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Draft Scout College Football Player News: Virginia Tech
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2020 PAYCOM JIM THORPE AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Caleb Farley, Virginia Tech, Jr.,...A first-team All-ACC pick in 2019, he led the ACC with 16 passes defensed and was amongst the nation's best averaging 1.5 passes defensed per game. He was tied for sec ond in the ACC with four INTs and registered a 17-yard INT return TD in a 45-0 shutout of Georgia Tech (11/16). The Hickory, N.C. native posted a career-high four passes defensed in a 43-41 six-OT win vs. North Carolina (10/19). - Virginia Tech Football
rJr/2021  CB *Caleb Farley, Virginia Tech
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2020 BUTKUS AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Rayshard Ashby, Virginia Tech,...Ashby was a second-team All-ACC selection and finished third in the voting for ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Ashby led the league with 120 total tackles and ranked third in the ACC with 17.0 tackles for loss. Ashby led a VT defense that helped the Hokies become the first ACC team to post back-to-back shutouts against Power Five foes for the first time since 1978 and holding Georgia Tech and Pitt scoreless in consecutive outings . - Virginia Tech Football
Sr/2021  ILB Rayshard Ashby, Virginia Tech
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2020 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: DB Caleb Farley, Virginia Tech,...Farley led the ACC with 16 passes defensed and was amongst the nation's best averaging 1.5 passes defensed per game. He was tied for second in the ACC with four INTs and registered a 17-yard INT return TD in a 45-0 shutout of Georgia Tech (11/16). - Virginia Tech Football
rJr/2021 CB *Caleb Farley, Virginia Tech
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2020 PAYCOM JIM THORPE AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Jermaine Waller, Virginia Tech, Jr.,...Waller (6-1, 180) received Honorable Mention All-ACC accolades in 2019, a season where he started in 10 games and played in all 13 contests. The Washington, D.C. na tive defended 13 passes, which was tied for seventh in the conference and he was also seventh with three interceptions along with teammate Dax Hollifield. - Virginia Tech Football
Sr/2022 CB Jermaine Waller, Virginia Tech
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2020 PRESEASON LOU GROZA COLLEGIATE PLACE-KICKER AWARD WATCH LIST: Brian Johnson, Virginia Tech,...Johnson enters the season on a streak of 12 consecutive made field goals, including 3-for-3 performances in both the regular season finale against Virginia and against Kentucky in the Belk Bowl. In that game, while wearing the honorary #25 jersey of Coach Frank Beamer, he connected on a career-long 54 yard field goal. - Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award
rSr/2021 K Brian Johnson, Virginia Tech
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2020 PRESEASON BILETNIKOFF AWARD WATCH LIST: Jadan Blue, Temple,...Blue set the Temple marks with 95 catches for 1,067 yards in 2019. He had four games with 10+ catches and five 100-yard games a year ago despite starting just eight contests. The Randalls town, Md., native is poised to take over the primary punt and kickoff return duties in 2020 after the departure of All-American Isaiah Wright. - Temple Football
rSr/2023 WR Jadan Blue, Virginia Tech
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2020 PRESEASON BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: CB Caleb Farley, Virginia Tech,...Farley (6-2, 207) blossomed into one of the ACC's top cornerbacks in just his second season playing that position after serving as a high school quarterback. A first-team All-ACC pick in 2019, he led the ACC with 16 passes defensed and was amongst the nation's best averaging 1.5 passes defensed per game. He was tied for second in the ACC with four INTs and registered a 17-yard INT return TD in a 45-0 shutout of Georgia Tech (11/ 16). The Hickory, N.C. native posted a career-high four passes defensed in a 43-41 six-OT win vs. North Carolina (10/19). - Virginia Tech Football
rJr/2021 CB *Caleb Farley, Virginia Tech
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2020 PRESEASON BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: LB Rayshard Ashby, Virginia Tech,...Ashby (5-10, 237) was named ACC Linebacker of the Week five times in 2019. The Chesterfield, Virginia native was the only defensive player in the league to win that many ACC PO W honors in 2019. Ashby was a second-team All-ACC selection and finished third in the voting for ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Ashby led the league with 120 total tackles and ranked third in the ACC with 17.0 tackles for loss. Ashby led a VT defense that helped the Hokies become the first ACC team to post back-to-back shutouts against Power Five foes for the first time since 1978 and holding Georgia Tech and Pitt scoreless in consecutive outings. - Virginia Tech Football
