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 Draft Scout College Football Player News: Rutgers
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  11/28/21 - Shawn Bowman, rSr/2024, Rutgers, 6-5, 249 (DS#75 TE) + More +

  2021 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL THIRD TEAM (COACHES): Shawn Bowman, Maine, TE, Jr.,...Bowman proved to be a key weapon on offense for the Black Bears as he finished the season with career-highs in both receptions (24) and receiving yards (282) while adding a career-best four touchdowns. - Maine Football

(DS#75 TE) rSr/2024 TE Shawn Bowman, Rutgers
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  11/13/21 - Isaih Pacheco, Sr/2022, Rutgers, 5-10, 222 (DS#35 RB) + More +

  Rutgers coach Greg Schiano started Saturday without his top three linebackers. Six turnovers and a a nifty trick play later, the Scarlet Knights celebrated a possible program-changing victory. Isaih Pacheco scored twice in the first quarter and Rutgers scored 17 points off turnovers, routing Indiana 38-3 to move within one win of becoming bowl eligible for the first time since 2014. "I'm excited, our guys are fighting," Schiano said. "We want to write that story at the end of the year and now we have a chance. We'll see what we can do." For the Scarlet Knights (5-5, 2-5 Big Ten), this wasn't just another win.

It was their most lopsided victory in conference play since joining the Big Ten - easily surpassing the previous mark of 22 points against Indiana in 2015. Now comes the hard part - beating either No. 23 Penn State or Maryland to finish the job. Rutgers earned some style points, too, when quarterback Noah Vedral threw a backward pass to offensive tackle Raiqwon O'Neal, who caught the ball around the 12-yard line and dove toward the pylon for a 7-yard TD run and a 31-3 lead in the third quarter. - Rutgers/AP College Football

(DS#35 RB) Sr/2022 RB Isaih Pacheco, Rutgers
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  11/03/21 - Adam Korsak, rSr/2023, Rutgers, 6-1, 187 (DS#3 P) + More +

  NOV 1 BIG TEN CO-SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Adam Korsak, Rutgers, P – Sr. – Melbourne, Australia – Maribyrnong College (Melbourne, Australia),...Punted six times for 282 net yards (47.0 avg.) and did not allow a punt return in Rutgers' 20-14 win at Illinois...Registered three 50-plus-yard punts and landed three punts inside the 20. Downed punts at the 20, 15, 4 and 1. Has now dropped four punts at the 1-yard line this season and has not registered a touchback in 94 consecutive punts dating back to 2019...Has led Rutgers' punt unit to the No. 1-ranked net punting average in the nation (46.6)...Earns the second Special Teams Player of the Week honor of his career and his second of the season...Last Rutgers Special Teams Player of the Week: Aron Cruickshank (Sept. 20, 2021). - Big Ten Football

(DS#3 P) rSr/2023 P Adam Korsak, Rutgers
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  10/30/21 - Noah Vedral, rSr/2024, Rutgers, 6-1, 200 (DS#999 QB) + More +

  Noah Vedral threw for 138 yards and rushed for a touchdown to lead Rutgers past Illinois 20-14 on Saturday. Isaih Pacheco rushed 21 times for 91 yards and Kyle Monangai ran 15 times for 77 yards and a touchdown for Rutgers (4-4, 1-4 Big Ten). Brandon Peters, starting for the injured Art Sitkowski, was 14 of 19 passing for 190 yards and two touchdowns for Illinois (3-6, 2-4), including a 52-yard TD pass to Isaiah Williams. Williams caught 3 passes for 67 yards and the touchdown. Daniel Barker caught 2 passes for 47 yards and a touchdown. Chase Brown carried 18 times for 67 yards for the Illini.

Rutgers put the game away in the second half. Vedral ran it in from 15 yards out early in the fourth quarter to give the Scarlet Knights a 17-14 lead. Valentino Ambrosio kicked a 25-yard field goal with 3:58 left in the game to make the score 20-14. Illinois was unable to muster much on offense in the second half after leading 14-10 at the half. Vedral left the game early in the first quarter with an unspecified injury and was replaced by Cole Snyder. Vedral returned midway through the second quarter after spending several minutes in the injury tent. - Rutgers/AP College Football

(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Noah Vedral, Rutgers
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  10/04/21 - Taj Harris, rSr/2024, Rutgers, 6-1, 180 (DS#999 WR) + More +

  Syracuse wide receiver Taj Harris plans to transfer. Orange coach Dino Babers confirmed Monday that the junior has decided to enter the transfer portal. Babers said he spoke to Harris before Saturday's game at Florida State and afterward. Babers said Harris, who did not travel to Florida with the team, decided "the best opportunity for him" would be to transfer. Harris, who also did not play in the previous game against Liberty, announced his decision Sunday on social media. He has two years of eligibility remaining.

