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07/29/20 - RaVon Bonner, Sr/2022, Temple + More +

Cornerback Caleb Farley says he will not play for Virginia Tech this season because of health concerns and will focus instead on preparing for the 2021 NFL draft. The redshirt junior from Hickory, North Carolina made the announcement in a video posted on Twitter, joining Illinois running back Ra'Von Bonner and others in choosing not to play. Bonner, who the school indicated was sitting out for personal reasons, told the Chicago Tribune that seeing teammates test positive for COVID-19 during team workout this summer made him rethink the situation. Bonner's decision is supported by teammates and coach Lovie Smith. - AP College Football

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RB RaVon Bonner, Temple
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07/27/20 - Dante Wright, rSr/2025, Temple + More +

2020 PRESEASON PAUL HORNUNG AWARD WATCH LIST: Dante Wright, Colorado State,...Wright became Colorado State's first true freshman to earn freshman All-American honors by the FWAA in 2019, also earning a spot on ESPN's True Freshman All-American team. He sat second on the team with 57 catches for 805 yards and four touchdowns. He ranked third nationally among all freshmen with 67.1 receiving yards per game, and his total catches sat sixth. He added 17 rushes for 219 yards, scoring twice and returned 19 punts at an average of 7.1 yards per attempt. - Colorado State Football

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WR Dante Wright, Temple
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04/27/20 - Matt Hennessy, rJr/2020, Temple + More +

The American Athletic Conference had 17 players selected from its member schools during last week's NFL draft. It was the conference's second highest total in its seven-year history, falling just short of 2018?s record mark of 18 selections. That was the top draft haul among all Group of Five conferences for the sixth straight year. The Mountain West and Conference USA each had 10 draftees in this year's draft.

The AAC has actually been closer to the Big 12 than it has been with other "fellow" G5 schools in terms of recent draft pick totals. Outside of the 2019 draft, where the Big 12 had 26 players taken and the AAC only had 11, the two conferences have had very similar totals in all other drafts since 2017: This year was 21-17 in the Big 12?s favor, 2018 was 20-18 in the Big 12?s favor and the AAC actually had the better total in 2017 (15-14). - Dallas Morning News

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C Matt Hennessy, Temple
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04/20/20 - Matt Hennessy, rJr/2020, Temple + More +

Temple center Matt Hennessy was ready to have an in-person interview with the Eagles leading up to the NFL draft when the coronavirus pandemic shut down everything. His scheduled visit was March 13. Temple center Matt Hennessy works equally hard at football and academics. The NFL is next. "I was in Philadelphia and was going to go down to the complex that day and visit with everybody but wasn't able to due to the circumstances," Hennessy said last week by phone. Hennessy eventually had the meeting with the Eagles via Zoom. "I thought the meeting went well, and of course I'd be thrilled to go there," he said. In truth, he would be thrilled to go to any of the 32 NFL teams.

Hennessy, who earned his degree in finance in December, was a redshirt junior, but bypassed his final season at Temple. Since then, he played in the Senior Bowl and participated in the NFL scouting combine, where the 6-foot-4, 307-pound Hennessy ran a 5.18 40-yard dash and bench pressed 225 pounds 23 times. He has been at home during the pre-draft process in Rockland County, New York, about 20 minutes from Manhattan. "We're in New York in one of the hotter [coronavirus] zones, but I'm just staying in the house and staying away," he said. - Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News

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C Matt Hennessy, Temple
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03/31/20 - Matt Hennessy, rJr/2020, Temple + More +

Video chatting with draft prospects is nothing new for NFL teams. It once was part of a process that included having a maximum of 30 prospects visit team facilities, attending college pro days, and staging individual workouts. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, however, virtual face-to-face conversations are now the only kind the league will permit as clubs do their homework for the April 23-25 draft. To give a sense of how much meeting with prospects matters, the Bills drafted three of the 30 who reportedly visited their facility last year: defensive tackle Ed Oliver, tight end Dawson Knox, and linebacker Vosean Joseph. The sessions generally cover the same ground as they did before the health crisis. Player-personnel types and coaches seek to get to know as much as they can about the prospects, personally and football-wise.

Position coaches gauge their football acumen by showing them diagrams of plays, which can be tricky in a video-conferencing environment where imaging is reversed, and discuss schemes. "It's one thing when you get on with somebody from the front office who wants to talk background and stuff, that's pretty easy," Temple center Matt Hennessy told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "It's more challenging when you get on with a coach who wants to talk scheme as well, because then they have to pull up the whiteboard for FaceTime...Things will be flipped through the camera. "Communication becomes a little more difficult. I guess overall, it's not too much different from doing it in person, there's just that barrier. I'm in my living room and the coach is at his house, too, so it seems like a casual setting, but at the same time, it's still a job interview." - Buffalo News

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C Matt Hennessy, Temple
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03/29/20 - Matt Hennessy, rJr/2020, Temple + More +

Temple center Matt Hennessy expected to meet with a number of NFL teams in preparation for next month's entry draft. What Hennessy didn't foresee was that those visits would take place in his mother's living room in Bardonia, N.Y., with Hennessy staring into his laptop's camera. The league has shut down all team facilities because of the coronavirus pandemic, and has forbidden teams from holding their usual 30 prospect visits, which usually are supplemented by visits from local prospects who don't count toward the 30. Hennessy had planned to meet with Howie Roseman, Doug Pederson and the Eagles as a local prospect. Now he's a virtual prospect instead. As is the case with hundreds of other draft hopefuls nationwide. Teams, agents and prospects are worried about more than just the optics of taking part in such an exercise in a time of crisis. Teams are working with less information on prospects than in recent memory. Evaluators always say they base their decisions mostly on a prospect's game film. This year, that might be more true than at any time in the past few decades.

