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  Sy'veon Wilkerson ran for 116 yards and a touchdown and Jackson State defeated Campbell 22-14 on Saturday in a nonconference matchup. The Tigers (7-0) ranked sixth in the FCS coaches poll, led 9-7 at the half on three Alejandro Mato field goals and extended that early in the third quarter when Shedeur Sanders connected with D.J. Stevens for a 48-yard touchdown. Wilkerson's 4-yad run, capping an eight-play, 81-yard drive with 3:17 left, clinched the game. Sanders was 23-of-31 passing for 233 yards. Hajj-Malik Williams threw for one touchdown and rushed for another for the Camels (4-3). - Jackson State/AP College Football

rJr/2025 RB SyVeon WilkersonGeorgia State
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  SEPT 19 SWAC FOOTBALL NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK: Jackson State's Sy'veon Wilkerson rushed 23 times for 141 yards and two touchdowns in his first start for Jackson State. He contributed scoring runs of 3 and 11 yards while also setting season highs in carries, rushing yards, and touchdowns during Jackson State's 66-24 win over Grambling State this past weekend. - SWAC Football

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  SEPT 12 SWAC FOOTBALL NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK: Jackson State's Sy'veon Wilkerson amassed 109 yards of total offense in Jackson State's 16-3 win over Tennessee State on Saturday. He tallied season highs in rushes (15), rushing yards (81), receptions (3) and receiving yards (28) as the Tigers defeated TSU at the Southern Heritage Classic. - SWAC Football

rJr/2025 RB SyVeon WilkersonGeorgia State
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  SEPT 12 PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORABLE MENTION: Gavin Pringle, Bucknell, Sr., DB, Baltimore, Md./Mount St. Joseph Academy,...Pringle had an interception return of 17 yards and posted four pass breakups in Bucknell's loss at VMI. He also made three tackles. - Patriot League Football

rSr/2025 CB Gavin PringleGeorgia State
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  SEPT 12 PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: TyGee Leach, Lehigh, Sr., DB, Norristown, Pa./Malvern Prep,...Leach recorded career-highs in tackles (14) and TFLs (3.0) to lead the Mountain Hawks' defense in a 21-19 victory at Georgetown...He made the key play in Lehigh's stop of Georgetown's game-tying two-point conversion attempt, stringing the play out wide so Trevor Harris and others could make the tackle short of the goal line...Leach was part of a Lehigh defense that kept GU off the scoreboard for the first 28:56 of the second half. - Patriot League Football

rSr/2024 SS TyGee LeachGeorgia State
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  Darren Grainger threw for a pair of touchdowns and Tucker Gregg ran for two scores and Georgia State held off Georgia Southern 41-33 on Saturday. The Panthers (2-4, 1-1 Sun Belt Conference) built a pair of 17-point leads at 27-10 and 34-17 before Georgia Southern (3-3, 0-2) closed to within four when Kyle Vantrease threw a 15-yard scoring pass to Khaleb Hood with 7:29 left in the third quarter, Five minutes later, Vantrease threw a 24-yard touchdown to Amare Jones and the extra-point was blocked to reduce the deficit to 34-30. The Panthers countered, and Tucker Gregg's 33-yard scoring run sealed it.

Gregg ran for 111 yards on 22 carries, and Jamyest Williams totaled 129 yards on 16 carries and a touchdown. With 335 yards rushing, the Panthers have run for 200-plus yards in 12 of the last 14 games. Grainger has accounted for 34 touchdowns in 16 starts (30 passing, four rushing) since taking over the starting role in the third game last year. Vantrease threw for 359 yards and three touchdowns but tossed four interceptions. Georgia State has won three in a row over Georgia Southern and holds a 6-3 series lead, which began in 2014. - Georgia State/AP College Football


rSr/2024 QB Darren GraingerGeorgia State
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  CJ Beasley ran 24 yards for the go-ahead touchdown in the final minute, leaping over a defender on the way to the end zone, and Coastal Carolina defeated Georgia Southern 34-30 on Saturday night in a game that saw three lead changes in the final six minutes. Beasley's run capped a 485-yard offensive performance by the Chanticleers (5-0, 2-0 Sun Belt) that was highlighted by Grayson McCall's four touchdowns - three passing and one on the ground. McCall hit Jared Brown for 61 yards and a touchdown with 5:55 remaining in the fourth quarter that gave the Chanticleers their first lead - 28-27 - since early in the second quarter. After the Eagles regained the lead on a field by Alex Raynor, McCall led the Chanticleers 82 yards in 1:23, twice converting on third down prior to Beasley's go-ahead score with 38 seconds remaining.

