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  Even under new scheduling, Syracuse football will face one of the ACC's historic powerhouses each season. The conference on Tuesday announced its shift to a 3-5-5 scheduling model starting in 2023. The model eliminates the Atlantic and Coastal divisions, instead guaranteeing that programs face three opponents annually and the other 10 programs twice every four years. That means within a player's tenure they'll have the chance to face each ACC school at home and away. Syracuse landed Boston College, Pittsburgh and Florida State as its three permanent matchups.

Boston College and Pitt were almost guarantees for the Orange. Both are regional opponents who Syracuse already faces each year - Pitt is the Orange's divisional crossover - and athletic director John Wildhack hinted at Syracuse continuing to face both back in May. Syracuse is 5-4 against Boston College since entering the ACC. The Orange beat Jeff Hafley's team 21-6 last season but lost a close one in 2020. SU has found less success against Pitt while in the same conference. It's lost all but one matchup, though seven of those eight losses have been by two or fewer touchdowns. - The Post-Standard


rJr/2023 OT Matthew BergeronSyracuse
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  Malik Matthew, a three-star linebacker from the class of 2021, has decided to leave Syracuse football and is entering the transfer portal. Though Matthew has yet to make an official announcement and the team did not confirm his departure, his Twitter bio reads "Transfer Outside Linebacker CO '25." The news of Matthew's transfer was reported earlier by 247Sports and Sports Illustrated.

Matthew redshirted his freshman season with the Orange last fall and did not appear in any games. Syracuse returns its three starting linebackers from 2021 - Mikel Jones, Marlowe Wax and Stefon Thompson - for the upcoming season. At the time of his commitment to Syracuse, Matthew said he chose the Orange because he "felt like the relationships (with the coaching staff) were genuine." A top-rated linebacker in New York according to 247Sports, Matthew had offers from Boston College, Buffalo, Kent State and Rutgers while in high school. He was also considered the No. 4 prospect in the state. - The Post-Standard


rFr/2026 OLB Malik MatthewSyracuse
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  After no Syracuse football players were taken in the 2022 NFL Draft, Orange fans can place their hope in running back Sean Tucker (and cornerback Garrett Williams) for 2023. Both players were ranked within their position groups in ESPN's Mel Kiper's 2023 NFL Draft rankings released Tuesday. Tucker, who broke Syracuse's single-season rushing record with 1,496 yards in 2021, came in at No. 8 among running backs. The All-American is the only ACC player at his position in the Top 10. He finished tied for sixth in rushing yards and fourth in rushing yards per game in the FBS. - Post-Standard

rSo/2023 RB *Sean TuckerSyracuse
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  Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, a four-star quarterback prospect in the Class of 2021, will transfer from the University of Florida to Syracuse, he announced on Instagram on Tuesday. Rio-Wilson was ranked as the No. 146 player in the country in last year’s freshman class by 247 Sports and the No. 17 quarterback. He redshirted last season at Florida, where he was listed as 6-foot-2 and 225 pounds.

Rio-Wilson played high school football first at McEachern (Powder Springs, Georgia) High School and Cartersville (Georgia) High School. Cartersville is the high school where former Clemson star Trevor Lawrence played. Rio-Wilson also competed in the Elite 11 Finals, a competition for the country’s top high school quarterbacks. At Florida returning quarterback Anthony Richardson has a strong spring, seemingly securing the starting job. The Gators also brought in Ohio State transfer Jack Miller III and had a second quarterback, Jalen Kitna, who arrived in 2021 with Rio-Wilson. - Syracuse.com


rJr/2026 QB Carlos Del Rio-WilsonSyracuse
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  Syracuse defensive lineman Josh Black has signed with the New Orleans Saints after attending the team's rookie minicamp on a tryout basis, earning a spot on the 90-man roster ahead of training camp later this summer. Black and his agency posted the news on social media Tuesday. Terms of the agreement, including guaranteed money, weren't released. Black becomes the third rookie SU defensive lineman to sign with an NFL team. McKinley Williams and Kingsley Jonathan signed with the Colts and Bills, respectively, immediately after going unselected during the NFL draft. Black wasn't offered a contract after the draft. To earn a contract, he attended rookie minicamp with the Chicago Bears earlier this month before trying out for the Saints' roster this past weekend. - Syracuse.com

rSr/2022 DT Josh BlackSyracuse
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  Syracuse grabbed former Florida Atlantic University wide receiver D'Marcus Adams out of the portal on Friday. This will be Adams' second transfer after originally signing with Florida State in 2018. Adams will come to Syracuse as a graduate transfer and be eligible to play in the fall. Adams is a former high school All-American and track star from Mainland High School in Florida. He also ran track at Florida State. He first committed to Florida State under former coach Jimbo Fisher, then signed with the Seminoles after Fisher left for Texas A&M and Willie Taggart got the job.

