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03/04/23 - QB Cade McNamara, rSr/2025, Iowa + More +

The two most marquee names from Iowa's transfer class are Erick All and Cade McNamara, who were team captains and All-Big Ten performers at Michigan. Both sustained injuries last season and questions loomed during their recruitment about their availability for spring practice. Thursday offered a chance for updates. McNamara (knee) said he is ahead of schedule, participating in every weight-room session and throwing. He expects to participate and be 100% by the end of spring practice in late April. All (back) was less definitive but said all signs are pointing to spring participation. "I feel great but it's just a process," All said. "It's kind of like playing the time game, but for the most part I'm moving good and hopefully I'll be out there. It's been a while since I've felt this good." - Iowa City Press-Citizen

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QB Cade McNamara, Iowa
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03/04/23 - OG Junior Angilau, rSr/2025, Oregon + More +

One trait immediately comes to mind when former Texas teammates think of offensive lineman Junior Angilau: Strength. The 6-foot-6, 311-pound Angilau, who transferred to Oregon this winter, routinely faced off with 6-foot-2, 344-pound defensive tackle Keondre Coburn during practice from 2018-21 and those battles made each better players.

"When I mean strong, I never met nobody that strong," Coburn said. "He's so happy. Throughout the whole practice, tired, not tired, sad, not sad, happy. Any moment he's always going to put a smile on the field in front of anybody. I feel like Junior is probably the best thing that really could've happened to me because we both came in together and that's my dog forever. I'm so sad that he had to leave Texas, but he's going to be doing great things at Oregon." Angilau started 34 games at left and right guard for Texas but missed this season due to a knee injury he suffered before the season. He's vying for a starting role at one of those interior positions for the Ducks in 2023. - The Oregonian

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OG Junior Angilau, Oregon
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03/02/23 - QB Cameron Rising, rSr/2025, Utah + More +

Kyle Whittingham expects that the next time you see Cam Rising, he will be starting for the University of Utah in the season-opener vs. the University of Florida. The Utes' head coach has been steadfast in that belief in the weeks since Rising exited the Rose Bowl in the third quarter on Jan. 2 with what was later revealed to be a torn left ACL. The opener will be played on either Aug. 31 or Sept. 2, roughly nine months since the injury, which falls in line with what is the general recovery timeline. Whittingham told The Salt Lake Tribune last week in a wide-ranging interview that Rising is on, if not ahead of schedule in his recovery, but there is another factor as far as the timeline goes that isn't being talked about enough.

Is Rising going to be ready for fall camp? If yes, will he be there for all of it? Some of it? Either way, how much of camp does Rising need to participate in for Whittingham to be comfortable putting him out there against the Gators? "To be ready for the opener, he has to get some reps in camp," Whittingham told The Tribune. "Maybe not necessarily the onset of camp, but by midway through camp, so we'll see how things progress. If he's not ready until a few days before the game, it's unlikely he would play in that game because he just wouldn't be completely sharp in all other areas." Utah has not announced a start date for fall camp, but FBS programs can practice 25 times over 29 days leading up to the opener, which would put the Utes' first practice on or about Aug. 2, eight months after the injury occurred. - Salt Lake Tribune

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QB Cameron Rising, Utah
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03/01/23 - DE Kam Butler, rSr/2025, Virginia + More +

Senior defensive end Kam Butler expressed a similar sentiment and said "absolutely" UVa is capable of changing its trajectory for the better. Butler joined the Cavaliers last season as a graduate transfer from Miami (Ohio) and is only back for 2023 because he's taking advantage of the extra year the NCAA granted UVa players whose eligibility would've expired after this past fall. The NCAA made that ruling on the heels of the November shooting, which tragically killed former Cavaliers Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry and Devin Chandler.