On Georgia Southern's final possession, Coastal's JT Killen had a sack and Kyle Vantrease threw incomplete three times. Vantrease finished with 26 completions in 43 attempts for 284 yards. He threw two TD passes but had two turnovers - a fumble and an interception. Jalen White had 145 yards rushing with one touchdown on 18 carries for the Eagles (3-2, 0-1). McCall was 23-of-34 passing for 335 yards, Brown had five catches for 139 yards and Beasley 64 rushing yards on 12 carries. - Coastal Carolina/AP College Football


rSr/2025 RB CJ BeasleyGeorgia State
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  Darren Grainger ran for a touchdown and threw for another as Georgia State repelled Army on Saturday for a 31-14 win, the Panthers' first of the season. After a Michael Hayes field goal opened the scoring, a shanked punt gave the ball back to the Panthers (1-4) at the Army 38 with Grainger scoring on a 13-yard keeper. Jamyest Williams' 33-yard burst up the middle was good for a 17-0 halftime lead after Army (1-3) turned the ball over on downs. After Army closed within three in the second half, the Panthers scored two late touchdowns. Army scored on its first drive of the second half on Tyhier Tyler's 1-yard run. A Panthers field-goal attempt went off the right upright and Tyler scored on a 5-yard keeper on the first play of the fourth quarter.

Army got the ball back after a fumble but the Black Knights were stopped on fourth-and-goal from the Georgia State 1. The Panthers had to punt from their end zone but Army, after taking over from its 45, failed on a fake punt on fourth-and-11 with the Panthers then clinching the win on Grainger's 57-yard touchdown pass to Ja'Cyais Credle with three minutes left. Georgia State's Tucker Gregg added a 56-yard touchdown, his school-record 20th rushing score to break a tie with Tra Barnett (2016-19). Gainger threw for 157 yards and ran for another 48. Gregg rushed for 124 yards on 16 carries and Williams had 106 yards on 12. Jordan Veneziale sparked the Georgia Southern defense with two fumble recoveries, one coming deep in Panthers territory in the final minute of the first half. Tyler had 110 yards rushing on 19 carries. - Georgia State/AP College Football


rSr/2024 QB Darren GraingerGeorgia State
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  Georgia State's defense kept losing its impact players Saturday against Charlotte. All-conference linebacker Blake Carroll suffered a serious lower body injury, was carted to the locker room and came back to the sidelines on crutches. By the end of the game the Panthers were without cornerback Quay White, safety Antavious Lane and safety Jacorey Crawford. - Atlanta Journal Constitution

rSr/2024 ILB Blake CarrollGeorgia State
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  Blake Carroll has become one of the more valuable members of the Georgia State defense. A senior outside linebacker from Lawrenceville, Carroll was an All-Sun Belt selection last year and was named to the preseason all-conference team earlier this month. Not bad for guy whose career almost didn't get off the ground. When he arrived at Georgia State as a freshman from Mountain View High School, Carroll and coach Shawn Elliott didn't really see eye-to-eye about a lot of things. It's the sort of clash that easily could have led to internal strife or a move to the transfer portal.

