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03/01/21 - Tre Walker, Sr/2022, Idaho + More +

MARCH 1 BIG SKY DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Tre Walker, Jr., LB, Idaho,...Linebacker Tre Walker was a force on defense for the Vandals, as he picked up his first ROOT SPORTS Defensive Player of the Week accolade. The junior tied for a team-high 15 tackles (10 solo, 5 assisted), had an 11-yard sack, and forced a fumble. Walker's defensive impact helped hold No. 12 Eastern Washington to 14 points on offense, as Idaho won its season opener, 28-21. Other Nominees, Defense: Anthany Smith, EWU; Kamdan Hightower, NAU; Conner Mortensen, WSU. - Big Sky Conference Football

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ILB Tre Walker, Idaho
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02/28/21 - Mike Beaudry, rSr/2022, Idaho + More +

Mike Beaudry passed for 296 yards and two touchdowns, including a 25-yarder to Hayden Hatten in the closing seconds, and Idaho beat Eastern Washington 28-21 on Saturday in the season opener for both teams in a season delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Beaudry completed 22 of 45 and threw one interception and Hatten finished with six receptions for 138 yards. Beaudry threw a 14-yard TD pass to Cutrell Haywood to make it 21-all with 5:42 left in the third quarter. Neither team scored again until he led an eight-play, 68-yard drive capped by Hatten's touchdown reception that gave the Vandals their first lead of the game with 54 seconds to play. Eric Barriere was 32-of-57 passing for 339 yards and two touchdowns with an interception for Eastern Washington. - Idaho/AP College Football

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QB Mike Beaudry, Idaho
News Source: Idaho/AP College Football
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08/02/20 - Christian Elliss, rSr/2021, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT ALL-BIG SKY FIRST TEAM: Christian Ellis, Idaho, Sr.,...Ellis was First Team All-Big Sky in 2019...started 11 games, primarily at outside linebacker...led the Vandals with 4.5 sacks...finished second on the squad with 104 total tackles...also finished second on the team with 12.5 tackles for loss...one of three Vandals to record and interception and a fumble recovery in 2019...recorded 10-plus tackles in six of the final seven games of the season. - Idaho Football

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OLB Christian Elliss, Idaho
News Source: Idaho Football
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08/02/20 - Tre Walker, Sr/2022, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT ALL-BIG SKY FIRST TEAM: Tre Walker, Idaho, Jr.,...Walker was Second Team All-Big Sky Inside Linebacker in 2019...started all 12 games...led the Vandals with 138 total tackles, tied for the sixth most in a single season in program history...also led the Vandals with 74 solo tackles...also recorded nine tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks...recorded double-digit tackles in eight games, including a 16-tackle performance against Sacramento State (Nov. 16). - Idaho Football

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ILB Tre Walker, Idaho
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08/02/20 - Nick Romano, rSr/2024, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT ALL-BIG SKY SECOND TEAM: KR Nick Romano, Idaho, Soph.,...Romano was First Team All-Big Sky Kick Returner in 2019...appeared in all 12 games, starting five...topped the 100-yard mark twice, including a season-best performance of 154 yards in the season finale at NAU (Nov. 23)...finished with 286 all-purpose yards against the Lumberjacks, the fourth most by a Vandal in a single game in program history. - Idaho Football

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RB Nick Romano, Idaho
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08/02/20 - Tyrese Dedmon, rSr/2022, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT ALL-BIG SKY SECOND TEAM: Tyrese Dedmon, Idaho, Sr.,...Dedmon started all 12 games in 2019...finished third on the team with 60 total tackles...tied for the team-high with two interceptions on the year...recorded a season-high of nine tackles against Eastern Washington (Sept. 21). - Idaho Football

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SS Tyrese Dedmon, Idaho
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08/02/20 - Jonah Kim, Sr/2022, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT ALL-BIG SKY THIRD TEAM: Jonah Kim, Idaho, Sr.,...Kim appeared in all 12 games in 2019, starting two...made his Vandal debut at Penn State (Aug. 31), making three tackles...made a season-high five tackles twice, against Northern Colorado (Sept. 28) and NAU (Nov. 23)...picked up 4.5 tackles-for-loss and 2.0 sacks. - Idaho Football

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DT Jonah Kim, Idaho
News Source: Idaho Football
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08/02/20 - Logan Floyd, rSr/2023, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT ALL-BIG SKY THIRD TEAM: Logan Floyd, Idaho, Jr.,...Floyd appeared in 11 games in 2019, starting 10, on the offensive line...Started all 11 games on offensive line in 2018...Phil Steele Freshman All-America First Team...played on 964 of 975 snaps...team's highest-graded offensive lineman in three games. - Idaho Football

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C Logan Floyd, Idaho
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08/02/20 - Charles Akanno, rSr/2022, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT ALL-BIG SKY SECOND TEAM: Charles Akanno, Idaho Sr.,...Akanno started the first eight games in 2019 before sustaining a season-ending injury...was having an exceptional season prior to injury, and still finished the year first on the team with four forced fumbles and 13.5 tackles for loss, and second with 3.5 sacks. - Idaho Football

