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 Draft Scout College Football Player News: Southern Methodist
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  Some things have gotten lost in translation between M'ba and his teammates, but two things have been apparent since the 6-foot-6, 313-pound junior college transfer stepped foot on campus in January: He has an infectious personality and a skillset to match it on the field. "Jeffrey's unique," edge defender Derick Hall said. "He lights up a room." A native of Gabon who moved to France when he was 4, M'ba has only been playing football for four years after growing up playing soccer. After dipping his toes into the sport in France, and quickly realizing his potential, M'ba moved stateside to pursue an opportunity on the gridiron. That ultimately led him to Independence Community College in Kansas, where he spent two seasons and emerged as the nation's No. 1 JUCO player in the 2022 class.

He signed with Auburn and arrived in the spring, but he did not participate in spring practices while recovering from a shoulder injury he sustained last season at Independence. Now he's fully recovered and participating in fall camp, and his presence has been unmistakable on the field-and not just because he rocks a dark visor on his helmet (and a blue streak through his hair under it) and the same No. 5 once sported by all-time Auburn great Derrick Brown. "Jeffrey looks good," Hall said. "He's raw, he's young - in the aspect of football age, let me say that. He's fairly new to this game. He's willing to work. One thing about Jeffrey - his attitude, his approach to the game. He studies, he loves us, he loves Auburn. Just having that attitude, you're going to come out here every day and obviously get better. - Birmingham News

(DS#36 DT) rSr/2026 DT Jeffrey Mba, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON ROTARY LOMBARDI AWARD WATCHLIST: Elijah Chatman, SMU, Sr DT,...In 2021, Chatman saw action in all 12 games, making 11 starts, and registered 40 tackles, including 10 TFLs for 39 yards and 2.5 sacks for 19. He added a team-high two fumble recoveries, a forced fumble and three quarterback hurries. For his efforts, Chatman was named second-team All-AAC. - SMU Football

(DS#35 DT) rSr/2024 DT Elijah Chatman, Southern Methodist
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  The buzz around M'ba has remained consistent since the spring, as the former No. 1 junior college prospect was sidelined to nurse a shoulder injury. But after missing the spring and going through summer workouts, he's expected to be a full go for fall camp. "If you talk about M'ba, it brings a smile to your face," Schmedding said. "His personality, No. 1. He lights up a room. And that positive energy is just contagious. There's no doubt about it. He loves football. He loves his teammates. He knows how to work. "I'm excited to see him in pads." A native of France, M'ba recorded 50 tackles and 15 tackles for loss in two seasons at Independence Community College. At 6-6, 315 pounds, M'ba has only been playing football for three seasons, but he has the upside to be one of Auburn's biggest contributors on defense. - Opelika-Auburn News

(DS#36 DT) rSr/2026 DT Jeffrey Mba, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON PHIL STEELE/DRAFT SCOUT IVY LEAGUE FIRST TEAM: Marques White, Dartmouth, Sr.,...A 6-2, 210-pound native of Glendale, Arizona, White led the Big Green and ranked among the top 10 in the Ivy League with 5.0 sacks and 9.5 tackles for a loss while accumulating 40 tackles from his linebacking position. - Dartmouth Football

(DS#48 DE) rSr/2027 DE Marques White, Southern Methodist
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  The biggest news of the day at the Miami Hurricanes' media day belonged to the biggest body - or at least close to it - in attendance. Miami Hurricanes left tackle Zion Nelson, a 6-5, 320-pound NFL prospect and projected first-rounder by several outlets, said he underwent surgery to remove "floating cartilage" in his left knee about three weeks ago and was given a six-to-eight-week timetable for making his return. Though he wouldn't give specifics, Nelson will likely miss the Sept. 3 opener against Bethune-Cookman. Nelson told the Miami Herald he would probably be in the weight room rehabbing and working out during Miami's opening fall camp practice Friday morning.

