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07/25/20 - Treshaun Hayward, rSr/2023, Arizona + More +

2020 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: LB Treshaun Hayward, Western Michigan,...A preseason All-America selection by Phil Steele (4th team) and a first team All-Mid-American Conference honoree by Phil Steele and Athlon Sports, Hayward enters 2020 as one of two returning players who recorded 130 or more tackles and 10.0 or more tackles for lost yardage in 2019. The 6-1, 225-pound Ypsilanti, Mich., product owns 179 career tackles, 12.5 tackles for lost yardage, 5.0 sacks, one pass breakup, one caused fumble, two fumble recoveries and one quarterback pressures. - Western Michigan Football

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OLB Treshaun Hayward, Arizona
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07/24/20 - Treshaun Hayward, rSr/2023, Arizona + More +

2020 BUTKUS AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Treshaun Hayward, Western Michigan,...A year ago, Hayward booked 142 tackles, 10.5 tackles for lost yardage and 5.0 sacks. Nationally, he ranked third in total tackles, sixth in total tackles per game (10.92) and tied for 16th in solo tackles per game (5.54). He is one of two returning players in 2020 who recorded 130 or more tackles and 10.0 or more TFL in 2019, joining Jahad Woods of Washington State (141 tackles & 10.0 TFL). - Western Michigan Football

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OLB Treshaun Hayward, Arizona
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07/21/20 - Roy Lopez, rSr/2021, Arizona + More +

Roy Lopez III, who was an All-Arizona center at Gilbert Mesquite before making the transition to defensive tackle at New Mexico State, announced Saturday he will play his final college season at Arizona. Lopez, 6-foot-2, 311 pounds, will be a fifth-year senior. He graduated from Mesquite in 2016. He spent the 2019 season as a redshirt, starting three of the four games he played in, before an injury ended his season. He had 11 tackles and two sacks Lopez was not not only All-Arizona in football but a state champion heavyweight wrestler in high school. He started every game for the Aggies both his sophomore and junior seasons in 2017 and '18. He led the team with 12.5 tackles for losses in 2018. His father, Roy Jr., is the head football coach at Tolleson. - Arizona Republic

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DT Roy Lopez, Arizona
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07/19/20 - Roy Lopez, rSr/2021, Arizona + More +

The Arizona Wildcats have added a few transfers this offseason and added their fifth on Sunday. The team announced the signing of New Mexico State graduate transfer defensive lineman Roy Lopez via Twitter. - Arizona Desert Swarm

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DT Roy Lopez, Arizona
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07/18/20 - Gary Brightwell, Sr/2021, Arizona + More +

2020 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD WATCH LIST: Gary Brightwell (Sr.), Arizona,...Brightwell finished his junior campaign with 66 carries for 390 yards and five touchdowns. He averaged 5.9 yards per carry and had a 94-yard touchdown run against Northern Arizona, which tied for the second-longest run in school history. For his career, Brightwell has 915 rushing yards and eight touchdowns on 157 carries, averaging nearly six yards per carry in his three years with the Wildcats. - Arizona Football

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RB Gary Brightwell, Arizona
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07/16/20 - DJ Williams, rSr/2024, Arizona + More +

2020 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD WATCH LIST: D.J. Williams (So.), Auburn,...Williams played in eight games as a freshman and rushed for 400 yards and two touchdowns. His breakout performance came on the road at No. 1 LSU when he rushed for a career-high 130 yards on 13 carries, averaging 10 yards per carry. He gained 104 all-purpose yards the next week against Ole Miss and scored his first career touchdown. He later added another touchdown against Samford. With 400 yards in his first season, Williams ranks 16th all-time among freshman running backs at Auburn. - Auburn Football

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RB DJ Williams, Arizona
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07/15/20 - Gary Brightwell, Sr/2021, Arizona + More +

Arizona Wildcats senior running back Gary Brightwell was named to the Doak Walker Award watch list, which was announced by the PwC SMU Athletic Forum on Wednesday. Entering his final season, Brightwell is expected to step in as the Wildcats' top rusher, a role that was designated for J.J. Taylor in the 2018 and '19 seasons. In 2019, Brightwell appeared in 11 games, including two starts, and rushed for 390 yards and five touchdowns on 66 carries. - Arizona Star News

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RB Gary Brightwell, Arizona
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07/15/20 - Treshaun Hayward, rSr/2023, Arizona + More +

The reigning Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year returns to Western Michigan this season, and if the college football analysts are correct, Treshaun Hayward's senior campaign should be another special one. Phil Steele selected the 6-foot-1, 225-pound linebacker as a Fourth Team All-American heading into 2020, marking Hayward's third preseason accolade, after the Ypsilanti native and Ann Arbor Skyline graduate earned first team honors on all-conferences lists from Steele and Athlon Sports. Hayward wrapped up his junior campaign ranked third nationally with 142 tackles, to go along with 10.5 tackles for loss, five sacks, one pass breakup, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. He joins Washington State's Jahad Woods as college football's only returning players to tally more than 130 tackles and 10 stops for loss. - Kalamazoo Gazette

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OLB Treshaun Hayward, Arizona
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07/13/20 - Roy Lopez, rSr/2021, Arizona + More +

The New Mexico State defense lost its most experienced defensive player and one of the best players on the roster, to the transfer portal. Aggies senior defensive lineman Roy Lopez announced on Monday that he plans to enter the transfer portal. Lopez was a four-year starter for the Aggies on the defensive line. He was limited to eight games last season after suffering a leg injury in Week 1 at Washington State. The Phoenix native announced his intention to transfer in the days following the Pac-12's announcement last week that the league plans to play a conference-only schedule, eliminating the Aggies Aug. 29 season opener at UCLA. - Las Cruces Sun News