Butler's original plan prior to gaining the sixth year in college football, he said, was to finish his master's degree in higher education this spring while simultaneously training for the NFL with UVa's strength coaches. For now, he's gladly put the pro dream on hold. "I wanted to get back with the team," he said. "I started building some great relationships with people off the field on the administrative side of things for the athletic department and I wanted to build on those relationships going forward, too, and I like the strength staff here. I like the coaching staff here, so I feel like it would've been weird to not come back or not right for me to go somewhere else." His sense is there are enough returning players with experience to enforce the practice habits and expectations Elliott introduced to the Hoos last year as well as to teach coordinator John Rudzinski's defense, which the Cavaliers improved while using last year, to new additions on the team. Most notably, the defensive line is filled with fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year players with Butler and Aaron Faumui, Chico Bennett Jr., Jahmeer Carter and Paul Akere. - Charlottesville Daily Progress

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DE Kam Butler, Virginia
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03/01/23 - QB Brett Gabbert, rSr/2025, Miami (OH) + More +

Highlighted by non-conference road action at Miami (Fla.) and Cincinnati as well as five home games, the Miami University football team announced its 2023 schedule on Wednesday morning. Miami opens the season in Coral Gables, Fla., under the lights versus the Miami Hurricanes on Friday, Sept. 1 and travels to face UMass on Saturday, Sept. 9. Rounding out non-conference action will be a trip to Nippert Stadium to face the Cincinnati Bearcats on Saturday, Sept. 16 before hosting Delaware State in the home opener on Saturday, Sept. 23. The matchup with the Hornets will be Miami's annual Football Alumni Day/Hall of Fame Weekend. The RedHawks are a Mid-American Conference best 34-16 in their last 50 MAC games and begin conference play on Saturday, Sept. 30 at Kent State. Rounding out other conference road games will be at Western Michigan (Saturday, Oct. 14), at Ohio (Saturday, Oct. 28) and at Ball State (Saturday, Nov. 25). - Miami OH Football

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QB Brett Gabbert, Miami (OH)
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02/28/23 - QB Garrett Shrader, rSr/2024, Syracuse + More +

Syracuse football's starting quarterback Garrett Shrader will miss the entirety of spring practice after undergoing a successful procedure on his right arm, the program announced Monday. A source close to the program told syracuse.com that the procedure was specifically on Shrader's elbow. They could not provide more details on the procedure itself.

Spring practice starts March 21. The spring game is set for April 21. "I'm disappointed to miss the rest of the spring, but looking forward to rehabbing and getting ready for this upcoming season," Shrader said in the release. Shrader captained SU's offense in 11 and a half games this season, missing six quarters in November with an undisclosed lower body injury. It is currently unknown what his recent procedure on his throwing arm was for and when he suffered the injury that necessitated it. - The Post-Standard

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QB Garrett Shrader, Syracuse
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02/28/23 - OG Zak Zinter, Sr/2024, Michigan + More +

There's good, and then there's an embarrassment-of-riches good. That's the state of the Michigan offensive line heading into the upcoming season. Michigan has won the Joe Moore Award in back-to-back seasons, getting a boost at center last season with transfer Olu Oluwatimi, who went on to win the Rimington Trophy as the nation's best center and the Outland, given to the nation's top interior lineman. The group helped the Wolverines average 238.9 rushing yards last season, ranking No. 5 nationally. Sherrone Moore, Michigan's offensive coordinator, who also coaches the offensive line, has built depth, adding three linemen from the transfer portal last December, and experience. Last season, because of injuries, there were five different starting-line combinations, with nine players making starts. Gone are Oluwatimi and left tackle Ryan Hayes, both participating in this week's NFL combine, but the transfer additions are LaDarius Henderson, Drake Nugent and Myles Hinton.