Nelson's backup, for now at least, is John Campbell, also 6-5 and 320 pounds. Campbell, a fifth-year redshirt junior, sat out the entire 2021 season with a torn ACL in his left knee that he said he sustained while falling during drills "just before fall camp." "These big guys need a tuneup every now and then,'' said UM coach Mario Cristobal, who noted that Campbell "is already in the groove. We expect John to be one of the best players in the conference, actually in the country. We think that highlly of him. He has a lot of the same traits that Zion has." "The position that those guys play, it comes with a lot. They both battled through some stuff." - Miami Herald

(DS#999 OT) rSr/2026 OT Zion Nelson, Southern Methodist
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  Tyler Van Dyke, from Glastonbury, Connecticut, worked with former NFL stars Peyton and Eli Manning, as well as some of the nation's finest college quarterbacks at the Manning Passing Academy this summer. He said he grew up "a huge Eagles" and "Donovan McNabb fan." "He was a role model for me just watching the games," Van Dyke told reporters at the ACC media days, eliciting a response on Twitter from McNabb, who posted a video of the quarterback. "You just never know who's watching you," McNabb said. "Be a pro at all times and stay on your grind." Known as a workout fanatic since his freshman year in 2020, Van Dyke thrives on pushing his body physically and mentally.

He said "probably 75 to 80 percent of the install of new coordinator Josh Gattis's offense is in," and that he has improved greatly in reading coverages and "understanding what the defense is going to do." This summer has been more organized with player-led 7-on-7s every Tuesday and Thursday and additional opportunities, though still limited, to work with coaches, per new NCAA rules. "Sometimes in games last year reading coverages would get to me and I would kind of go blind out there and not really understand what was going on," Van Dyke said. "There were a few times I saw it really well. I'm trying to get to that point where I'm really consistent." - Miami Herald

(DS#999 QB) rSr/2027 QB Tyler Van Dyke, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCHLIST: CB Charles Woods, West Virginia,...Played in 11 games at cornerback, including four starts and used on special teams in 2021...Finished with 31 tackles, including 22 solo stops, two tackles for loss, two interceptions, four pass breakups and two fumble recoveries...Strong finish to the year featured four tackles, an interception and fumble recovery against Minnesota in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. - West Virginia Football

(DS#127 CB) rSr/2024 CB Charles Woods, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: OT Zion Nelson, Miami,...A fourth-year junior from Sumter, S.C., Nelson has played in all 36 games since getting to Miami in 2019. The 6-foot-5, 316-pounder has started 32 contests, including all 12 in 2021 and all 13 in 2019. An All-ACC Honorable Mention last season, Nelson has helped the Hurricanes average 444.5 yards per game over the last two years. That figure includes 300.2 passing yards and 144.3 rushing yards per contest across 23 outings. - Miami Football

(DS#999 OT) rSr/2026 OT Zion Nelson, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON WALTER CAMP PLAYER OF YEAR PLAYER TO WATCH: Tyler Van Dyke, QB, sophomore, Miami (Fla.),...The 2021 ACC Rookie of the Year, Van Dyke threw for 2,931 yards and 25 touchdowns in just 10 games, nine of which he started. A five-time ACC Rookie of the Week, Van Dyke completed 62.3 percent of his passes, the sixth-best single-season mark in program history, and threw only five interceptions. - Miami Football

(DS#999 QB) rSr/2027 QB Tyler Van Dyke, Southern Methodist
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  SMU has aspirations to win a conference title this year. To do so, the Mustangs will have to climb from their preseason ranking. SMU was picked fourth in the American Athletic Conference preseason media poll, the conference announced during its virtual media day on Thursday. Houston edged Cincinnati - the first non-Power Five team to make the College Football Playoff - in total votes to take the top spot in the preseason rankings, even though Cincinnati had three more first place votes. UCF was picked third in the media poll.

Each of the top three teams will leave the AAC for the Big 12 after this season. SMU and new head coach Rhett Lashlee is the highest-ranked team among those that will remain in the conference after this year. Though SMU has a new coach, the Mustangs do return a lot of talent from a team that started 7-0 last season and rose to the top-20 of the AP college football rankings, but finished 1-4 down the stretch. Head coach Sonny Dykes agreed to go to rival TCU before the season ended. - Dallas Morning News