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DT Roy Lopez, Arizona
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04/28/20 - Khalil Tate, Sr/2020, Arizona + More +

The Arizona Wildcats have had four players selected in the NFL draft in in past five years. Just four. No Wildcats were picked in the 2020 NFL draft. In 2019, defensive tackle P.J. Johnson was Arizona's lone pick. Johnson went to the Lions in the seventh round. In 2018, defensive back Dane Cruikshank went to the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round. No Wildcats were selected in the 2017 NFL draft. Khalil Tate was once considered a top prospect for the NFL. He didn't get picked in the 2020 NFl draft. Tate has agreed to terms with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent, as a wide receiver. Taylor has agreed to a deal with the New England Patriots. Whittaker has agreed to a deal with the Arizona Cardinals. Since 2010, Arizona has produced 15 picks in the NFL, the second-worst mark in the conference (Washington State has 12 during that time). - Arizona Republic

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QB Khalil Tate, Arizona
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03/21/20 - Khalil Tate, Sr/2020, Arizona + More +

Last August, before his roller coaster ride of a senior season began, Khalil Tate revealed that he had a Fathead of Donovan McNabb when he was younger. The former NFL quarterback caught wind of the Arizona QB's wall art via Twitter. McNabb responded in kind: "Appreciate you, young fella. Keep grinding." So began a relationship that, in McNabb's words, "came full circle" several months later. Tate's agent, Zeke Sandhu, reached out to McNabb, who resides in the Phoenix area. Sandhu asked McNabb if he could work with Tate as he prepared for the Wildcats' pro day and the 2020 NFL draft. McNabb gladly accepted the assignment. The six-time Pro Bowl selection believes in giving back. He also believes Tate - one of the most prolific yet polarizing players in UA football history - has untapped talent.

"Sometimes all you need is an extra push," McNabb said this week. "Some guidance to get you over the hump." Tate faces significant hurdles to prove he's more like the player who set multiple records as a sophomore than the one who lost his full-time job as a senior. The postponement of pro day, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, won't help. It would have given Tate a chance to show scouts what he's been working on with McNabb, on and off the field. Instead, because of the coronavirus pandemic, Tate and countless others must wait for another opportunity that might never come. "It's unfortunate what happened," McNabb said, "because he was ready. And he's gonna continue to be ready when the time comes." - Arizona Star News

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QB Khalil Tate, Arizona
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03/17/20 - Tristan Cooper, Sr/2020, Arizona + More +

Tristan Cooper was among the UA football players hoping to catch scouts' eyes at the university's now-canceled pro day. More than a half dozen Arizona football players were supposed to work out for NFL scouts at the UA campus Tuesday. For most of those Wildcats, it was their one and only chance to showcase their skills in front of the NFL community at large. It was the most important job interview of their lives. Instead, that opportunity has been put on indefinite hold. It might not ever happen. Long shots might never get a shot. The coronavirus pandemic has shut down the world of sports - including pro days for NFL hopefuls. Late last week, the league prohibited all in-person contact between draft-eligible players and club personnel. The decision, made in the interest of curtailing the spread of the virus, could be especially damaging for players on the margins who haven't had previous opportunities to get in front of pro scouts.

"I'm sure there's going to be a lot of players this year that are going to fall between the cracks," said Corey Williams, the agent for UA safety Tristan Cooper. For players such as receiver Cedric Peterson, defensive tackle Finton Connolly and Cooper, pro day was their chance to get noticed, make an impression or change a perception scouts might have had about them. "I'm lost right now," Cooper said from his hometown of El Paso. "I'm not going to lie - I've battled with some demons. It was already a stressful journey going through these couple months of working out, and to be hit by this? I don't even know how to describe it. "Doubt kicks in. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. I'm trying to stay positive and keep going, and whatever happens, happens." - Arizona Star

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SS Tristan Cooper, Arizona
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03/14/20 - Khalil Tate, Sr/2020, Arizona + More +

Arizona's pro day, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed because of ongoing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. The UA football program on Thursday indefinitely suspended all team activities, including spring practices. Practice was to have resumed Tuesday evening, following a week off for spring break, with pro day taking place in the morning. On Friday, the NFL sent a memo to its teams prohibiting "all in-person pre-draft visits involving draft-eligible players effective at the end of the business day, until further notice. Only one Arizona player, tailback J.J. Taylor, participated in the combine this year. Other players who conceivably could be drafted include quarterback Khalil Tate and cornerback Jace Whittaker. The latter participated in the East-West Shrine Bowl in January. - Arizona Star News

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QB Khalil Tate, Arizona
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02/23/20 - J.J. Taylor, rJr/2020, Arizona + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: J.J. Taylor, RB, Arizona,...Taylor, who was a first-team All-Pac-12 selection in 2018, ran for 721 yards and five touchdowns this season. He missed time with an injury, but still managed to average 4.9 yards per carry. Taylor also had a career-high 32 catches for 289 yards on the season. The running back from Corona, Calif., finished his career with 4,764 all-purpose yards, which ranks seventh all-time at Arizona. - Arizona Football

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RB J.J. Taylor, Arizona
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12/10/19 - Jace Whittaker, Sr/2020, Arizona + More +

2019 ALL-PAC-12 HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES): Jace Whittaker, RSr.,...The Arizona Wildcats placed five players on the Pac-12 Football All-Conference Team announced Tuesday. Whittaker finished with 55 tackles this season, along with three interceptions and six pass breakups. His 34 career pass breakups rank fourth all-time at Arizona. - Arizona Football

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