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Name: Xavier Shepherd
College: Kennesaw State Number: 8
Height: 6-0 Weight: 205
Position: QB Pos2: RB/ATH
Class/Draft Year: rSr/2024
40 Low: 4.45 40 Time: 4.54 40 High: 4.63
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Data Scout Notes: 2022: PWPayton/P1stFCSAA/POPOYC/P1stC...2021: OPOYC/1stC
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Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State, Player News
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NOV 7 ASUN FOOTBALL OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State, Junior, Quarterback, Nashville, Tenn.,...First Career ASUN Offensive Player of the Week award; first-ever selection for Kennesaw State...Accounted for five touchdowns (30 points) in KSU's upset win over No. 15 UT Martin...Rushed for 86 yards and three scores, which marked his sixth career game with three rushing TDs...Made most of his three pass completions finishing with 123 yards and two touchdowns...Connected with Blak e Bohannon for a 61-yard touchdown play that helped Owls retake the lead in the fourth quarter. Other Nominees: Mike DiLiello, Austin Peay; Parker McKinney, Eastern Kentucky; ShunDerrick Powell, North Alabama. - ASUN Football
(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024  QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State
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Xavier Shepherd accounted for five touchdowns as Kennesaw State battled back from a 10-point deficit early in the third quarter to post a 44-27 win over No. 15 UT Martin in the first-ever meeting between the schools Saturday. Kennesaw State is now 6-0 ag ainst teams from the Ohio Valley Conference and 26-14 when playing a team for the first time. UT Martin (5-4) trailed 17-3 midway through the second quarter, but Dresser Winn threw two touchdown passes and Zak Wallace raced 21 yards for a touchdown to pu t the Skyhawks in front, 24-17 at intermission. Shepherd hit Gabriel Benyard with a 32-yard touchdown pass to make it 27-24 after three, then hit Blake Bohannon from 61-yards out to take the lead. Shepherd added his third rushing touchdown of the game an d Chance Gamble picked off a Winn pass as time expired and returned it 89 yards for a touchdown. Gamble picked off three passes and the Owls (5-4) came up with five interceptions against Winn. - Kennesaw State/AP College Football
(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State
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Xavier Shepherd accounted for 220 total yards and three touchdowns and Kennesaw State led all the way en route to a 30-20 win over Charleston Southern on Saturday. Shepherd threw for 158 yards and a touchdown and ran 28 times for 62 yards and a pair of s cores. His 37-yard scoring pass to Gabriel Benyard made it 10-0 with 5:35 remaining before halftime. Jeremiah McClendon got Charleston Southern back in it when he intercepted Shepherd for 25-yard pick-6 to cut its deficit to three. Conor Cummins pushed t he lead to 13-7 with 10 seconds before intermission with a 29-yard field goal. After the teams exchange scores in the third - one of which was a 1-yard Shepherd plunge - his 3-yarder with 10:28 left sealed it for the Owls. JD Moore and TJ Ruff each score d rushing touchdowns for the Buccaneers (1-7). - Kennesaw State/AP College Football
(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State
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Xavier Shepherd scored from 4-yards out in overtime to lift Kennesaw State to a 33-30 win over Tennessee Tech in a wild non-conference showdown on Saturday. The teams combined to score 17 points in the final 90 seconds of regulation. Conor Cummins conver ted a 40-yard field goal as time expired in regulation to pull Kennesaw State even and force the extra period, and the Owls' defense held the Golden Eagles to a 46-yard Hayden Olsen field goal on the opening possession of overtime.Shepherd had 224 yards and a touchdown and added 125 yards and the game-winning score on 30 carries. Shepherd put Kennesaw State (2-4) in front 24-20 with 1:21 left in the fourth quarter with a 20-yard touchdown pass to Isaac Foster, but Jeremiah Oatsvall completed four passes, including a 39-yard strike to Heath Price and an 18-yarder to Willie Miller for a touchdown with 27 seconds remaining. Oatsvall was 18 of 29 for 264 yards and three touchdowns for Tennessee Tech (1-6). - Kennesaw State/AP College Football