(DS#10 WR) Sr/2023 WR Rashee Rice, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON BUTKUS AWARD WATCHLIST: Isaac Slade-Matautia, SMU,...Slade-Matautia saw action in all 12 games in 2021 after transferring to SMU following three seasons of action at Oregon. He registered 31 tackles, including 2.5 TFLs and a sack, added a team-high two interceptions for 27 yards and had a fumble recovery and two pass breakups. - SMU Football

(DS#29 ILB) rSr/2023 ILB Isaac Slade-Matautia, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: DT Elijah Chatman, SMU,...Chatman is the first Mustang to be mentioned on the Nagurski list since Justin Lawler in 2017, while the Outland nod gives SMU a student-athlete on the list for the third consecutive season (Jaylon Thomas, 2020-21). Chatman saw action in all 12 games, making 11 starts, and registered 40 tackles, including 10 TFLs for 39 yards and 2.5 sacks for 19. - SMU Football

(DS#35 DT) rSr/2024 DT Elijah Chatman, Southern Methodist
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  2022 PRESEASON BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCHLIST: DT Elijah Chatman, SMU,...Chatman saw action in all 12 games, making 11 starts, and registered 40 tackles, including 10 TFLs for 39 yards and 2.5 sacks for 19. He added a team-high two fumble recoveries, a forced fumble and three quarterback hurries. For his efforts, Chatman was named second-team All-American Athletic Conference. - SMU Football

(DS#35 DT) rSr/2024 DT Elijah Chatman, Southern Methodist
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  The Miami Hurricanes hope the final season of Atlantic Coast Conference divisions in 2022 will be their best since they joined the league in 2004 and divisions were created in 2005. The national college football media believes it might be, with one crucial missing ingredient. The majority of a media contingent of 164 voters forecast the Hurricanes to win the league's Coastal Division and meet the Atlantic Division's Clemson Tigers in the Dec. 3 ACC championship at Bank of America Stadium - with Clemson predicted to emerge victorious for what would be its seventh ACC football title in nine years. Clemson was the favorite to win the conference championship in the poll that was released Tuesday, receiving 103 of the 164 total votes to take the ACC title and 111 votes to win the Atlantic Division.

UM was the favorite to win the Coastal, with 98 first-place votes. The Canes received eight votes to win the conference championship, third overall behind Clemson and North Carolina State (38). The Tigers posted a 10-3 record last season, but it was Wake Forest that won the Atlantic Division before falling to the Coastal's Pittsburgh in the league championship game. Miami (7-5 overall, 5-3 ACC) finished second in the Coastal last season. The media has Pitt finishing second in the Coastal to UM this season. The Hurricanes, who won national titles in 1983, '87, '89, '91 and 2001, have made it to the ACC title game only once - in 2017 when they went 10-3 and fell to Clemson 38-3 in the ACC title game. - Miami Herald

(DS#999 QB) rSr/2027 QB Tyler Van Dyke, Southern Methodist
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  University of Miami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke, tight end Will Mallory and defensive end Jahfari Harvey had just landed in Charlotte and were en route with coach Mario Cristobal to the Westin for the ACC media days, when the three made a pact. "Yeah, we're coming back here in December,'' they said. "That's the mindset first and foremost,'' Van Dyke, the 2021 Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year, told reporters Thursday at the ACC Football Kickoff. "We're in the Coastal [Division] and getting here and winning that ACC championship." If the Canes do win the ACC title Dec. 3 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, it would be the first league title for Miami since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004. This will be UM's final opportunity to win the Coastal, since the conference is doing away with divisions beginning next season, when all 14 teams will battle for the top two spots to face each other in the ACC title game.

Van Dyke, a third-year sophomore, already this week was named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which goes to the player of the year at season's end, as well as the Davey O'Brien Award. He played in 10 games last season and started the final nine, completing 202 of 324 passes (62.3 percent) for 2,931 yards and 25 touchdowns, with six interceptions. Van Dyke, 6-4 and 224 pounds, ended the season with six consecutive games with at least 300 passing yards and at least three touchdown passes, becoming the first Power 5 quarterback quarterback to do so in a single season since LSU's Joe Burrow in 2019, when he won the Heisman Trophy. Van Dyke, by the way, said Thursday that people are always comparing him to Burrow. - Miami Herald

(DS#999 QB) rSr/2027 QB Tyler Van Dyke, Southern Methodist
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