The speedy 6-foot-2, 180-pound Harris set Syracuse rookie records for receptions and receiving yards in 2018 with 40 catches for 565 yards. He was a third-team, All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection in 2020, when he had 58 catches for 733 yards and five TDs, and had 16 catches for 171 yards in three games this season. He finishes his Syracuse career with 151 receptions for 2,028 yards and 10 touchdowns and four 100-yard games. The Orange (3-2, 0-1 ACC) have dropped to the bottom of the conference in passing offense, averaging 171 yards per game, and have only three scoring passes, the fewest in the league. - AP College Football

(DS#999 WR) rSr/2024 WR Taj Harris, Rutgers
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  09/20/21 - Aron Cruickshank, rSr/2023, Rutgers, 5-09, 165 (DS#120 WR) + More +

  SEPT 20 BIG TEN CO-SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Aron Cruickshank, Rutgers, WR - Jr. - Brooklyn, N.Y. - Erasmus Hall (N.Y.),...Recorded a career-long 62-yard punt return for a touchdown in Rutgers' 45-13 win over Delaware. Marked his first collegiate punt return for a touchdown and his fifth career kick return touchdown (four kickoff return touchdowns)...Finished the game with 151 all-purpose yards, including 77 punt return yards and 38 kickoff return yards. Added 26 receiving yards and 10 rushing yards on offense...Is tied for second among all active FBS players with five career kick return touchdowns (four kickoff return and one punt return)...Garners the second Special Teams Player of the Week honor of his career and his first since Nov. 18, 2019 while playing for Wisconsin...Last Rutgers Special Teams Player of the Week: Adam Korsak (Sept. 13, 2021). - Big Ten Football

(DS#120 WR) rSr/2023 WR Aron Cruickshank, Rutgers
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  09/18/21 - Isaih Pacheco, Sr/2022, Rutgers, 5-10, 222 (DS#35 RB) + More +

  Three games into the season, Rutgers found its big-play offense. Noah Vedral threw for two touchdowns and Isaih Pacheco ran for two more as the Scarlet Knights defeated Delaware 45-13 Saturday for its first 3-0 start since 2012. Vedral found Bo Melton on a 28-yard touchdown pass on his opening possession. He hit Brandon Sanders on a 62-yarder for the other TD in helping the Scarlet Knights take 35-10 half lead over their FCS opponent.

Vedral said offensive coordinator Sean Gleeson pushed the group in practice. "It's the little things; the little things," said Vedral, who was 21 of 25 for 323 yards. "We were close here and we were close there, kind of keeping us from kind of reaching this explosive potential that we always felt we had. So really big day for us to kind of put the pieces together and to see it come together on the field." The statistics were impressive. Rutgers had a season-high 497 yards in total offense and didn't turn the ball over for the third straight game. "I think any time you perform efficiently like that, that would help anybody's confidence," coach Greg Schiano said of Vedral. "Noah doesn't lack for confidence, though. He's a very confident guy because he prepares so well." Pacheco tallied on runs of 20 and 7 yards, while Aaron Young plowed into the end zone from 6 yards out for the Big Ten Conference team. Aron Cruickshank excited the crowd of 40,129 with a 62-yard punt return for a touchdown. - Rutgers/AP College Football

(DS#35 RB) Sr/2022 RB Isaih Pacheco, Rutgers
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  09/13/21 - Adam Korsak, rSr/2023, Rutgers, 6-1, 187 (DS#3 P) + More +

  SEPT 13 BIG TEN CO-SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Adam Korsak, Rutgers, P - Sr. - Melbourne, Australia - Maribyrnong College (Melbourne, Australia),...Set career highs in both gross (52.2) and net (51.7) punting averages in the Scarlet Knights' 17-7 win at Syracuse...Pinned 5-of-6 punts inside the 20 and registered four punts of 50-plus yards...Hit a 69-yard punt which tied for the seventh-longest punt in program history...Garners the first Special Teams Player of the Week honor of his career...Last Rutgers Special Teams Player of the Week: Janarion Grant (Sept. 12, 2016). - Big Ten Football

(DS#3 P) rSr/2023 P Adam Korsak, Rutgers
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  09/11/21 - Noah Vedral, rSr/2024, Rutgers, 6-1, 200 (DS#999 QB) + More +

  Rutgers took advantage of two Syracuse second-half miscues and downed the Orange 17-7 Saturday. An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Syracuse (1-1) coach Dino Babers after he disputed a personal foul call on Orange linebacker Mikel Jones gave Rutgers (2-0) a first down on the Syracuse 11. Kyle Monangai ran it in on the next play to give the Scarlet Knights a 7-0 lead with 6:46 to go in the third quarter.