Among the experienced players returning are left guard Trevor Keegan and right guard Zak Zinter. Both assessed heading to the NFL and opted for another season at Michigan. Spring practice, which began a week ago and is paused while the university is on spring break, will be useful for getting some of the younger players, including Gio El-Hadi and Jeff Persi, who made starts last season, more practice reps. Also back are starters Karsen Barnhart and Trente Jones, who competed at right tackle. Henderson won't be able to practice with the team until the preseason, while he finishes his degree work at Arizona State, and Nugent and Hinton are missing spring practice while working through post-season surgeries. Henderson and Nugent are targeting starting spots in the fall. - Detroit News

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OG Zak Zinter, Michigan
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02/27/23 - CB Sevyn Banks, rSr/2023, LSU + More +

Cornerback Sevyn Banks declared for the 2023 NFL Draft instead of returning to LSU, sources told The Advocate. Banks, a former Ohio State transfer, had one more season of eligibility. Banks transferred to LSU last spring after starting his career at Ohio State. He missed the first three games as he recovered from an injury, then Banks suffered a bruised spinal cord when he made a tackle on the opening kickoff Oct. 1 against Auburn. He did not play the rest of the season.

As a fifth-year senior, Banks did not have to formally submit his name for the draft by the Jan. 16 underclassmen deadline. He still made his decision around then, a source said. Though widely thought Banks had returned to LSU because he never made a public announcement, the team knew of his choice. Banks plans to participate in LSU's Pro Day next month, a source said. It'll be the first chance to see him work out since he was taken off the field on a stretcher after the kickoff at Auburn. He did not dress for another game as he recovered, and the former Ohio State starter is now trying to reach the NFL after two injury-marred seasons. Banks was a four-star recruit and the No. 221 overall player in the 2018 class, according to the 247Sports composite rankings, out of Jones High School in Orlando, Florida. He appeared in every game his sophomore year at Ohio State before turning into a starter with early-round draft potential. - Baton Rouge Advocate

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CB Sevyn Banks, LSU
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02/27/23 - QB Shedeur Sanders, Sr/2025, Colorado + More +

When asked by reporters for a fair quarterback comp for incoming CU quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the new QB1 and son of first-year coach Deion Sanders, Buffs wide receivers coach Brett Bartolone went long. And Strong. As in, former Nevada great Carson Strong. "As far as arm talent goes (the younger Sanders) is as good as I've seen at this level," Bartolone said during a meet-the-assistants news conference for Coach Prime's new hires this past Thursday, the staff's first engagement with Colorado media. "I've been around guys (such as) Carson Strong, who was a two-time (first-team) Mountain West player at Nevada. And I mean, (Strong) could touch anywhere on the field (with a ball) … "(Sanders) understands what defenses are trying to do to him. You know, as a quarterback, he has a very, very high IQ level, he really does." With Sanders, Buffs fans would happily take the second coming of Cam Ward, especially as their backstories share more than a few parallels.

Like the younger Sanders, Ward is a talented Texan who transferred from an FCS power (Incarnate Word) to the Pac-12 (Washington State), only his move was between the 2021 and '22 seasons. And like Sanders now, there were questions as to whether the latter would have the same success at Wazzu as he did against lower-level competition. The short version? Ward delivered. After throwing for 47 scores and 4,678 yards at the FCS level in 2021, the young quarterback had 3,231 yards through the air with 23 TD passes during his first season with the Cougars last fall, helping steer Wazzu to a win at Wisconsin, a 7-6 record and a berth in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl. Coming off a 1-11 season, Buffs fans would savor seven wins and a postseason berth this fall. "Shedeur is good. He's been very good," Brandon Huffman, 247Sports.com national recruiting analyst, told The Post recently. "Sure, it will be a jump, like Cam Ward's was from Incarnate Word to Washington State. "The difference (between Sanders and former Michigan and UNC Bears QB Dylan McCaffrey is that) McCaffrey was pretty average in college and didn't 'wow' you, even in high school - at major events, he struggled and saw his stock plunge. Sanders is much better and (was) far more successful in college." - Denver Post

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QB Shedeur Sanders, Colorado
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02/26/23 - CB Amorion Walker, Jr/2026, Mississippi + More +

With Michigan losing cornerbacks DJ Turner and Gemon Green to the NFL this offseason, the team will be searching for a new starter in 2023 to play the opposite side of burgeoning sophomore Will Johnson. The Wolverines are only two practices into spring ball, but head coach Jim Harbaugh said Thursday they might have potentially found that player. "Amorion Walker is - I consider him a starter right now, just off the first few practices," Harbaugh said. Michigan doesn't have much experience at the corner position and has Walker primarily focusing on defense this spring. The rising sophomore is a former three-star receiver recruit from Louisiana who played just six snaps at corner in 2022 and five at receiver.

