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  Alabama wide receiver JoJo Earle is expected to miss the first month of the season with a broken foot. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said Wednesday that Earle sustained a Jones fracture in practice "a couple of days ago". Saban said recovery typically takes 6-8 weeks and that the sophomore receiver and return man could be back as early as the Arkansas game on Oct. 1. Alabama opens against Utah State on Sept. 3. "He was doing a really, really good job, having a really good camp," Saban said. "Probably the best he's been on a consistent basis. Just saw a guy that grew up and was playing with a lot of confidence. We'll miss him for a while." Earle had 12 catches last season for 148 yards and averaged 5.9 yards on 15 punt returns. He was vying for a starting job with Alabama having to replace receivers Jameson Williams, John Metchie III and Slade Bolden. Earle missed three games with a leg injury late last season. - AP College Football

Sr/2025 WR JoJo EarleTexas Christian
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  Arguably the best news as Utah looks forward to practice in full pads next week: The secondary, so devoid of depth late last season that running back Micah Bernard started at cornerback in the Rose Bowl, is now healthy. All-Pac-12 cornerback JT Broughton is back from a torn labrum, while Faybian Marks and Zemaiah Vaughn, both lost down the stretch to season-ending injuries, were given full green lights for camp. More good news: Fifth-year senior safety R.J. Hubert remains healthy after missing nearly all of the 2021 season following a freak knee injury on the first play of the spring game. - Salt Lake Tribune

rSr/2025 CB JaTravis BroughtonTexas Christian
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  Senior linebacker Marcel Brooks has had quite the journey. From a five-star recruit to promising freshman at LSU to having to switch positions at TCU. Brooks has been through it all. The former blue chip recruit is back at linebacker and looks to have added on some much needed weight to his frame. Brooks is listed at 194 pounds on the roster, but could be closer to 200 after committing to the strength and conditioning plan. Brooks ran with the second team during 11-on-11 and brought Blair Conwright down for a nice tackle. - Fort Worth Star

rSr/2025 OLB Marcel BrooksTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON WALTER CAMP PLAYER OF YEAR PLAYER TO WATCH: Quentin Johnston, WR, junior, TCU,...Playing in just nine games, Johnston led the Horned Frogs last season in receiving yards (634), yards per reception (19.2) and touchdown catches (six) while placing second in receptions (33). He topped 100 yards receiving on three occasions, all in his final five games. He had a career day at Oklahoma with seven receptions for 185 yards and three touchdowns, including the No. 2 Collegiate Play of the Year on ESPN's You Got Mossed. - TCU Football

Jr/2023 WR *Quentin JohnstonTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON PAUL HORNUNG AWARD WATCH LIST: Derius Davis, TCU,...Davis topped TCU last season with 36 receptions, while his 518 receiving yards placed second. He averaged 10.2 yards on punt returns and 29.6 yards on kickoff returns, including taking the game's opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown versus West Virginia. It was his fourth career special teams score. His three career punt returns for touchdowns are tied for second in TCU history, just one behind KaVontae Turpin (4, 2015-18) for the lead. - TCU Football

rSr/2023 WR Derius DavisTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON CHUCK BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: TreíVius Hodges-Tomlinson, TCU, Senior CB,...Hodges-Tomlinson, named to multiple Preseason All-America teams as well as watch lists for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy and Jim Thorpe Award, is a two-time First-Team All-Big 12 recipient. He was sixth on TCU in 2021 with 42 stops, more than his first two years combined (34). Exclusively a cornerback in his TCU career, he moved to safety midway through the Texas game when the Horned Frogs became thin at the position. He responded with a career-high 10 tackles while forcing a fumble. - TCU Football

Sr/2023 CB TreVius Hodges-TomlinsonTexas Christian
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  Oregon State redshirt junior quarterback Chance Nolan (6-3, 210) returns after starting 12 games last season, hitting on 204 of 318 passes for 2,677 yards, 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Coach Jonathan Smith believes Nolan gained the experience to continue the Beavers' improvement this year. OSU won five of its first seven games last yearand earned a bowl bid for the first time since 2013. The Beavers lost to Utah State, 24-13 in the LA Bowl and finished the season 7-6. "What I love about Chance is how competitive he is and I think he displays that in his style of play, being competitive in the pocket but also extending the play and getting some extra yards, getting first downs," Smith said. "He did have a lot of good games for us. I thought he improved from his first year to this last year and right now he's heading into year three. We're counting on him taking that next step into being a three-year starting quarterback because he's got a skill set of throwing the ball, athletic, competitive." - Gazette Times

rSr/2024 QB Chance NolanTexas Christian
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  When it comes to the looming quarterback competition, TCU head coach Sonny Dykes has a clear vision for what he wants from the winner. "I always thought that playing quarterback is like playing point guard. You're distributing the ball to other guys and your job is to make them look really good. The guy that makes everybody look the best is typically the best player," said Dykes, the first-year coach who opens camp next week. There are currently five quarterbacks on the roster with Max Duggan and Chandler Morris expected to be the primary contenders for the job. All of them, including redshirt freshman Sam Jackson, will be starting with a clean slate as Dykes searches for his field general. "I'm not concerned at all with the politics of any of it. I don't care who the starting quarterback was in the past, I don't care who was the highest-rated guy is, I don't care who has the highest ceiling," Dykes said. "I don't care about any of that, I care about who gives us the best chance to win." There many factors Dykes will consider in that regard like ball security and decision-making.