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Kennesaw State was approved for membership in Conference USA on Friday, and will join the league on July 1, 2024. Conference USA is going through a transition of its makeup, with six of the league's 11 current members in their last academic year before m oving to the American Athletic Conference next summer. That will be at the same time that Liberty, New Mexico State, Jacksonville State and Sam Houston State will join C-USA. Kennesaw State's addition a year after that will put the league at 10 members. C-USA Commissioner Judy MacLeod said adding Kennesaw State "continues to build upon our strong foundation." The public university with two campuses in Georgia has 43,000 undergraduate and graduate students and sponsors 18 sports, 17 of which will compete in Conference USA.Kennesaw State's football program is only in its eighth season. The Owls played the first seven as an associate member in the Big South, winning three conference titles before joining the school's other programs in the ASUN this season. Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA are leaving Conference USA for the American next summer. C-USA was at 14 schools before Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Mississippi left this past summer for the Sun Belt. - AP Col lege Football
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Isaac Foster scored with 21 seconds left in regulation and ran 12 yards for a touchdown in the second overtime to rally Kennesaw State to a 40-34 win over North Alabama on Saturday night. After Foster's burst around left end, the defense stood tall with Markeith Montgomery defending the fourth-and-7 pass from the 22. Noah Walters and Takairee Kenebrew hooked up for a 60-yard touchdown with 3:43 to play to put North Alabama up 27-20. The Owls, who had 227 yards rushing, worked their way back to fourth-an d-goal at the 1 when Xavier Shepherd hit Foster on a play-action pass to tie the game.On a third-and-16 to open the overtime, Walters and Kenebrew connected for their third touchdown for 31 yards. Shepherd responded with a 9-yard touchdown pass to Xavier Hill on third-and-8. Shepherd finished 13-of-18 passing for 172 yards and kept the ball 34 times for 102 yards and two more scores for the Owls (2-3, 1-0 Atlantic Sun). Foster had six runs for 36 yards and five catches for 76. Walters was 15 of 2 7 for 326 yards with Kenebrew catching four for a career-best 162 yards in the first-ever A-Sun game for the Lions (1-4, 0-1). - AP College Football
(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State
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2022 PRESEASON WALTER PAYTON AWARD WATCH LIST: QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State, Jr., 6-0, 205 (2021 Finalist),...Shepherd was named a finalist for the award in 2021 after putting together a record-breaking year for the Owls. The Nashville native set s ingle-season program records in both passing yards (1,341) and passing touchdowns (15) while ending the year ranked first in the FCS in rushing touchdowns (23). - Kennesaw State Football
(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State
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2022 PRESEASON STATS PERFORM FCS FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN: QB - Xavier Shepherd, 6-0, 205, junior, Kennesaw State (2021 All-Purpose),...The reigning Big South Conference Offensive Player of the Year recorded multiple accolades at the ASUN Conference's ina ugural Media Day July 22. The Nashville native was selected as the conference's first Preseason Offensive Player of the Year and was named to the Preseason All-ASUN Team at quarterback. Kennesaw State finished 11-2 in 2021 and ranked 10th in the final AF CA coaches poll. The Owls recorded their fifth all-time playoff win and fourth consecutive fall season with 10-or-more victories. With his performance, Shepherd became the first quarterback in program history to win 11 of his first 12 starts. - Kennesaw State Football
(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State
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2022 PRESEASON ASUN FOOTBALL ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM: QB Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State, Jr., Nashville, Tenn.,...Shepherd took over as a starter in week two of the 2021 season. The KSU signal-caller went on to lead the FCS in rushing touchdowns (23) and se t a new school record for passing touchdowns in both a single season (15) and a single game (4). During his sophomore campaign, Shepherd was named a STATS Perform FCS First Team All-American, HERO Sports First Team All-American and Associated Press Third Team All-American. He also took home the Big South Offensive Player of the Year Award and was selected to the All-Big South Conference First Team. - Kennesaw State Football
