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WEEK 7 ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORABLE MENTION: Wake Forest QB Deshawn Purdie threw for 270 yards and four touchdowns in his first start in a 39-14 win at Oregon State. - AP College Football

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QB Deshawn Purdie, Wake Forest
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10/13/25 - Chris Barnes, rFr/2029, Wake Forest, 5-07, 168 (DS#999 WR) + More +

WEEK 7 ACC ROOKIE OF THE WEEK: Chris Barnes, R-Fr., WR, Wake Forest (Houston, Texas),...Led the Wake Forest offense with three receptions for 102 yards and three touchdowns...Marked the first time a Wake Forest wide receiver had three receiving touchdowns in a game since AT Perry versus Syracuse in 2022...Totaled 170 all-purpose yards in the Demon Deacons' road win over Oregon State...Accounted for four explosive plays of 30 yards or more versus the Beavers. - ACC Football

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WR Chris Barnes, Wake Forest
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10/13/25 - Demond Claiborne, Sr/2026, Wake Forest, 5-09, 195 (DS#4 RB) + More +

WEEK 7 ACC RUNNING BACK OF THE WEEK: Demond Claiborne, Sr., RB, Wake Forest (Aylett, Virginia),...Led Wake Forest's offensive attack in the road win at Oregon State last week with 144 rushing yards and one touchdown on 16 carries, averaging 9.0 yards per attempt...Registered a rushing touchdown for the fifth straight game, the longest scoring streak of his career...Also caught two passes for 26 yards in the non-conference road win...Accounted for five explosive plays of over 10 yards in the win over the Beavers, including a 66-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter...Recorded his eighth rushing touchdown of the season with the 66-yard scamper...His second ACC Running Back of the Week honor this season. - ACC Football

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RB Demond Claiborne, Wake Forest
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10/11/25 - Deshawn Purdie, So/2028, Wake Forest, 6-3, 228 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Backup quarterback Deshawn Purdie threw for 270 yards and four touchdowns for Wake Forest in a 39-14 victory over winless Oregon State on Saturday. Chris Barnes caught three passes for 102 yards and three scores for the Demon Deacons (4-2, 1-2 ACC). It was the worst start for the Beavers (0-7, 0-0 Pac-12) since 1991, when they started 0-10. Wake Forest quarterback Robby Ashford was sidelined because of a thumb injury and was replaced by Purdie. Purdie got off to a good start, throwing a 36-yard touchdown pass to Chris Barnes that put the Demon Deacons up 8-0 after a 2-point conversion. He added a long 52-yard scoring pass to Micah Mays Jr. late in the opening quarter. Purdie connected with Barnes for a 11-yard touchdown and Conner Calvert kicked a 43-yard field goal to make it 25-0 at halftime.

Purdie hit Barnes again in the third quarter with a 55-yard TD pass. The Beavers avoided the shutout with Cornell Hatcher Jr.'s 29-yard touchdown run early in the final period, but Demond Claiborne ran for a 66-yard TD for Wake Forest. Beavers backup Gabarri Johnson threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to David Wells Jr. for the final margin. The Demon Deacons were coming off a 30-23 victory at Virginia Tech, their first conference win. Jake Dickert is in his first season as coach of Wake Forest after leaving Washington State, the Pac-12's only other remaining member after conference realignment. The Beavers lost 27-23 last week at Appalachian State, which spurred speculation that coach Trent Bray might be fired. Instead, special teams coach Jamie Christian was dismissed on Sunday following the loss. The announcement came shortly after athletic director Scott Barnes said he and Bray were evaluating the program with an eye toward making immediate changes. - Wake Forest/AP College Football

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QB Deshawn Purdie, Wake Forest
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09/08/25 - Demond Claiborne, Sr/2026, Wake Forest, 5-09, 195 (DS#4 RB) + More +