But his speed and length - he's listed at 6-foot-3 - make him an intriguing option on the outside heading into 2023. Earlier this month, Johnson posted a video on social media of Walker running the three-cone drill. The drill was timed by Michigan's coaching staff, and he clocked in at 6.10 seconds, which would be a record at the NFL Scouting Combine. "You just don't know for sure whether it's receiver or corner, but the length he has, the athletic ability that he has, speed that he has and the change of direction, mainly, for a guy that's 6-3, 6-4," Harbaugh said. "It's rare for a corner to be able to have that length and speed, but have that change of direction. So you just want to find out, and that's what I think what (defensive backs coach Steve Clinkscale) thinks. But we'll see if we're right." - Ann Arbor News

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CB Amorion Walker, Mississippi
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02/23/23 - ILB Jamon Dumas-Johnson, Sr/2025, Kentucky + More +

Georgia linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson, the second-leading tackler for 2022 national champions, was arrested Wednesday on charges of reckless driving and racing. According to Athens-Clarke County jail records, Dumas-Johnson was released Wednesday evening after posting a combined bond of $4,000 — $2,500 for allegedly racing on highways/streets and $1,500 for alleged reckless driving. The arrest on the misdemeanor charges followed an incident in Athens on Jan. 10, one day after the Bulldogs beat TCU 65-7 in the national championship game and Dumas-Johnson had four tackles.

Georgia said in a statement that the "alleged conduct" by Dumas-Johnson "does not reflect our program's values or the high standards we have established." "As this is an open matter involving a student, we are not able to provide any additional information at this time and will continue to cooperate fully with law enforcement," the statement added. Georgia is also dealing with the fallout from a fatal crash after the team's championship parade. Georgia offensive lineman Devin Willock and Chandler LeCroy, a 24-year-old who worked in the recruiting department, were killed in an early-morning accident on Jan. 15, while another player and another employee were in the vehicle and injured. Dumas-Johnson was a second-team selection to The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference team after recording 70 tackles with four sacks while starting every game in Georgia's second consecutive national championship season. - AP College Football

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ILB Jamon Dumas-Johnson, Kentucky
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02/18/23 - OT LaDarius Henderson, rSr/2024, Michigan + More +

Michigan has won back-to-back Joe Moore Awards given to the nation's top offensive line and got a huge boost last season from the transfer portal when Olu Oluwatimi arrived from Virginia and went on to win the Rimington Award as the nation's top center and the Outland as the top interior lineman. The line helped Michigan's run game rank No. 5 nationally in rushing last season averaging 238.9 yards a game, and several starters from that line return - guards Trevor Keegan and Zak Zinter, who both strongly considered leaving for the NFL, and right tackles Karsen Barnhart and Trente Jones, who both made starts.

Michigan went to the portal again and added experience in LaDarius Henderson (Arizona State), who likely will replace Ryan Hayes at left tackle; Drake Nugent (Stanford), who is penciled in at center; and Myles Hinton, also from Stanford. They will get significant work in the spring as they adjust to the offense and expect the backups to also get plenty of reps, while Keegan, Zinter, Barnhart and Jones use the time to hone their skills. This will be the first spring that offensive line coach Sherrone Moore will be the offensive coordinator after spend the last two seasons as co-coordinator. - Detroit News

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OT LaDarius Henderson, Michigan
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02/12/23 - ILB Keenan Pili, rSr/2025, Tennessee + More +

Tennessee's third spring football practice of the Josh Heupel era should be the most appealing one yet for defensive coordinator Tim Banks, who was having to play catch-up with Heupel and all the other assistants two years ago and had to work last spring with a secondary ravaged by injury. "It's exciting," Banks said this week in a news conference. "We just didn't have a bunch of guys in the back end last year, and they were beat up in the fall for the most part before camp started, so knowing that a lot of those guys will be able to participate is obviously a good thing because you invest. We talk about compound interest a lot, and obviously the more reps they can get, the better it is for them and the program. "Do we have everybody ready to go? We don't know, but at this point it seems on paper that we'll have our lion's share of guys who will be able to contribute this spring."