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2022 PRESEASON ASUN OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Xavier Shepherd, Kennesaw State,...Shepherd, a junior quarterback, was the Big South Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2021 and a Walter Payton Award finalist. The Nashville, Tenn., native receiv ed All-American honors from STATS Perform (First Team), HERO Sports (First Team) and AP (Third Team) after setting school records for single-season passing touchdowns (15) and touchdown passes in a game (4). He led the country in rushing touchdowns with 23 and ranked second in the FCS with 11.5 points per game. - ASUN Football
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Kennesaw State's Xavier Shepherd and Eastern Kentucky's Matthew Jackson were voted the Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively, in the 2022 ASUN Conference Preseason Football honors, announced by the league office on Friday. North Alaba ma led the way with seven members on the Preseason All-Conference Team followed by the Colonels with six while the remaining four schools each collected four picks. Kennesaw State was favored in the ASUN Coaches Poll with four first-place votes with UCA and EKU finishing in a tie for second place. JSU, Austin Peay and North Alabama rounded out the poll with the Bears and Governors each garnering a first-place vote. - ASUN Football
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2021 ALL-BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE FIRST-TEAM (COCHES/MEDIA): QB - Xavier Shepherd, Soph., Kennesaw State,...The sophomore tallied 14 passing touchdowns which set a new KSU single-season record. He also rushed for an FCS-leading 19 touchdowns. Shepherd is the only quarterback in Owl history to win 10 of his first 11 starts. The quarterback has thrown for 1,181 yards and leads the team in rushing with 836 yards. - Kennesaw State Football
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Quarterback Xavier Shepherd had four touchdown runs and threw for another score as Kennesaw State won its 10th straight game with an 48-21 victory over Davidson on Saturday in the first round of the Football Championship Series playoffs. The Owls (10-1) will face No. 7 East Tennessee State in the second round. Shepherd, who entered with a nation-leading 19 touchdowns rushing, carried the ball 13 times for 15 yards with all four touchdown runs coming from inside the 6. His 56-yard TD pass to Xavier Hill stretched the Owls' lead to 41-14.Iaan Cousin had a 10-yard touchdown run and Gabriel Benyard scored on a 63-yard punt return for the Owls. Dylan Sparks broke loose for a 54-yard touchdown run and finished with 107 yards rushing for Davidson (8-3) . Coy Williams had 90 yards on the ground that included a 61-yard TD run. Jalen Jefferson scored on a 45-yard fumble recovery early in the fourth quarter. It was Kennesaw State coach Brian Bohannon's 63rd career win, tying him with David Bennett (Coastal Carolina, 2003-2011) for the most in Big South Conference history. - Kennesaw State/AP College Football
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2021 BIG SOUTH OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR (COACHES): Xavier Shepherd, QB, Soph., Kennesaw State,...Shepherd was a four-time Big South Offensive Player of the Week honoree during the season, and is a finalist for the Stats Perform FCS Walter Payton Offe nsive Player of the Year Award. He ranks first in all of FCS with 19 rushing touchdowns, is third with 10.4 points per game and ranks eighth with 198 points responsible for. He finished the regular-season second in the conference with 836 rushing yards, and was 69-of-113 passing for 1,181 yards and a school-record 14 touchdown passes. Shepherd had a league-high six multi-touchdown games - including four games with at least three scores, he became just the third quarterback in Big South history with at l east 10 passing TDs and 10 rushing scores in the same season, and was the third QB in the conference record book to throw four touchdown passes in back-to-back contests.Shepherd had three 100-yard rushing games in 2021, highlighted by a career-bes t 179 in Week 6 at Hampton - a league record for a quarterback in a conference game. He led the Owls to two game-winning drives this season in which the team scored with less than a minute to win the game. Shepherd also had single-game career-highs of 2 09 passing yards (vs. Gardner-Webb), longest rush of 56 yards (at Wofford) and longest pass completion of 52 yards (at Campbell). He averaged 17.12 yards per completion, had a 184.4 passing efficiency rating and averaged 183.4 total offensive yards per g ame. - Big South Football