A fumble by Syracuse quarterback Tommy DeVito was recovered on the Orange 10 and a 27-yard field goal by Rutgers' Valentino Ambrosio made it 17-7 with 8:23 remaining in the game. "I'm not quite sure what happened," Babers said of the unsportsmanlike call. "I thought I saw a play (on which Jones was called for the personal foul) and I'm trying not to get fined. I thought I saw a play where we tackled a guy and he got pushed back. I saw a personal foul called. I didn't see a targeting. "As far as I know, I know I've never had a personal foul penalty called on me as a head coach. I know I've never had one called on me as an assistant coach and I'm pretty doggone sure that I never had one called on me as a player and I've been playing since the 60s." Rutgers' 2-0 start is the team's first since 2014. Noah Vedral was 22 of 28 for Rutgers for 145 yards and a 30-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jovani Haskins. He was sacked four times by a Syracuse defense that held the Scarlet Knights to 198 yards. "I thought he did a heckuva job," Schiano said. "Took care of the football. Made plays when he had the chance. I thought he did exactly what he had to do." - Rutgers/AP College Football

(DS#999 QB) rSr/2024 QB Noah Vedral, Rutgers
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  09/04/21 - Aron Cruickshank, rSr/2023, Rutgers, 5-09, 165 (DS#120 WR) + More +

  Greg Schiano ran his team out of the tunnel in front of a sellout crowd at SHI Stadium, like he'd done so many times before during his 13 years as the Rutgers coach. Playing in front of fans for the first time since his highly anticipated return to Piscataway in December of 2019, things didn't go as planned. The 55-year-old coach led his team down the tunnel, veered right and fell to the turf after colliding with a TV cameraperson. "That was the low point of the day," Schiano said. "So that was good."

Aron Cruickshank had a career-high 206 all-purpose yards, the special teams made big plays, the defense was stifling and the offense managed the game as Rutgers opened the season with a 61-14 win over Temple on Saturday. Rutgers scored over 60 points for the first time since 2016, and first time against an FBS opponent since 2008. Noah Vedral was 15-of-27 passing for 138 yards and a touchdown for Rutgers. He also had a team-high 58 yards on eight rushes. Cruickshank returned four kicks for 113 yards and two punts for 55 yards, and he carried it three times for 24 and caught one pass for 14. - Rutgers/AP College Football

(DS#120 WR) rSr/2023 WR Aron Cruickshank, Rutgers
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  08/27/21 - Taj Harris, rSr/2024, Rutgers, 6-1, 180 (DS#999 WR) + More +

  Taj Harris is in a unique position to break a major Syracuse record this season. The junior wideout is just 1,124 yards away from Steve Ishmael's program record of career receiving yards. Harris was named to this year's Senior Bowl Preseason Watch List, along with the Biletnikoff Award Watch List, given to the nation's top wide receiver. Harris earned All-ACC third-team honors last season after finishing with 58 receptions for 733 yards and five touchdowns. Dino Babers even allowed Harris the opportunity to attend the ACC's media days last month, saying he's earned the honor after three productive seasons. Be on the lookout for Harris' production this season as he continues to climb the record books as the Orange's top option at receiver. - The Post-Standard

(DS#999 WR) rSr/2024 WR Taj Harris, Rutgers
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  08/26/21 - Peyton Powell, rSo/2024, Rutgers, 6-1, 181 (DS#999 QB) + More +

  Peyton Powell's time at Rutgers has ended. Citing Rutgers University's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the defensive back announced Tuesday that he has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Powell, a Texas native, transferred to Rutgers in December 2019. He did not see any playing time while with the program. "The University of Rutgers has made the COVID vaccine mandatory to attend school and play football, therefore I have no other choice but to enter my name into the transfer portal," Powell said in a tweet. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said at the start of training camp that Powell was not a part of the Scarlet Knights' roster. When asked again about Powell's status following Monday's practice, Schiano said that nothing had changed at that point. Powell joined Baylor as part of the 2019 recruiting class, but then left the program before the start of the season. He initially committed to Utah before flipping to Rutgers. - Asbury Park Press

(DS#999 QB) rSo/2024 QB Peyton Powell, Rutgers
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  08/18/21 - Shameen Jones, rSr/2023, Rutgers, 6-1, 173 (DS#163 WR) + More +

