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  Rhode Island quarterback Kasim Hill has been granted an extension of eligibility waiver from the NCAA, meaning he will be back with the Rams for the 2023 season. The ruling officially came on Thursday, giving Hill a seventh season of eligibility. It is a significant development for the program, as Hill has been the team's starting quarterback for each of the last three seasons, appearing in 25 games since transferring from Tennessee. Rhode Island has a 16-9 record since he joined the program, including a 7-4 record each of the last two seasons. Hill needs five wins as a starter to pass the legendary Tom Ehrhardt for the most in program history. Ehrhardt was 20-6 from 1984-85. - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2024 QB Kasim HillRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM: Nick Correia, Rhode Island, OL, Jr.,...Nick Correia, A.J. Cornelius and Lorenzo Thompson represent 60 percent of Rhody's offensive line unit that blocked for the third-highest scoring offense in the league. The Rams piled up 30.6 points per game behind a balanced attack. Behind its line, URI ranked fourth in CAA Football in both rushing attack (168.8 yards per game) and passing attack (235.3 yards/game). The Rams were also fifth in the league with just 21 sacks allowed in 11 games. - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2024 OG Nick CorreiaRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM: Jordan Jones, Rhode Island, CB, Sr.,...Jones elevated his game at cornerback this season, leading the CAA with 15 total passes defended while averaging 1.36 passes defended per game. He had a conference-best 12 pass break ups and tied for third in the league with three interceptions, including an interception return for a touchdown. A Second Team Associated Press All-American last season, he finished his time in Kingston at URI's all-time record holder with 33 career passes defended. - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2023 CB Jordan JonesRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM: Ed Lee, Rhode Island, WR, Sr.,...Lee had a true breakout season in 2022, leading all CAA Football players with 908 receiving yards on 56 catches. He also had five touchdown catches, and the game-winning two-point conversion catch that ended the longest game in FCS history, a seven-overtime win at Monmouth. He ranked fourth in the league in catches and seventh in yards per catch (16.2). - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2023 WR Ed LeeRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM: Marques DeShields, Rhode Island, RB, Sr.,...DeShields had one of the greatest individual seasons ever by a Rhode Island running back in his lone year in Kingston. Despite not taking over as the starter for the Rams until the fourth game of the season, he was second in CAA with 1,187 rushing yards, 12 rushing touchdowns and 107.9 rushing yards per game. He had seven 100-yard games, including a 204-yard performance in the season finale against UAlbany. The graduate transfer was third in CAA with 14 total touchdowns, fourth in total points scored (84), fourth in all-purpose yards per game (126.3) and he tied the single-season rushing touchdown record, which was set in 1954 by Pat Abbruzzi. - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2023 RB Marques DeShieldsRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL THIRD TEAM: Ed Lee, Rhode Island, PR, Sr.,...As a punt returner, Lee ranked third in the CAA with 11.3 yards per punt return. He was 10th in the CAA in all-purpose yards per game with 96.9. - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2023 WR Ed LeeRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL THIRD TEAM: Evan Stewart, Rhode Island, LB, So.,...Stewart was second on the team and eighth in the CAA with 80 total tackles, despite missing one game, He was eighth in the conference with 8.0 tackles per game and ninth with 5.0 sacks. Stewart also had 6.0 tackles for loss, two fumble recoveries, one forced fumble and three pass break ups. - Rhode Island Football

Sr/2024 ILB Evan StewartRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL THIRD TEAM: Lorenzo Thompson, Rhode Island, OL, Jr.,...Nick Correia, A.J. Cornelius and Lorenzo Thompson represent 60 percent of Rhody's offensive line unit that blocked for the third-highest scoring offense in the league. The Rams piled up 30.6 points per game behind a balanced attack. Behind its line, URI ranked fourth in CAA Football in both rushing attack (168.8 yards per game) and passing attack (235.3 yards/game). The Rams were also fifth in the league with just 21 sacks allowed in 11 games. - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2024 OT Lorenzo ThompsonRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM: Jake Fire, Rhode Island, LB, Sr.,...Fire led the Rams and ranked third among all CAA Football players with 99 tackles, averaging 9.0 tackles per game. He started every game and also had 7.0 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, two fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles and one interception. - Rhode Island Football

rSr/2023 ILB Jake FireRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM: DB: Brent Jackson, Bucknell, Sr.,...It's the second Patriot League postseason award Jackson has collected in his career after he earned Academic All-League as a junior. The Denton, Texas native finished his senior campaign as the FCS leader in solo tackles per game (7.1) and ranked 12th in total tackles per game (10.1). Jackson was also outstanding in coverage, ending up tied for ninth in FCS pass breakups per game (1.4).