Tennessee had one of the biggest defensive meltdowns in program history last Nov. 19, traveling to South Carolina with the chance of continuing its College Football Playoff hopes only to get humiliated 63-38, surrendering 606 yards and 35 first downs. The Volunteers responded, however, by smothering Vanderbilt 56-0 in Nashville and then thumping Clemson 31-14 in the Orange Bowl to complete an 11-2 season. Edge rusher Byron Young and linebacker Jeremy Banks are among the seven Tennessee players who soon will be heading to Indianapolis for the NFL combine, but the cupboard isn't bare for the defense, which also has three newcomers via the transfer portal. The arrivals have occurred at each level - defensive lineman Omarr Norman-Lott from Arizona State, linebacker Keenan Pili from Brigham Young University and cornerback Gabe Jeudy-Lally also from BYU. - Chattanooga Times Free Press

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ILB Keenan Pili, Tennessee
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02/12/23 - QB Jordan Travis, rSr/2024, Florida State + More +

The Florida Senate voted unanimously to repeal the state's name, image and likeness (NIL) law Friday, sending the bill to Gov. Ron DeSantis' desk. The 34-0 vote on the Senate floor means the bill, HB 7B, went through two committees and both chambers in this week's special session without a single vote against it. "We've done the part to push the NCAA to stop abdicating their responsibility back to the states," said Sen. Corey Simon, the former Florida State football star. "And we're now putting it on the universities to educate our kids at what their best practices are going forward."

The bill is intended to fix a perceived disadvantage for Florida schools and their athletes caused by the current structure. Florida was one of the first states to vote to allow its college athletes to make money off their name, image and likeness when the law passed in 2020. But it included some restrictions. Teams and coaches, for example, can't facilitate players' deals. Some states never passed NIL laws. Others, including Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina, have repealed, suspended or loosened them. All three of those states have big-name programs that compete for recruits against programs like Florida and Florida State. - Tampa Tribune

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QB Jordan Travis, Florida State
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02/11/23 - CB Damarius McGhee, rJr/2026, Kansas + More +

There are going to be a host of newcomers on Kansas football's roster this fall. The Jayhawks announced some of those additions in the 2023 signing class in December. They announced more over the course of the past two-plus weeks. And those prospects, from the high school and college levels, covered a wide range of positions that address different needs Kansas has as it prepares for another run at a bowl game this upcoming college football season. Among the many topics head coach Lance Leipold addressed last week, he specifically addressed the recruitments of a number of the newcomers. Three in that group were Damarius McGhee, Jacoby Davis and Damon Greaves. And here's more on what Leipold had to say about them and how they fit into the Jayhawks' future.

McGhee was a 247Sports Composite four-star prospect out of high school, and according to 247Sports, the LSU transfer is a three-star talent out of the portal. It may not have worked out for McGhee at LSU, where he spent the first two years of his college career. There, he appeared in 13 games across two seasons and redshirted in 2022. But if it works out at Kansas, the Jayhawks are getting one of the top talents at the cornerback position from the 2021 recruiting class. Leipold said McGhee has great cover skills and his addition is a chance for the team to get better. "In fact, when I was on the road here last week I ran into a coach from (McGhee's) former school," said Leipold, speaking Feb. 1, "and he had nothing but positive things about (McGhee). And if (McGhee) stays healthy and does the things that he needs to, he doesn't see any reason why that (McGhee) won't be a fine addition and help this team." - Topeka Capital Journal

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