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Xavier Shepherd rushed for 118 yards, scoring a season-high four touchdowns and Kennesaw State opened the Big South title showdown with three unanswered rushing TDs to roll past Monmouth 49-17 on Saturday. The Owls (10-1, 7-0), ranked fifth in the FCS co aches poll, won their third Big South championship in the past five seasons, with the first 7-0 finish in the Big South. Kennesaw State earned the conference's automatic bid to the FCS playoffs, ending on a ninth straight win.Monmouth (7-4, 6-1), ranked No. 24, now awaits an at-large bid. The Hawks, who'd won the three previous conference titles, came in allowing 103.7 yards per game rushing. Kennesaw State piled up 471 yards on the ground and another 100 through the air. Tony Muskett completed 2 8 of 43 passes for 337 yards and a touchdown for Monmouth, but the Hawks gained just 30 on the ground, punted four times, turned the ball over on downs three times and picked up 337 yards of offense. Shepherd scored from the 9 on the game-opening drive, adding touchdowns of 4, 1 and 1 yards. Adeolu Adelke scored on a 61-yard burst, and Iaan Cousin gained 114 yards on three carries with a 38-yard TD. - AP College Football
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Xavier Shepherd scored on a 2-yard run as Kennesaw State drove 70 yards in eight plays for the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute remaining to defeat North Alabama 28-24 on Saturday. Kennesaw State (9-1, 6-0 Big South Conference), fifth-ranke d in the FCS coaches poll, had fallen behind 24-21 with 3:39 left in the game after North Alabama's Sam Contorno kicked a 29-yard field goal. North Alabama (2-8, 1-4) led 14-0 early in the second quarter in a game that saw two ties and three lead changes . Shepherd gave the Owls their first lead, 21-14, with a 3-yard run late in the third quarter. The Lions fought back with a Blake Dever 30-yard TD pass to Takairee Kenebrew, followed by Contorno's field goal to go up 24-21. On the game-winning drive, She pherd completed all three passes and kept the ball three times for short gains. Dever threw for 249 yards and three touchdowns against one interception, Cortez Hall made five catches for 96 yards and a TD for North Alabama. - AP College Football
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Xavier Shepherd passed for four touchdowns on just eight completions and Kennesaw State beat Robert Morris 45-21 on Saturday. Kennesaw State jumped out to a 14-0 lead after Robert Morris fumbled on its first two possessions - both recovered by Kennesaw S tate lineman Tyler Moore. Shepherd tied KSU's single-season passing touchdown record at 13 with a 42-yard connection with Adeolu Adeleke to make it 42-14 late in the third quarter. Shepherd was 8-of-12 passing for 185 yards and carried it 14 times for 44 yards for Kennesaw State (8-1, 5-0 Big South), which is ranked No. 8 in the FCS Coaches' Poll. Caleb O'Neal had 119 yards receiving and two scores, and freshman Gabriel Benyard rushed for a 49-yard touchdown. Nathan Robertson set a program record for th e longest field goal, making a 48-yarder to extend Kennesaw State's lead to 45-14. George Martin led Robert Morris (3-5, 2-3) with 293 yards passing and two touchdowns. Alijah Jackson had 91 yards rushing and a TD. - AP College Football
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Xavier Shepherd accounted for three touchdowns and Kennesaw State kept the Campbell offense out of the end zone in a 30-7 victory on Saturday. Je'Cory Burks returned a blocked field goal attempt 89 yards into the end zone that stretched the Owls' lead to 24-7 with about six minutes remaining. It was the fifth straight win for Kennesaw State (6-1, 3-0 Big South Conference), ranked 11th in the FCS Coaches Poll. Shepherd tossed a 52-yard touchdown pass to Nykeem Farrow late in the third quarter and a 4-yar der to Gabriel Benyard on the last play of the game. Shepherd also had a 3-yard TD run in the second quarter. He finished with 112 yards passing and 52 yards on the ground. Levi Wiggins returned a fumbled ball 94 yards for a touchdown in the first quarte r for Campbell (3-4, 2-2), which was held to 188 yards of offense. - AP College Football