Sr/2021 ILB Rayshard Ashby, Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech defensive end Jaevon Becton has entered his name into the transfer portal, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The Hokies announced Becton was suspended from the team on March 4 for a violation of the school's code of con duct, but declined to address the disciplinary action outside of a brief statement. He was removed from the team's online roster at the time. Becton's status with the team hadn't changed when he entered the transfer portal this week.The 6-foot-4, 255-pounder had 12 tackles last season (six solo) with one quarterback hurry in 10 games as a redshirt freshman. He signed with the Hokies out of Ocean Lakes High School (Virginia Beach) as a three-star prospect in 2018. Tech addressed its depth at defen sive end by signing five defensive ends in 2020. The Hokies most recent roster addition at the position came in April when Youngstown State graduate transfer Justus Reed signed with the program. - Roanoke Times
rSo/2023 DE Jaevon Becton, Virginia Tech
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The NCAA Division I Board of Directors has come out against making changes to the transfer waiver process at this time. The Transfer Waiver Working Group recommended a one-time transfer waiver in the five sports (men's basketball, women's basketball base ball, men's ice hockey and football) that don't allow for immediate eligibility earlier this year. The Division I Council is still expected to vote on the proposal this month, but the Board of Directors' guidance could delay any change for the 2020-21 ac ademic year. "The board agreed to lift the moratorium on transfer legislation for the 2020-21 legislative cycle but recommended to the Council that changes to the waiver process as suggested by the working group are not appropriate at this time," the NCA A's statement said. "Board members recommended the waiver process be sensitive to student-athlete well-being, especially those impacted by COVID-19 in the interim period."That would mean Virginia Tech running back Raheem Blackshear will have to go through the same waiver process Brock Hoffman and Braxton Burmeister went through last year. The Hokies were 0 for 2 in 2019 with Hoffman's case getting national attention. Blackshear, who enrolled at Tech in January, likely faces an uphill battle witho ut the one-time transfer rule. Virginia Tech was still gathering the paperwork for the Rutgers transfer in mid-April and had yet to submit his waiver. - Roanoke Times
rSr/2022 RB Raheem Blackshear, Virginia Tech
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Temple football coach Rod Carey was ecstatic while watching the NFL draft over the weekend. How could he not be? Temple had four players selected in the draft, the most ever for the program. The school had three players selected eight times. Center Matt Hennessy was selected in the third round by the Atlanta Falcons. Cornerback Harrison Hand went in the fifth round to the Minnesota Vikings. The Eagles selected linebacker Shaun Bradley in the sixth round, and fellow linebacker Chapelle Russell was taken in the seventh round by Tampa Bay, guided by former Temple head coach Bruce Arians. "It is a dream come true, a moment in time where they've probably been dreaming about that moment since they first played football, and it came true," Carey said Tuesday during a video conference call with reporters.Temple has had multiple players drafted for five straight years, the only non-Power Five school to do so. "For our program, it's a huge recruiting [boost]," said Carey, who went 8-5 in his first season after being the head coach the previous six at Northern Illinois. "And it's a powerful, powerful thing." Temple has had 77 players drafted by NFL teams. Having this type of success, especially lately, is something any coaching staff would look to build on. "It just happened and we are certainly capitalizing," Carey said. "You've probably seen our social media and things like that and we're pushing those things out and we want to continue to do that, because we've proven now, not just with this year but in the previous years at Temple, if you come here, there is a clear pathway." - Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News
rSr/2023 WR Jadan Blue, Virginia Tech