Adams is a burner. He reportedly ran a 4.37 40 at the Jimbo Fisher Camp in 2017, around the time he committed. He was credited with 26 receptions for 592 yards, an average of 22.8 yards per reception, with three touchdowns as a senior in high school. His college career has yet to take off to that degree. He has three catches in three seasons after taking a redshirt at FSU in 2018. He left that program after not seeing the field in 2019. Adams has also been utilized as a return specialist throughout his career. - The Post-Standard


rSr/2024 WR DMarcus AdamsSyracuse
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  Kingsley Jonathan was the first overall pick in the Canadian Football League draft on Tuesday, taken by the Montreal Alouettes. Jonathan played five seasons at Syracuse, recording 101 tackles, 15 sacks and three forced fumbles. In 2021, he had three sacks against Boston College, tied for the eighth-most single-game sacks in school history in a single game. At his pro day on March 31, Jonathan ran a 4.76 40-yard dash, jumped 10 feet on the broad jump and recorded 28 bench press reps.

In 2021, he appeared in all 12 games for SU, starting one. He had 20 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks. In 2020, Jonathan recorded 32 tackles (25 solo), 5.5 tackles for loss, 3.0 sacks, a forced fumble, four quarterback hurries and three pass deflections. He was a semifinalist for the Campbell Trophy both years, an honor awarded to a college football player with the best combination of academics, community service and on-field performance. - The Daily Orange


rSr/2022 DE Kingsley JonathanSyracuse
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  Former Syracuse offensive lineman Airon Servais has been invited to the New York Jets rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. Servais was the most durable player in college football, ending his career with an FBS-record 60-straight starts over five seasons. He played both tackle positions and has spent time at center, the position he anchored in 2018 when he earned first-team All-ECAC honors after SU's 10-3 season. - The Post-Standard

rSr/2022 C Airon ServaisSyracuse
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  Florida redshirt freshman quarterback Carlos Del Rio-Wilson will enter his name into the NCAA's transfer portal, The Gainesville Sun confirmed Tuesday. Corey Bender of Gators Online was the first to report Del Rio-Wilson's intentions to leave Gators football program. A former four-star signee in the class of 2021, Del Rio-Wilson didn't see the field as a true freshman, and he found himself third in the pecking order at the conclusion of spring camp following Jack Miller's arrival on campus. Del Rio-Wilson saw the field in the fourth quarter of Thursday's Orange and Blue game, though both of his pass attempts fell incomplete. - Gainesville Sun

rJr/2026 QB Carlos Del Rio-WilsonSyracuse
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  2021 FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY LEAGUE (COACHES): Isaiah Johnson, Dartmouth (Sr., CB - Beverly Hills, Mich.),...Johnson, a lockdown senior cornerback at 6-3 and 205 pounds, got the attention of NFL scouts this fall with his combination of length, speed and instincts on the field. The native of Beverly Hills, Michigan, finished the year with 55 tackles, 2.5 for a loss, a team-high six pass breakups and game-clinching, 73-yard interception return in the win over Princeton. And during the critical 20-17 win at Harvard, four of his 11 tackles came on rushes and five more on passes of no more than five yards, helping to hold the Crimson to a season-low 223 yards of offense. - Dartmouth Football

rSr/2024 FS Isaiah JohnsonSyracuse
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  Syracuse star linebacker Mikel Jones and defensive end Caleb Okechukwu both announced that they would return to the Orange on Thursday night, keeping a pair of projected starters in place heading into next year. Jones, an All-ACC First Team linebacker and a team captain, said late in the year that he was considering entering the NFL Draft following a stellar junior season, making his decision a critical one for the Orange this offseason. Jones had said that he planned to seek information from the NFL Draft Advisory Committee before making his decision. The other big decision the Syracuse defense is waiting on will come from his roommate, defensive back Garrett Williams. The return of both players will be a big boost for an Orange defense that finished second in the ACC in total defense (330.3 yards per game) and sixth in the conference in scoring defense (26.3 points). - The Post-Standard

rJr/2023 ILB Mikel JonesSyracuse
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  2021 ALL-ACC FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM (COACHES/MEDIA): DE - Cody Roscoe, Syracuse, 112 votes,...Roscoe's 8.5 sacks this season was third in the ACC and his 12.5 tackles for loss was seventh in the conference. He also led all Orange defensive linemen with 46 tackles and had five quarterback hurries. - Syracuse Football

rSr/2022 DE Cody RoscoeSyracuse
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  2021 ALL-ACC FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM (COACHES/MEDIA): RB - Sean Tucker, Syracuse, 187 votes,...Tucker capped an incredible second season at SU as the program's new single-season rushing leader (1,496). He finished the regular season ranked fourth nationally in the category, while also sixth nationally in all-purpose yards per game (145.9), despite only collecting his yards via rushing and receiving. - Syracuse Football

rSo/2023 RB *Sean TuckerSyracuse
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  2021 ALL-ACC FOOTBALL HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES/MEDIA): CB - Garrett Williams, Syracuse, 34 votes,...Williams was third in the conference in passes defended, but led the league in pass breakups with 10. Williams missed a pair of games due to injury, but had five tackles for loss and was the team's leading tackler out of the secondary (52.0) in his 10 games played. - Syracuse Football

rSo/2023 CB *Garrett WilliamsSyracuse
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  2021 ALL-ACC FOOTBALL HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES/MEDIA): DT - Josh Black, Syracuse, 32 votes,...Black started every game on the Orange defensive line this season, finishing the year with 35 tackles, six tackles for loss and 0.5 sacks. He helped the Orange defense post its lowest total defense number in 11 years, holding opponents to 330 yards per game. - Syracuse Football

rSr/2022 DT Josh BlackSyracuse
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