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Data Scout Notes: 2023: NAC...2022: NAC...(+) June 2022 Achilles INJ/Out for 2022...Transfer from Nebraska...2021: NAC...Transfer from Nebraska/Withdrawn...2020: NAC
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Virginia Tech defensive end Pheldarius Payne will likely miss the 2022 season with an Achilles injury he suffered in June. Tech coach Brent Pry said at the ACC Kickoff in Charlotte that it was a non-contact injury, and that it would be "tough" for him to make it back before the end of the season. Pry wouldn't rush him back to play a couple games since Payne could redshirt and retain a year of eligibility. Payne, who started his career at Lackawanna Community College, transferred to Tech in May after two years at Nebraska. "I doubt that we would burn a couple games if he had a chance [to come back in 2023]," Pry said.Pry was excited about adding the veteran to a rotation at defensive end that features three players that just moved there from diff erent positions and a pair of true freshmen. Payne had 40 career tackles with 4.5 tackles for a loss and three sacks at Nebraska. The lone veterans at the position going into the fall for the Hokies are TyJuan Garbutt, Jaylen Griffin and Eli Adams. Griff in missed spring camp recovering from a knee injury, but was cleared to fully participate in the team's summer workouts. "I was excited about what he was bringing," Pry said of Payne. "To be honest, more than anything, it was devastating for him. He was super excited about the opportunity." - Roanoke Times
(DS#28 DT) rSr/2024  DT Pheldarius Payne, Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech coach Brent Pry reported that defensive end Pheldarius Payne enrolled ahead of summer workouts and was officially part of the roster. The former Nebraska defensive end verbally committed back in March. Payne had been on Pry's radar going ba ck to the defender's time at Lackawanna Community College, about three hours away from Penn State's campus. The Virginia native was an impact player for Lackawanna's defense with 53 tackles, 18.5 tackles for loss and nine sacks over two seasons. "He had a shoulder injury at the time that kept us from taking him, but we would have taken him," Pry said. "He ended up at Nebraska and got his shoulder fixed, he was their third guy. He's looking for a chance to have more of an impact." - Roanoke Times
(DS#28 DT) rSr/2024 DT Pheldarius Payne, Virginia Tech
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Pheldarius Payne doesn't always do things exactly the way his outside linebackers coach teaches. Payne, a 6-foot-3, 260-pounder who arrived to Nebraska last summer as a junior college defensive lineman, listens to his position coach Mike Dawson and takes coaching and all of that, but sometimes when the ball gets snapped, instinct takes over. "He's a slippery guy," Dawson said last week. "A guy that can make plays. He can contort and twist his body. Sometimes I see him kind of do a pass-rush move and it' s nothing that you've seen or coached before and you're like, 'Yeah, that's not something we've worked on, but heck, it worked, so keep doing it, buddy." "He can get to the quarterback and find a way." By the end of the 2020 season, the Blackshirts had t urned themselves into a group that was consistently stingy against the run and one that could get off the field on third down like one of the Big Ten's best units. The two things NU never really got dialed up: Turnover creation and pressure on the quarte rback.Naturally, those two areas represent some of the biggest opportunities for growth this year. "You always need more pressure on the quarterback," defensive coordinator Erik Chinander said Monday before a reporter could even finish the questio n. Nebraska showed some signs in 2020, but opposing quarterbacks too often had too much time to throw and felt too comfortable against the Huskers. NU averaged 1.63 sacks per game, which tied for 10th in the Big Ten. Sack rate, of course, is not the lone measure for quarterback pressure, but over a long period of time, if you're pressuring the quarterback consistently, you're probably accumulating sacks, too. - Lincoln Journal Star
(DS#28 DT) rSr/2024 DT Pheldarius Payne, Virginia Tech
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Before arriving at Nebraska in the spring of 2020, the 6-foot-3, 260-pound defender recorded nine sacks in two seasons at Lackawanna (Pennsylvania) College. Last season at NU, he appeared in all eight games, finishing with 21 tackles, with two tackles fo r loss, one sack and a pair of pass breakups. He showed a relentlessness that made an impression on fans. Payne this coming season will likely end up playing standing up at times and with his hand in the dirt at others with the way defensive coordinator Erik Chinander and company roll through different fronts and personnel groups. The defensive line rotation is a deep one, and at outside linebacker the heavier group includes players such as Garrett Nelson and Damian Jackson.They help Payne with t he learning process, as does outside linebackers coach Mike Dawson. "I've learned a lot," Payne said. "I thought football was just X's and O's and just going, but you can learn stuff from the line pre-snap, after the snap and little movements from the li nemen." With a full spring of practices under his belt, Payne feels better prepared to make a bigger impact. "This will be a great year for him," Chinander said during the spring. "He's been through the program now, he's healthy. He's been in the weight room and he's got a lot of reps this spring." "I expect to do a whole lot better because now I know the system and how things run," Payne added. "I can just play. I can run to the ball and make plays. - Lincoln Journal Star
(DS#28 DT) rSr/2024 DT Pheldarius Payne, Virginia Tech
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The 2020 football season didn't proceed normally for anybody, but when Nebraska defensive coordinator Erik Chinander fielded a question last week about players who might have particularly needed this spring, his mind went first to Pheldarius Payne. The j unior college transfer built a good reputation as a pass-rusher at that level, verbally committed to North Carolina State and played with Lackawanna (Pennsylvania) Community College all the way to the juco national title game on Dec. 5, 2019. He flipped his commitment to Nebraska and signed his national letter of intent two weeks later, but wasn't set to arrive on campus until May 2020. Midway through that period, of course, the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the United States and threw pretty much eve rything off-kilter. Payne did arrive at NU on schedule, but he dealt with more than just the pandemic."At first when I came in, I had shoulder surgery, so as soon as I came in, I rehabbed for about two months," he told reporters Monday. "And I had to hurry up and lift weights and bench (press) and I was benching, I don't think 135 (pounds). I was benching like 25 on each side." The original plan was for Payne to play on the defensive line for Tony Tuioti. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 270 pounds, he was built a little bit more like, say, Deontre Thomas than some of the behemoths in the room such as Ty Robinson, Jordon Riley, Damion Daniels and other 300-plus pounders. Tuioti thought Payne could provide some pass-rush punch with a quick get-off and diff erent repertoire of moves. "Then I got COVID and I had to sit out and I lost weight," Payne said. - Lincoln Journal Star
(DS#28 DT) rSr/2024 DT Pheldarius Payne, Virginia Tech
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