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OLB Charles Akanno, Idaho
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07/28/20 - Christian Elliss, rSr/2021, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT PRESEASON ALL-FCS THIRD TEAM: LB Christian Ellis, Idaho, Sr.,...First Team All-Big Sky in 2019...started 11 games, primarily at outside linebacker...led the Vandals with 4.5 sacks...finished second on the squad with 104 total tackles...also finished second on the team with 12.5 tackles for loss...one of three Vandals to record and interception and a fumble recovery in 2019. - Idaho Football

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OLB Christian Elliss, Idaho
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07/28/20 - Tre Walker, Sr/2022, Idaho + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT PRESEASON ALL-FCS FOURTH TEAM: LB Tre Walker, Idaho, Jr.,...Walker started all 12 games in 2019...led the Vandals with 138 total tackles, tied for the sixth most in a single season in program history...also led the Vandals with 74 solo tackles...also recorded nine tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks...Second Team All-Big Sky. - Idaho Football

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ILB Tre Walker, Idaho
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07/22/20 - Caleb Lightbourn, rSr/2022, Idaho + More +

Lightbourn, a transfer from Nebraska, is built more like Beavers outside linebacker Hamilcar Rashed Jr. While at Camas High School earlier in his career, Lightbourn once pitched coach Jon Eagle to let him try a 50-yard field goal. "When you get a quarterback sack," Eagle told Lightbourn. "He sat there for three or four seconds, and says, 'Well, I'd have to play defense.' I said, 'That's exactly right.' He said, 'I'll take a pass on that." Lightbourn is a big guy. Maybe not big enough to play defense, but big enough to know when there's a problem. Two years ago during his third year at Nebraska, it hit Lightbourn that not all was right. Shortly after he was replaced as the Cornhuskers' regular punter, Lightbourn sensed he was having mental issues.

As he recently revealed on social media, Lightbourn noticed he was gaining weight and lying in bed for most of the day. It was a change from the "happy kid" Lightbourn described himself as growing up in Long Beach, California, and Camas. "I knew I had an issue, but I couldn't figure out what it was," Lightbourn said. Lightbourn recently revealed his bout with depression because of current circumstances regarding the pandemic and racial injustice. "In these types of trying times, people can feel alone or feeling depressed or whatever it is," Lightbourn said. "People need to know it's not just them, and to let them know they're not alone in this. I felt confident enough now to come out and say it." - The Oregonian

rSr/2022 P Caleb Lightbourn, Idaho
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06/19/20 - Jeff Cotton, rSr/2020, Idaho + More +

University of Idaho football's senior wide receiver Jeff Cotton is getting his chance to compete in the National Football League. Cotton officially signed with the Los Angeles Chargers as a free agent after going undrafted in the 2020 NFL draft. In his senior season, Cotton led the Big Sky Conference with 88 receptions and the Football Championship Subdivision with 8.8 receptions per game. "It just feels amazing. So much work, time and dedication has gone into this whole process and it has been a long hard process," Cotton said. "To finally be able to say that I'm getting the opportunity to play in the NFL means the world." Cotton had the opportunity to talk to a Chargers scout during the Hula Bowl in January. Cotton and the scout kept in contact a few times after meeting. "As we got closer to the draft, my agent told me (the Chargers) were one of the three teams I had a chance to go to," Cotton said. - Idaho Statesman

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WR Jeff Cotton, Idaho
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04/13/20 - Mason Petrino, Sr/2020, Idaho + More +

Former Idaho quarterback Mason Petrino will add to his family's coaching legacy. According to his Twitter account, the son of eighth-year Idaho coach Paul Petrino has landed a gig as an offensive graduate assistant at Lamar University (Texas), where he'll work under first-year coach Blane Morgan, who previously served for five seasons as San Diego State's quarterbacks coach. Mason Petrino, who graduated from Pullman High School in 2016, started 21 games at quarterback for the Vandals in his last two years after mostly being employed as a flex offensive player in his early Idaho days. He ended his senior campaign with a near-perfect performance - a 563-yard, seven-touchdown send-off in a memorable 60-53 overtime win at Northern Arizona. He was tabbed Big Sky Player of the Week and named an honorable mention on the all-league team afterward. In 2019, Petrino passed for 2,106 yards, 17 touchdowns and nine interceptions on a 62.4% completion rate. - Spokesman-Review

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QB Mason Petrino, Idaho
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11/27/19 - Christian Elliss, rSr/2021, Idaho + More +

2019 ALL-BIG SKY CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): Outside Linebacker, Christian Ellis, Junior, Idaho,...Elliss recorded 9.5 tackles per game, the sixth best mark in the league. He also recorded 12.5 tackles for loss, the fifth best total in the Big Sky. Elliss stepped up in conference play, averaging 11.2 tackles per game, and finished with 10.5 tackles for loss in just eight games. - Idaho Football

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