Jackson was especially strong over the second half of the season, grabbing four interceptions, forcing two fumbles and recording three sacks over his final six games. He registered double-digit tackles six times, including a career-high 16 with 12 solo stops vs. Colgate. In Bucknell's win over Lehigh, Jackson filled the stat sheet with a sack, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, an interception and a pass breakup, earning him the first of two back-to-back Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week awards. - Bucknell Football


rSr/2024 SS Brent JacksonRhode Island
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  NOV 21 NEC FOOTBALL PRIME PERFORMER: Malik Grant, SHU (RB, Sr.),...Grant turned in his sixth 100-yard rushing performance in the last eight contests after compiling 105 yards on 27 carries against LIU. The senior added a pair of touchdowns to finish with an NEC-best 14 scores (12 rushing, 2 receiving). - NEC Football

rSr/2025 RB Malik GrantRhode Island
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  NOV 21 PATRIOT LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORABLE MENTION: Brent Jackson, Bucknell, Sr., S, Denton, Texas/John H. Guyer,...Jackson finished with eight tackles, one sack, a forced fumble and a pass breakup in Bucknell's 24-13 victory over Marist. He helped the Bison defense limit the Red Foxes to 48 yards in the second half. - Patriot League Football

rSr/2024 SS Brent JacksonRhode Island
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  NOV 21 CAA FOOTBALL SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Oneil Robinson, Sr., S, Rhode Island (Hartford, Conn./Capital Prep),...Robinson fielded a blocked field goal by Westley Neal, Jr. and returned it 96 yards for a touchdown to help Rhode Island defeat UAlbany, 35-21. The return late in the second quarter gave the Rams a 21-7 advantage. Robinson also contributed six tackles, a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry on defense. - CAA Football

rSr/2023 SS Oneil RobinsonRhode Island
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  Marques DeShields ran for 204 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries, Kasim Hill threw two TD passes and Rhode Island beat Albany 35-21 Saturday in the season finale for both teams. Evan Stewart recovered a fumble in the end zone to make it 7-7 early in the second quarter. Hill hit Kahtero Summers for a 12-yard touchdown less than 3 minutes later and Dylan Brown blocked a short field-goal attempt that Oneil "Buzz" Robinson plucked out of the air and raced 96 yards for a TD that gave Rhode Island (7-4, 5-3 Colonial Athletic Association) a 21-7 lead at halftime. Hill threw a 7-yard TD pass to Darius Savedge to make it 28-14 in the third quarter and DeShields capped the scoring with a 3-yard touchdown run with 4:31 to play. Reese Poffenbarger passed for 248 yards and two touchdowns - including a 66-yarder to Jackson Parker that opened the scoring - for Albany (3-8, 2-6). - Rhode Island/AP College Football

rSr/2023 RB Marques DeShieldsRhode Island
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  2022 ALL-PSAC EASTERN DIVISION FIRST TEAM: RB Ja'Den McKenzie, West Chester, Jr.,...McKenzie makes his third straight appearance on the PSAC Eastern Division all-conference squad as well. He and Taylor are both three-time, first-team All-PSAC East honorees in their careers. He was the Eastern Division freshman of the year in 2019 as well. The powerful running back for the Golden Rams rushed for 706 yards on 177 attempts averaging 4.0 yards per carry. He rushed for seven touchdowns and caught another. Out of the backfield, he caught nine passes for 76 yards. - West Chester Football

rSr/2024 RB JaDen McKenzieRhode Island
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