However, the most important might be confidence. "Tom Brady is Tom Brady because he can walk in the huddle and everybody in the huddle believes this guy is going to figure out a way to help us to win this ball game. That's what you're looking for, a guy that commands everybody's respect. Somebody that everybody believes in," Dykes said. Whoever emerges as the winner will be in the line to be the latest quarterback to thrive under Dykes. His track record is well known as he coached No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff and fellow NFL quarterback Davis Webb at California. - Fort Worth Star


Sr/2023 QB Max DugganTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON RAY GUY WATCHLIST: Jordy Sandy - TCU,...Another graduate of the ProKick program in Australia, Sandy (6-3, 216) was an All-Big 12 selection in 2020. His career-high 43.3-yard average last season was the best by a Horned Frog since Ethan Perry's 44.5 mark in 2012. Thirteen of Sandy's 43 punts went inside the 20, including six inside the 10, with just three touchbacks. Opponents were held to 10 punt return yards on the season. He averaged 50.4 yards on five punts in the 34-32 win over Cal. Included in that effort was a 64-yard punt, TCU's longest since 2014. He also had a 62-yard punt downed at the 1-yard line versus Texas, one of his eight punts of at least 50 yards on the year. His love for the game originated in his hometown of Victoria, Australia, where he played Australian rules football, similar to rugby. He was trained for American football punting in Australia's ProKick program, rated No. 1 in the country and was offered a scholarship by TCU. - TCU Football

rSr/2024 P Jordy SandyTexas Christian
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  Gophers receiver Dylan Wright has done the offseason work to build on his 18-reception, 365-yard, two-touchdown season in 2021, Fleck shared. "I've watched him work," Fleck said. "I've known he's done all the un-required stuff to do it...He's embracing the process of growth." During one spring practice, Wright made an incredible catch that fired up Fleck and confused Wright, thinking his head coach might be mad at him. "I was talking very firmly about how good he can be and why doesn't this happen all the time," Fleck said. The 6-foot-4, 210-pound Texas A&M transfer is "one of the most pure, athletic guys I've coached at that position," said Fleck, who has had elite receivers Rashod Bateman, Corey Davis and Tyler Johnson under his wing. - Pioneer Press

rSr/2025 WR Dylan WrightTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON BUTKUS AWARD WATCHLIST: Dee Winters, TCU,...Winters started all 12 games last season and totaled a team-best 74 tackles, including 5.0 for loss with a sack, two interceptions, two pass breakups and two quarterback hurries. He enters the 2022 campaign with 167 career stops, the most among current Horned Frogs. He also leads all active TCU players with three career double-digit tackle games. A senior from Brenham, Texas, Winters posted a career-high 12 stops, including nine solo, against West Virginia last season and tied a then career-best with 10 tackles, one for loss, in the 52-31 win at Texas Tech. He tied for the team lead with eight stops in the 30-28 victory over Baylor. He had eight tackles and his second interception of the season in the 31-28 win against Kansas. - TCU Football

Sr/2023 ILB Dee WintersTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCHLIST: CB Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson, TCU,...Despite teams consistently throwing away from him last season, Hodges-Tomlinson had a team-best seven pass breakups and two forced fumbles. He also tied for the TCU lead with two interceptions, including one returned 29 yards for a touchdown in a 52-31 win at Texas Tech which helped him earn Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors. He was sixth on TCU in 2021 with 42 stops, more than his first two years combined (34). Exclusively a cornerback in his TCU career, he moved to safety midway through the Texas game when the Horned Frogs became thin at the position. He responded with a career-high 10 tackles while forcing a fumble. - TCU Football

Sr/2023 CB TreVius Hodges-TomlinsonTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON OUTLAND TROPHY WATCHLIST: C Steve Avila, TCU,...A First-Team All-Big 12 selection and Team Captain last season, Avila started at center in 11 games while also seeing action at right guard against Texas. Avila, who also appears on the Rimington Trophy Watch List, will be in his third season as a starter. He started all nine games he played in 2020 with six at center, two at right tackle and one at right guard. He was the only Horned Frog that season to start at three different positions on the offensive line. - TCU Football

rSr/2023 OG Steve AvilaTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON JIM THORPE AWARD WATCHLIST: Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson, TCU, Sr.,... Only a three-star Texas prep (Midway High, Waco), but with good genetics as the nephew of Pro Football Hall of Famer LaDanian Tomlinson. Tre (5-9, 180) showed up as a top college cornerback immediately and made his first start as a freshman. He was named to multiple All-America teams as a sophomore, when Pro Football Focus gave him the highest coverage grade among Power Five teams. Although a true corner, he helped at safety due to injuries against Texas and had ten tackles and a forced fumble. As a junior in 2021, Tre earned first team All-Big 12 honors for the second straight season ... despite teams consistently throwing away from him, he had a team-best seven pass breakups and two forced fumbles. - TCU Football

Sr/2023 CB TreVius Hodges-TomlinsonTexas Christian
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  2022 PRESEASON RIMINGTON TROPHY WATCHLIST: Steve Avila, TCU,...A First-Team All-Big 12 selection and Team Captain last season, Avila started at center in 11 games while also seeing action at right guard against Texas. Avila, who represented TCU at last week's Big 12 Media Day, will be in his third season as a starter. He started all nine games he played in 2020 with six at center, two at right tackle and one at right guard. He was the only Horned Frog that season to start at three different positions on the offensive line. TCU's Jake Kirkpatrick was the 2010 recipient of the Rimington Trophy. - TCU Football

rSr/2023 OG Steve AvilaTexas Christian
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