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The last time former Virginia Tech quarterback Ryan Willis spoke to reporters he was near tears. Willis offered brief answers to three questions before leaving the Jamerson Athletic Center in September after an embarrassing loss to Duke in what turned ou t to be the final start of his career. He couldn't say then what he can say now that injuries derailed the 2019 season for him. Willis hasn't had that problem with NFL scouts, who know what he went through at the time and have instead focused on talking to him about his 2018 season when he threw for 2,176 yards (58.5 completion percentage) with 24 touchdowns as Tech's starting quarterback. "They know injuries kind of screwed up my year," Willis said.Willis would clam up when talking about his hea lth when he was in Blacksburg, but with his collegiate career now in the rearview mirror he opened up to The Roanoke Times about the challenges he faced in 2019 for the first time and his optimism heading into next week's NFL Draft. Willis' eventful coll egiate career didn't get the final chapter he was hoping for. He turned the ball over four times in a 35-28 season-opening loss to Boston College, and was benched after a 45-10 loss to Duke a month into the season. - Roanoke Times
rSr/2020 QB Ryan Willis, Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech landed a commit from Youngstown State defensive Justus Reed on Friday night. Reed, who entered his name into the NCAA transfer portal in February as a grad transfer, tweeted out his decision. Tech has struggled the last two seasons to gener ate a consistent pass rush edge. Emmanuel Belmar led the defensive ends with four sacks last season, and the group combined for 8.5 sacks. The Hokies defensive ends combined for 11 sacks in 2018. Reed had 12.5 sacks all by himself in 2019 along with 42 t ackles (30 solo) and 19 tackles for loss. He was the first Youngstown State player to earn first-team All-Missouri Valley Football Conference honors since 2016.The 6-foot-3, 270-pounder also has the size new co-defensive line coaches Bill Teerlinc k and Darryl Tapp have made a priority. He signed out of high school back in 2014 with Florida. The Clearwater native sat out two of the three seasons he spent in the SEC. He redshirted as a true freshman and missed most of the 2016 with a knee injury. R eed transferred to Youngstown State, but suffered a series of injury setbacks including a torn achilles that forced him to miss the entire 2018 season. - Roanoke Times
rSr/2021 DE Justus Reed, Virginia Tech
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Temple has agreed to a three-year deal with Nike to become its official outfitter for athletics, the university announced Wednesday. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Temple and Under Armour mutually decided to part ways five years after signi ng a 10-year extension in 2015. At the time, The Inquirer reported that the agreement was worth $30 million, citing two sources. "We are very excited about our new partnership with Nike, the leading apparel company of collegiate athletics," said Patrick Kraft, Temple's director of athletics. "We look forward to working together in this partnership to enhance the Temple and Nike brands."Nike will be the exclusive brand for all apparel, footwear, and accessories for Temple's 19 varsity sports. The deal will go into effect in July, according to the Owls. Nike designs at schools like Oregon, LSU, and Baylor have proved to help recruiting. Teams wearing Nike apparel have won the last six men's basketball and college football championships. In 2018, N ike outfitted 52.8% of Power 5 and Group of 5 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Temple will become the seventh of 12 schools in the American Athletic Conference outfitted by Nike. - Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News
rSr/2023 WR Jadan Blue, Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech running back Deshawn McClease isn't going to let a canceled pro day get in the way of his NFL aspirations. McClease spent the two months leading to Tech's pro day working out at Bommarito, a 20,000-square foot athletic complex in the Miami area that counts dozens of current and former professional players as clients. He wrapped up the training session a week before the coronavirus virus outbreak shut down much of the country. The NFL quickly applied restrictions that prevent teams from sen ding personnel on the road, effectively canceling pro days scheduled after March 13. Pro days are the best chance for players that weren't invited to the NFL combine to perform for a large group of scouts."I'm not bummed out about it, there's stil l an opportunity to make it," McClease said. "My main focus is trying to control what I can control." McClease relied on that same philosophy in Blacksburg as he dealt with injuries that sidelined him for long stretches of his college career - including the 2016 season. "Early in my career, I was given lemons," McClease said with a laugh. "I had my first two years taken away from me. I really had to fight my whole time at Tech. I had to fight some uphill battles. I felt like I definitely responded in a way not many people could say they have. There's visible and tangible evidence every single year I've gotten better and continued to get better." McClease intends to still "put on a show" for NFL scouts - he ran a 4.5 40-yard dash at Bommarito - but they won't get to see it first hand. - Richmond Times-Dispatch
Jr/2020 RB Deshawn McClease, Virginia Tech
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