  Shameen Jones was a largely-forgotten member of a perennially-underachieving position group when Greg Schiano was re-hired at Rutgers roughly 20 months ago. Most players would have been on the fast track for the transfer portal in similar circumstances. But when Schiano promised the entire program a blank slate, Jones took it to heart. "When I arrived here, the opinions of Shameen were not super high," Schiano said. "But I just watched him in our workouts until we got shut down, and I thought he did everything really well." Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. But Jones' momentum did not slow, even if Schiano could not see the progress. That realization did not come until the Scarlet Knights returned to campus after three months away, when the coach walked down the tunnel from the Hale Center into SHI Stadium and barely recognized the former Cardinal Hayes star.

Jones looked bigger and stronger. When drills began, he proved he was faster and better. A remarkable career revitalization was well underway. Jones managed just two catches for 15 yards on one of the most talent-challenged teams in school history in 2019, but he was Rutgers' comeback player of the year in 2020, hauling in 34 catches for 378 yards and three touchdowns while starting all nine games. Now the Scarlet Knights are looking for Jones' true breakout campaign as they aim to take the next step as an offense and earn a bowl bid for the first time since 2014. "This is the best football I've ever played," Jones said. "[Schiano] has always pushed me to a higher level, even when sometimes I'm not at the standard he wants me to be. He finds different ways to get things out of me, push me to go harder." - Star Ledger

(DS#163 WR) rSr/2023 WR Shameen Jones, Rutgers
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  08/15/21 - Christian Izien, rSr/2023, Rutgers, 5-09, 199 (DS#11 SS) + More +

  Rutgers is hoping Christian Izien can pick up where he left off last season. The Scarlet Knights safety is confident he will. The Queens native started all nine contests in 2020 and piled up 66 tackles to go along with three fumble recoveries. But the 5-foot-10, 200-pound Izien showed clear progress over the course of the season and racked up four interceptions in the final three games. Izien believes he can continue that momentum once this season starts. "Definitely better preparation of course, but some scheme things as well," Izien said following Rutgers' practice on Monday. "Some things we're going to go forward with this season, just to help the team overall, help me be in a better position to make plays."

He became one of the most impactful playmakers for Rutgers' defense toward the end of last season. Izien earned his first career interception against Penn State, then had another in the Scarlet Knights' win over Maryland before picking off two more passes in the season finale against Nebraska. His four interceptions ranked tied for third in the Big Ten and eighth in the nation. - Asbury Park Press

(DS#11 SS) rSr/2023 SS Christian Izien, Rutgers
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  08/12/21 - Isaih Pacheco, Sr/2022, Rutgers, 5-10, 222 (DS#35 RB) + More +

  Isaih Pacheco had no idea about Rutgers' recent history of producing 1,000-yard rushers. But the Scarlet Knights senior running back set the goal anyway. "Absolutely, it's one of my goals because I had 1,000 yards when I was in high school," Pacheco said following Friday's training-camp practice. "But that was as a quarterback. Now I'm looking at the running back standard." Still, Pacheco was unaware of just how rare of a feat it's been at Rutgers over the past decade. No Rutgers player has cracked the 1,000-yard rushing plateau since Jawan Jamison tallied 1,075 yards in 2012. "It is kind of hard to believe," Pacheco said. "I didn't do my research on it because I just put my head down and work. But that's my goal, and I know that I'm going to get it because how hard I've been working." Since 2013, only 10 of the current 130 FBS college football teams haven't had a player rush for 1,000 yards in a season, an NJ Advance Media statistical analysis revealed.

Joining Rutgers on the list are Akron, Duke, FIU, Kent State, Miami-Ohio, Purdue, Syracuse, UMass and Washington State. Still, Rutgers coach Greg Schiano insists that's not how he'll ultimately judge Pacheco's success this season. "He can have a great year and not rush for 1,000 yards and he can have a not-so-great year and rush for 1,000 yards. I don't know if that's the gold standard," he said. "I want to see him do what he's capable of doing. I thought at times last year he did. And other times not as much. "And some of it wasn't directly his fault. We have to do a good job up front, and he has to trust the plays and be patient with the plays. And when he does that I think he's a really big-time running back. Strong, explosive, fast, tough - (he) has all the tools. And I know our whole staff is looking for him to put it together on a consistent basis. We've all seen flashes. I'd like to see it on a consistent basis, because if he does he'll be as good as there is." - Star Ledger

(DS#35 RB) Sr/2022 RB Isaih Pacheco, Rutgers
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