned four punts for 83 yards and rushed twice for 28 yards. He accounted for two scores, a rushing score against Cincinnati and a punt return for a touchdown versus Idaho. His punt return touchdown versus the Vandals covered 81 yards to mark the 10th-longest in program history and was his second career punt return TD.

He had his best all-around game against No. 8 Cincinnati when he pulled in five passes for 120 yards, his second career 100-yarder and first as a Hoosier. He added the rushing score and 28 yards on the ground for 148 all-purpose yards. At his previous school, Matthews is 10th at FSU with 582 career punt return yards and 56 returns, and he holds two of the Top-4 single-game marks. In 35 games (16 starts), Matthews Jr. owns 84 receptions for 809 yards and five touchdowns to go along with one punt return TD. He earned an interdisciplinary social science degree in Dec. 2020. - Indiana Football

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WR D.J. Matthews Jr., Indiana
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08/03/22 - Tiawan Mullen, Sr/2023, Indiana + More +

2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: Tiawan Mullen, Indiana, Senior CB,...The Fort Lauderdale, Florida, native earned All-America accolades in each of his first two seasons on campus and is a two-time All-Big Ten performer. In 2021, Mullen was the first cornerback in program history to earn first-team All-America honors (FWAA, Phil Steele) and just the second cornerback (Tim Wilbur, 1980; second team) in school history to achieve All-America status. His first-team selection made him the first Hoosier since offensive lineman Dan Feeney (2015, 2016) to claim first-team recognition. Mullen was also the program's first cornerback to card first-team All-Big Ten honors since Tracy Porter (2007) after he made 38 tackles, 27 solo, with 3.5 sacks, 4.5 tackles for loss, three interceptions, one forced fumble, four pass breakups, and one quarterback hurry in eight games. He led all Big Ten defensive backs in sacks (T-12th overall) and TFLs, and shared No. 6 overall in interceptions. - Indiana Football

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CB Tiawan Mullen, Indiana
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08/02/22 - Myles Price, rSr/2025, Indiana + More +

2022 PRESEASON PAUL HORNUNG AWARD WATCH LIST: Myles Price, Texas Tech,...Price, one of 52 multi-talented college football players named to the 2022 watch list, is the Red Raiders' 2021 leader in all-purpose yards among returning players from last year's squad. As a sophomore, he racked up 643 all-purpose yards – tallying 523 receiving, 83 rushing, and 37 punt return yards. He garnered watch list attention for the Hornung Award last preseason following his true freshman campaign. In his two seasons, Price has totaled 1,131 all-purpose yards behind 488 in his freshman season. - Texas Tech Football

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WR Myles Price, Indiana
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07/28/22 - David Ellis, rJr/2024, Indiana + More +

Indiana senior running back David Ellis is leaving the Hoosiers for health reasons, sources confirmed to CNHI. It's unclear at this point whether Ellis will enter the transfer portal, but it's an option, sources said. Ellis had a promising freshman season as a slot receiver and on special teams for IU in 2019, returning 28 kicks for 579 yards (20.7-yard average), which ranked third nationally among true freshman. He appeared in all 13 games for IU, posting four 100-yard return games, while adding 16 catches for 173 yards and nine rushes for 53 yards and a rushing TD. But the 6-foot-1, 204-pound Ellis started encountering ankle problems as a sophomore, missing the first three games of the 2020 season. He still ended up with 16 carries for 61 yards and 11 catches for 137 yards and a TD in five games. Last season, Ellis appeared in just three games. His final IU game was Sept. 25 at Western Kentucky, when he went out with an ankle injury and was sidelined the rest of the year. - Herald Bulletin

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RB David Ellis, Indiana
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07/25/22 - Shaun Shivers, rSr/2023, Indiana + More +

2022 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD CANDIDATE: Shaun Shivers (Sr.), Indiana,...Second-year senior running back Shaun Shivers appeared in 43 games (9 starts) over four seasons at Auburn University (2018-21). He owns 1,020 rushing yards on 201 attempts (5.1 average) with eight touchdowns. Shivers has 38 receptions for 211 yards and one TD in addition to 233 kick return yards on 14 kickoffs. Last season he collected 87 yards on 14 carries with one touchdown ... made 22 receptions for 163 yards and one TD ... added 52 return yards on three kickoffs ... appeared in 10 games. - Indiana Football

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RB Shaun Shivers, Indiana
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07/23/22 - Justice Ellison, rSr/2025, Indiana + More +

2022 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD CANDIDATE: Justice Ellison (So.), Wake Forest,... Running back Justice Ellison (5-10, 204) played in eight games in 2020 listed as a “true freshman” then played as freshman again last year, so would that be an untrue or false freshman? Whatever, he finished 2021 with 541 rushing yards, ranking second on the team while also having seven rushing touchdowns in 11 games played…Set a new career highs with 18 rushing attempts, two rushing touchdowns, and one receiving touchdown against NC State (Nov. 13), helping Wake Forest clinch a perfect 6-0 record in home games...Recorded career highs with three receptions versus Louisville...Scored his rushing first touchdown of the 2021 season against Florida State...Ran for a career high 86 yards against Virginia which included his longest career run of 63 yards…Also 46-yard rushing touchdown against Army clinched the Deacs victory and moved Wake Forest to 7-0 to start the season…Earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors after a win over Louisville with 15 rushes for 67 yards and a touchdown. - Wake Forest Football

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RB Justice Ellison, Indiana
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07/18/22 - Donaven McCulley, Sr/2025, Indiana + More +

Indiana coach Tom Allen has been hosting players at his house by position group this summer and posting group photos on his Twitter account. On Thursday night, he hosted the wide receivers, which led to him formally confirming former Lawrence North star Donaven McCulley has joined that position group after starting four games at quarterback for IU last season. The move was initially reported in June when IU play-by-play man Don Fischer said McCulley would move during a radio interview.

Allen told IndyStar the decision to move was actually McCulley's idea. The 6-5, 210-pounder has had an interest in the position for years, Allen said, and believed it would be his quickest path to playing time this season with there being extensive competition at quarterback, with the addition of Missouri transfer Connor Bazelak and return of a healthy Jack Tuttle. Allen said he was thrilled with the move, as McCulley's length, athleticism and skill set gives him the opportunity to make an immediate impact. The Hoosiers lost their two starting outside wide receivers in Ty Fryfogle and Miles Marshall. McCulley is expected to compete for those spots along with North Carolina transfer Emery Simmons and junior college transfer Cam Camper among others. - Indianapolis Star/News

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