WEEK 2 ACC RUNNING BACK OF THE WEEK: Demond Claiborne, Sr., RB, Wake Forest (Aylett, Virginia),...Ran for 193 yards and three touchdowns in Wake Forest's 42-10 win over Western Carolina...Became the first FBS player to run for 190-or-more yards and at least three rushing touchdowns in a game this season...Eclipsed 100 all-purpose yards for the 14th time in the last 22 games...Logged an 85-yard rushing touchdown in the third quarter - the longest by a Demon Deacon since 2019...Averaged 19.3 yards per carry in the win, ranking third in Wake Forest single-game history. - ACC Football

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RB Demond Claiborne, Wake Forest
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08/29/25 - Robby Ashford, rSr/2026, Wake Forest, 6-2, 220 (DS#43 QB) + More +

Robby Ashford scored Wake Forest's lone touchdown on a first-quarter keeper and the Demon Deacons came up with a clinching late stop to hold off Kennesaw State 10-9 on Friday night and give Jake Dickert a successful sideline debut. Ashford's 5-yard keeper that ended with him flipping through a hit at the goal line was a rare highlight on a bumpy night for the Demon Deacons (1-0), who lost top player Demond Claiborne to injury after just three carries.

Still, Wake Forest hung on after forcing Dexter Williams II to throw incomplete on fourth down with 1:50 left, prompting Dickert to pump his fist in exuberance that might've had some mixed-in relief, too. Wake Forest didn't go ahead for good until Connor Calvert's 22-yard field goal with 3:05 left in the third. Coleman Bennett bounced off a hit and rumbled loose for a 19-yard touchdown in the first quarter for the Owls (0-1), who are in their second year of Bowl Subdivision play after a 2-10 reclassification season in the move up from FCS. - Wake Forest/AP College Football

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QB Robby Ashford, Wake Forest
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08/29/25 - Demond Claiborne, Sr/2026, Wake Forest, 5-09, 195 (DS#4 RB) + More +

Wake Forest running back Demond Claiborne suffered an apparent injury early in Friday night's opener against Kennesaw State. The exact nature of the injury wasn't immediately clear, but Claiborne was standing on the sideline with an icebag wrapped around his left side near the ribs and no longer holding his helmet midway through the second quarter. It was unclear whether he would return to the game.

The player expected to be the workhorse for coach Jake Dickert's first season came off the field and headed to the locker room after runs of 13 and 2 yards on the game's first two plays. He later came jogging out to the field carrying jersey-wrapped pads and checked in for the first of multiple times into the injury tent. He re-entered the game with 10:24 left in the second. But after a 4-yard carry up the middle on the first snap, he hopped up and immediately came jogging back to the sideline and was spotted doubled over in pain. The 5-foot-10, 195-pound senior ran for 1,049 yards and 11 touchdowns last year. - AP College Football

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RB Demond Claiborne, Wake Forest
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08/29/24 - Hank Bachmeier, rSr/2025, Wake Forest, 6-1, 215 (DS#37 QB) + More +

Hank Bachmeier came off the bench to throw for three touchdowns in his Wake Forest debut and Taylor Morin returned a punt 73 yards for a touchdown and picked up 100 receiving yards as the Demon Deacons pulled away to beat North Carolina A&T 45-13 in Thursday night's season opener. Running back Demond Claiborne rushed for 135 yards and a touchdown to help Wake Forest win its fourth straight season opener. Bachmeier, a former starter for Boise State and Louisiana Tech, finished 18-of-28 for 263 yards. Michael Kern drew the starting assignment at quarterback for Wake Forest, a decision revealed at game time.

Kenji Christian scored a touchdown and ran for 121 yards for the Aggies. N.C. A&T quarterback Kevin White was 10-of-16 for 116 yards. Andrew Brown hit two field goals, including a 51-yarder in the fourth quarter. Wake Forest took the lead for good with five minutes to play in the first half when Donavan Greene turned a short reception into a 24-yard touchdown play by breaking through N.C. A&T defenders. Matthew Dennis' 31-yard field goal on the last snap of the half extended the edge to 17-10. - AP College Football

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QB Hank Bachmeier, Wake Forest
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02/04/23 - Robby Ashford, rSr/2026, Wake Forest, 6-2, 220 (DS#43 QB) + More +