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Xavier Shepherd had two touchdowns runs and Kennesaw State beat North Carolina A&T 14-0 on Saturday night. Shepherd ran into the end zone from the 3 to cap a 10-play, 80-yard drive midway through the second quarter. He added a 1-yard TD run with about th ree minutes left in the third. Shepherd finished with 66 yards rushing for Kennesaw State (5-1, 2-0 Big South Conference), which had 222 yards on the ground and held North Carolina A&T (3-3, 2-1) to just 31 yards rushing. In the first half, the Owls had two positive drives stall with fumbles, and Andrew Brown missed two field goals for North Carolina A&T (3-3, 2-1 Big South Conference). The Aggies drove to the Kennesaw State 14 but couldn't convert on fourth-and-1 with 6:16 remaining before the Owls ran out the clock. Jalen Fowler was 14-of-35 passing for 176 yards for the Aggies. - AP College Football
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Xavie Shepherd ran for 199 yards and three touchdowns, adding 109 passing yards, and Kennesaw State rolled to a 34-15 victory over Hampton in a Big South Conference opener on Saturday. Nath Robertson's 35-yard field goal was the only scoring in the first quarter and it gave the Owls (4-1, 1-0) the lead for good. Shepherd's 3-yard TD run just 1:13 into the second quarter made it 10-0. Iaan Cousin's 36-yard scoring run made it 17-0 before Jett Duffey got the Pirates (2-3, 0-1) on the scoreboard with a 41- yard TD toss to Hezekiah Grimsley with 1:11 left before halftime. Shepherd added a 5-yard TD in the third quarter and a 3-yarder early in the fourth. Kennesaw State rushed for 339 yards and Shepherd had half of their 58 carries. Shepherd completed 8 of 1 1 passes. The Owls finished with a 448-276 advantage in yards gained. Duffey completed 11 of 16 passes for 128 yards. Backup QB Christofer Zellous had a 14-yard TD pass to Jarrett Powell late in the fourth quarter. - AP College Football
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Quarterback Xavier Shepherd rushed for 124 yards and three touchdowns to lead Kennesaw State to a 31-6 win over Jacksonville State in a battle of Top 20 FCS teams on Saturday. The 20th-ranked Owls (3-1) held the ball almost 15 minutes longer than the 17t h-ranked Gamecocks (2-3), who fell behind 24-0 early in the third quarter. Kennesaw State had a pair of rushing touchdowns in the first quarter as the two drives combined for 20 plays, 125 yards and more than 11 minutes. It was 17-0 at halftime when an i nterception set up the Owls for a short field with Shepherd's second touchdown making it 24-0. After the Gamecocks got on the board with a touchdown pass from Zerrick Cooper to PJ Wells, Shepherd got his third TD, capping a 15-play, 75-yard drive that ch ewed up almost nine minutes. Kennesaw had 271 of its 343 yards on the ground. Their last matchup in 2018 was the FCS Game of the Year when Kennesaw State won 60-52 in five overtimes, the longest game in history for both teams and the most points either t eam ever allowed. - AP College Football
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Xavier Shepherd threw a pair of touchdown passes and ran 56 yards for a fourth-quarter score as Kennesaw State breezed to a 31-10 road victory over Wofford in nonconference play on Saturday. Nathan Robertson staked the Owls (2-1) to a 3-0 lead with a 24- yard field goal at the 5:11 mark of the second quarter. Shepherd hooked up with Caleb O'Neal for a 14-yard score with 51 seconds left before halftime for a 10-0 advantage.Kyle Glover's 29-yard TD run pushed the Owls' lead to 17-0 in the third quar ter before Walker Gliarmis got the Terriers (1-1) on the scoreboard with a 48-yard field goal at the 6:55 mark of the quarter. Kennesaw State made it 24-3 when Shepherd fired a 67-yard scoring strike to Iaan Cousin on third-and-20 just 41 seconds into th e final period. Shepherd put the finishing touch on the victory with a 56-yard TD run with 6:42 left to play. Shepherd completed 5 of 6 passes for 95 yards. Glover had 95 yards on 18 carries. Irvin Mulligan capped the scoring for Wofford with a 1-yard TD run with 10:26 remaining in the game. - AP College Football
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