"It's so far less than ideal, I can't tell you," said agent Brett Tessler, who is based in South Florida, and whose clients include a lot of self-made players who weren't high picks. Will less-well-known prospects suffer from this truncated process? "It's your non-combine, diamond-in-the-rough type guy who's really going to get screwed the most," Tessler said. "I'm in my living room, and the coach is at his house, too, so it seems like a casual setting. But at the same time, it's still a job interview." Another agent, who didn't want to be quoted by name in the wake of Goodell's dictum, said he had spoken to a number of general managers and personnel people on this issue. "They should not have the draft," the agent said. "Nobody wants the draft to go on in four weeks. Nobody is prepared." - Philadelphia Inquirer

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C Matt Hennessy, Temple
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03/16/20 - Zack Mesday, rSr/2020, Temple + More +

Temple defensive end Zack Mesday could be the longest of long shots, but he refuses to give up, working out twice a day to chase his professional football dream. He certainly isn't like most prospects who have had their entire college tuition paid for them. The first thing he would do if he signed a professional contract? "It would help me pay off my student loans," he said. Mesday, who will earn his master's degree from Temple in May, just completed his last season of eligibility in the fall. It was quite an end to a career that certainly had a bleak beginning. He attended prep school for a year, walked on at Temple, had two ACL surgeries on his right knee in each of the first two years, changed his position from fullback, finally earned a scholarship in his fifth year and was a key contributor at defensive end last season, his sixth at Temple.

Now he was hoping to catch the eye of NFL personnel at pro days, except the coronavirus changed all of that. Mesday has been making himself bigger, stronger and faster, but he took a moment to display his frustration on Twitter last Thursday when it was announced that Temple's pro day has been postponed because of the virus. I understand the severity of the situation & see the bigger picture when it comes to public safety. With that being said, players like myself rely on Pro Day to make a push at the NFL. Hope this is resolved soon, because God knows what I've been through to make it to this point. - Philadelphia Inquirer

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OLB Zack Mesday, Temple
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02/21/20 - Matt Hennessy, rJr/2020, Temple + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Matt Hennessy, C, Temple,...Once the 2019 season ended, Hennessy had been a three-year starter (35 starts in the past three seasons), one of three finalists for the Rimington Trophy (given to the best center in college football), an All-American, and earned his bachelor's degree in finance. Immediately following the team's Military Bowl game, he announced that he was going to forego his final season of eligibility and prepare for the 2020 NFL Draft. - Temple Football

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C Matt Hennessy, Temple
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02/21/20 - Shaun Bradley, Sr/2020, Temple + More +

2020 NFL COMBINE INVITE: Shaun Bradley, ILB, Temple,...The Mt. Holly native was the team's leading tackler, with 80 stops, for the second time in three seasons. He also added 8.0 TFLs, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery. - Temple Football

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OLB Shaun Bradley, Temple
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01/06/20 - Michael Niese, rSr/2022, Temple + More +

2019 ALL-PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): OL Michael Niese, Dayton,...Redshirt senior center Tim Roell and senior guard Michael Niese were the Flyer linemen named to the first team. The Dayton offense is ranked first in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision in scoring offense (42.5 points a game) and red-zone offense (94.5% efficiency). That starts up front, and four of UD's offensive linemen were named All-PFL. (Two on the first team, and another two on the second team.). - Dayton Football

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OG Michael Niese, Temple
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12/08/19 - Sam Franklin, Sr/2020, Temple + More +

2019 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM (COACHES): LB Sam Franklin, Temple, Sr.,...Franklin, a senior from Crystal River, Fla., was a dynamic playmaker all season for Temple. He registered 61 tackles, 7.5 TFLs, a sack, an interception, two PBUs, and two fumble recoveries this season. He scored twice this season; once on a fumble recovery and once on a pick six on Senior Day. - Temple Football

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SS Sam Franklin, Temple
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12/08/19 - Jovahn Fair, rSr/2020, Temple + More +

2019 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM (COACHES): OG Jovahn Fair, Temple, Gr.,...Fair, a graduate student from Akron, Ohio, has been a consistent leader on the offensive line starting every game at left guard the past two seasons. Fair was also selected to the second team all-conference last season and helped pave the way for Temple rush for 1,706 yards this season and 15 touchdowns this season. He can become the first Temple player to start in four bowl games. - Temple Football

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OG Jovahn Fair, Temple
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12/08/19 - Shaun Bradley, Sr/2020, Temple + More +

2019 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): LB Shaun Bradley, Temple, Sr.,...Bradley, a senior from Mt. Holly, N.J., was the team's leading tackler this season and followed up last year's first team all-conference performance with another one this season. Bradley had 80 tackles, 8.5 TFLs, three PBUs, a fumble recovery, and a forced fumble this season. He was the vocal leader of the best red zone defense in the conference. - Temple Football

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OLB Shaun Bradley, Temple
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12/08/19 - Matt Hennessy, rJr/2020, Temple + More +

2019 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): C Matt Hennessy, Temple, Jr.,...Hennessy, a graduate from Bardonia, N.Y., anchored the middle of the offensive line that led the way for an offense that averaged 27.4 points per game. Hennessy was graded by Pro Football Focus as the best center in FBS allowing just four QB pressures all season. - Temple Football

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C Matt Hennessy, Temple
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12/02/19 - Branden Mack, rSr/2021, Temple + More +

DEC 2 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE HONOR ROLL: Branden Mack, Temple, Jr., WR,...Had five receptions for 171 yards and two touchdowns (63 and 41 yards) in a 49-17 win against UConn. - American Athletic Conference Football

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