"I just had to realize I'm part of a team, and I'm here for the team. That's all I had to adjust to." "Blake came in, and he was hard-headed," Elliott said. "He didn't like academics. He didn't like structure. He didn't like discipline. I guess he was used to getting rubbed on the back and told how great he was, and I was a different guy, so he and I butted heads early in his career." Carroll admitted as much. But he also was smart enough to recognize the need to reassess the situation and make the appropriate changes if he wanted to stick around and contribute. "I will say that coming in, everybody was the guy in high school," Carroll said. "I just had to humble myself. I wouldn't say I thought I was bigger than the team, but I did think I was going to play a bigger role than I did at the time. I just had to realize I'm part of a team, and I'm here for the team. That's all I had to adjust to." - Atlanta Journal Constitution


rSr/2024 ILB Blake CarrollGeorgia State
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  Georgia State returns one of the nation's top running back tandems in All-Sun Belt Conference seniors Tucker Gregg and Jamyest Williams, headlining a talented position group for the Panthers, who open the season Sept. 3 at South Carolina. Under sixth-year head coach Shawn Elliott, Georgia State Looking to build on its streak of three straight bowl berths. The Panthers return 18 starters from last year's squad that won a school-record eight games, capped by a dominating 52-10 win over Ball State in the TaxAct Camellia Bowl for the program's second straight bowl victory. A big part of that success has been the Georgia State rushing attack as the duo of Gregg and Williams combined for 1,812 yards and 18 touchdowns in 2021, helping the Panthers rank No. 8 in FBS in rushing with 226.4 yards per game.

After leading the team with 953 yards (third in the Sun Belt) and nine touchdowns last fall, Gregg is the No. 3 rusher in GSU history with 1,560 yards. Williams adds speed and explosiveness, rushing for 859 yards and nine touchdowns while averaging a school-record 6.71 yards per carry, the sixth-best mark in FBS. The former cornerback has gained 1,112 yards in 21 games since moving to offense midway through the 2020 season. But another name to watch in the backfield is junior Marcus Carroll, who had a strong spring, when he was named the team's Top Offensive Player of the spring. "This is one of the deepest groups of backs I've ever had in my years of coaching," Elliott said. - Georgia State Football


rSr/2023 RB Jamyest WilliamsGeorgia State
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  2022 PRESEASON ALL-PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL TEAM (COACHES): DB TyGee Leach, Lehigh, Sr.,...Leach enters his senior campaign as a returning two-time first-team all-league honoree. He started all 11 games in 2021, tying for the team lead with 69 tackles, while adding a team-best eight pass breakups. - Lehigh Football

rSr/2024 SS TyGee LeachGeorgia State
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  2022 PRESEASON ALL-PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL TEAM (COACHES): DB Gavin Pringle, Bucknell, Sr.,...Pringle started the first five games of the 2021 season before missing time with injury, but the Baltimore, Md. native tied for the team lead with five pass breakups and registered 18 tackles while playing at strong safety and cornerback. Pringle was voted to the All-Patriot League Team as both a freshman and sophomore, earning First Team honors in the 2021 spring season after posting 21 tackles and 16 solo stops. He logged six tackles and an interception in the Patriot League championship game and started all four contests.

As a rookie in 2019, Pringle started the final seven games of the season and recorded 11 pass breakups. His 57 tackles (41 solo) ranked third among Bison defensive backs. In the 2019 season opener at Temple, Pringle returned his first career interception 36 yards for a touchdown. He later ran back a fumble 55 yards for a score in a win over Georgetown. For his career, Pringle has totaled 96 tackles, two interceptions, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. - Bucknell Football


rSr/2025 CB Gavin PringleGeorgia State
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  2022 PRESEASON ALL-SOUTHERN CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM (COACHES): OL Fred Norman, R-So., ETSU,...Started all 13 games on the offensive line for the Bucs in 2021… Aided in blocking for one of the most historic running performances in program history with 2,775 rushing yards and 32 touchdowns … Blocked for 11 100+ yard rushing games, including seven games with over 200 yards on the ground. - East Tennessee State Football

rSr/2025 OT Fred Norman Jr.Georgia State
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  2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: C Malik Sumter, Georgia State,...Sumter has started 41 straight games, blocking for the top four rushing seasons in program history and helping Georgia State average 222 yards rushing per game since he moved into the starting lineup in 2018. In 2021, Sumter served as a team captain and earned second-team All-Sun Belt Conference honors while paving the way for the No. 8 rushing attack in FBS as the Panthers averaged 226.4 yards per game. - Georgia State Football

rSr/2023 C Malik SumterGeorgia State
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