Hugh Freeze's arrival on the Plains brought loads of questions, and many of the on-the-field wonders came from one spot: the quarterback room. Would Auburn dip into the transfer portal for a quarterback? What does Freeze, a known quarterback guru, think of Robby Ashford? Is last year's Week One starter, TJ Finley, even still around? A little over two months later, Auburn wrapped up its first signing class under Freeze. It has seen the first of two transfer portal windows come and go. And still, a lot, if not all, of the questions surrounding the position remain. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Freeze said he thinks he'll know lots more about his quarterback room after spring practices start Feb. 27. "Truthfully, when I watched the cut-ups that I've watched, man, it's hard," Freeze said of Auburn's quarterbacks. "It's hard for me to adequately judge quarterbacks if they're not afforded the opportunity to stand in the pocket and make reads and make different throws for a decent percentage of time. The sample size for that is pretty small if they weren't under some type of duress, or maybe it was more of a move-the-pocket scheme. "So I'm anxious to get into spring and kind of see how they handle that, and then I'll go from there with what we do in the second portal window."

Auburn head football coach Hugh Freeze previews spring practices, recaps signing day while speaking to the media Feb. 2. Freeze confirmed reports that the program entertained bringing in a quarterback during the first transfer portal window, which closed in late January. Coastal Carolina's Grayson McCall, North Carolina State's Devin Leary and Oklahoma State's Spencer Sanders were all named that were tied to the Tigers. Although he didn't specify who was pursued, Freeze said he "never felt great" about many quarterbacks in the portal. "I was OK with that, honestly," Freeze said. "I'm excited to work with the ones we have." - Opelika-Auburn News

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QB Robby Ashford, Wake Forest
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01/21/23 - Hank Bachmeier, rSr/2025, Wake Forest, 6-1, 215 (DS#37 QB) + More +

Four months after he announced he was transferring away from Boise State, Hank Bachmeier has landed at Louisiana Tech. The Bulldogs, which play in Conference USA, went 3-9 last season, the first under head coach Sonny Cumbie. Its starting quarterback, freshman Landry Lyddy, entered the transfer portal just over a week ago. "I wanted to play in the Air Raid and in a pass-friendly offense," Bachmeier told ESPN. "I think Coach Cumbie and his track record are a great fit. It's an offense that any quarterback would want to play in." As many remember, Bachmeier hit the transfer portal after four treacherous games to start his senior season.

The Broncos' four-year starting quarterback turned the ball over three times in the opener against Oregon State and was benched for Taylen Green. Then a few weeks later, the 6-foot-1, 210-pound former four-star recruit completed less than 40% of his passes in an embarrassing loss at UTEP. Offensive coordinator Tim Plough was fired the next day and Bachmeier was in the transfer portal not long after. Bachmeier, who will head to Louisiana Tech with two years of eligibility remaining, came to Boise State in 2019 as the highest-ranked quarterback recruit to ever sign with a Mountain West school. - Idaho Press

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QB Hank Bachmeier, Wake Forest
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01/21/23 - Hank Bachmeier, rSr/2025, Wake Forest, 6-1, 215 (DS#37 QB) + More +

Former Boise State quarterback Hank Bachmeier is heading to the Bayou State to finish his college football career. Bachmeier told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Wednesday that he's going to Louisiana Tech, a Conference USA school. He has two years of eligibility remaining. The four-year starter for the Broncos announced he was transferring last September, not long after Boise State lost to major underdog UTEP and offensive coordinator Tim Plough was fired.

PM Bachmeier said he picked the program in Ruston, Louisiana, in part because of head coach Sonny Cumbie's Air Raid scheme on offense. The system routinely produced quarterbacks who passed for more than 4,000 yards a season when he was the offensive coordinator at Texas Tech. The native of Murrieta, California, won the starting job all four years he was at Boise State. He went 20-9 as the starter and ranks in the top 10 in program history in career passing yards (6,605, No. 7) and touchdown passes (41, No. 7). Louisiana Tech finished 10th in its 11-team league last season, going 3-9 overall and 2-6 in C-USA play. - Idaho Statesman

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QB Hank Bachmeier, Wake Forest
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01/18/23 - Robby Ashford, rSr/2026, Wake Forest, 6-2, 220 (DS#43 QB) + More +

It's a tradition unlike any other. Auburn announced the date for its 2023 A-Day spring game, and unsurprisingly, it coincides with the Saturday of the Masters Tournament. That has often been the case over the years, including last year, and it will again be the case this spring as the Tigers hold their annual spring game on April 8 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. This year's A-Day game will mark the culmination of the Tigers' first spring under new head coach Hugh Freeze, who was hired in late November and tasked with resurrecting a program that fell on hard time during a less-than-two-year tenure under Bryan Harsin.

Freeze retooled the coaching staff, retaining only Cadillac Williams and Zac Etheridge as assistants, and has overhauled the roster with 17 incoming freshmen and a transfer haul featuring a dozen more players; the Tigers' recruiting class ranks 18th nationally, according to the 247Sports Composite team rankings, while its transfer class ranks fourth. Auburn will be allotted 15 practices during the spring, and while an official start date has yet to be announced, the Tigers are likely to return to the field in early March. It will all lead to A-Day on April 8, which typically includes a full, split-squad scrimmage inside Jordan-Hare Stadium. - Birmingham News

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QB Robby Ashford, Wake Forest
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01/09/23 - Jacob Roberts, rSr/2024, Wake Forest, 6-0, 228 (DS#33 ILB) + More +

2022 ALL-BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM: LB - Jacob Roberts, Jr., North Carolina A&T,...A second-team designation may be unpopular among the Aggie faithful. Roberts is such a dominant force whenever he is on the field, whether it is blocking kicks or making big hits. Roberts was a preseason all-conference selection. Roberts finished the season with 72 tackles, including 43 unassisted and 5 1/2 tackles for loss. He returned two interceptions for touchdowns and blocked two kicks on special teams. He also had five passes defended and recovered two fumbles. Roberts ranked 11th in the nation in blocked kicks and earned conference defensive player of the week after recording 12 tackles and a pick-6 in the Aggies win over Campbell on Oct. 29. - North Carolina A&T Football

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ILB Jacob Roberts, Wake Forest
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01/09/23 - Karon Prunty, rSr/2026, Wake Forest, 6-1, 192 (DS#79 CB) + More +

2022 ALL-BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM: DB - Karon Prunty, R-Soph., North Carolina A&T,...Prunty lived up to his preseason hype coming into the Big South Conference from Kansas and the Big 12. Prunty finished second in the conference in interceptions with four. He made 32 tackles, including 23 unassisted. Prunty also had seven passes defended. Prunty earned Big South defensive player of the week after earning two interceptions against Bryant. - North Carolina A&T Football

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CB Karon Prunty, Wake Forest
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12/09/22 - Robby Ashford, rSr/2026, Wake Forest, 6-2, 220 (DS#43 QB) + More +

2022 SEC ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM: QB Robby Ashford, Auburn,...A redshirt freshman who won the starting job early in the season after transferring from Oregon, Ashford passed for 1,613 yards and seven touchdowns while rushing 709 yards and seven touchdowns in 2022. Ashford ranks third among freshmen in program history in all passing categories and sixth among Auburn all-time freshman rushers. Only Bo Jackson (9) has rushed for more touchdowns than Ashford as an Auburn freshman.

Ashford threw for a season-high 337 yards and two touchdowns against LSU. He rushed for 108 yards and two scores vs. Mississippi State and concluded the season with 121 rushing yards and a pair of rushing touchdowns against Alabama, becoming the first Tiger since Carnell Williams to rush for two TDs in an Iron Bowl. "I knew I had to go out there and give my all and do whatever it took," Ashford said after the Iron Bowl. "Unfortunately it wasn't enough. This experience I'll always remember and cherish." Ashford was named Auburn's offensive player of the year at the team's postseason banquet. - Auburn Football

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QB Robby Ashford, Wake Forest
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