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10/23/20 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

Jalen Catalon saw nothing but green grass in front of him. Well, green grass and Matt Corral. But the redshirt freshman made quick work of the Ole Miss quarterback, slipping past his half-hearted attempt at a tackle and cruising into the end zone for a tone-setting touchdown. A native of Mansfield, Texas, Catalon returned his first career interception for a 35-yard score that put the Razorbacks up 17-0 over the Rebels early in the second quarter Saturday. For Corral, who entered Week 4 with only one pick to his name, it was his second interception in as many attempts. "We were just in a zone coverage, just reading the quarterback and he rolled out and I read his eyes," Catalon said Tuesday, recalling the sequence. "I just broke on the ball and made the play and had my eyes on the end zone and took it home from there. It was a great feeling.

"I credit my D-line because without them all the interceptions that happened that day wouldn't have happened, so credit to those guys and everybody else who did their job. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I made the play." Catalon made the play because that is what he knows to do. Razorbacks linebacker Grant Morgan labeled the safety a technician. "Linebackers have a joke about him," Morgan noted. "We call him Ironman because we always know he's going to be able to make us right if we mess up. Just be able to have that at that time of the game just shows that no matter what happened we were able to capitalize on their mistakes and we were just able to play our defense. "We kept saying the whole game who is going to be the guy to make the play? Who is going to be the guy that does their job so good that it ends up making the difference in the game?" - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, UNLV
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10/21/20 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

Chad Morris called Jalen Catalon "one of the top five high school players" he ever saw. Turns out the former unsuccessful Arkansas Razorbacks coach now Auburn offensive coordinator successfully recruited perhaps one of the best safeties that Arkansas has ever seen. Umpteen chapters remain before archiving Catalon's place in Razorbacks history, but four games into 2020 the redshirt freshman from Mansfield, Texas posts a season reminiscent of past Razorbacks great safeties Steve Atwater, a NFL Hall of Famer, Kenoy Kennedy, and All-Americans Ken Hamlin and the late Martine Bercher. For first-year Coach Sam Pittman's Razorbacks, 2-2 after thwarting Ole Miss, 33-21 Saturday at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Catalon already has made 45 tackles, forced a fumble, recovered a fumble, broken up two passes and intercepted one returned for a 35-yard touchdown.

Call Catalon a catalyst. A catalyst in Pittman and first-year defensive coordinator/safeties coach Barry Odom converting the pathetically porous 2018 and 2019 Arkansas defenses on consecutive 2-10 overall/0-8 in the SEC teams under Morris and defensive coordinator John Chavis into earning 2020 national renown. Catalon the catalyst takes it from there. Tangibly and intangibly. Catalon's excelling every game stats speak tangibly. Intangibly, though respectively UA arriving the same year and just one year later, redshirt freshman walk-on starting cornerback Hunter Clark with three interceptions against Ole Miss, and true freshman starting cornerback Khari Johnson look to Catalon like a veteran senior. "Man he does everything!" Clark said during Saturday's postgame. "He took me and Khari under his wing this week. He took us into watch film. He's been a real leader for this defense." - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, UNLV
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10/18/20 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

Arkansas safety Jalen Catalon and linebacker Drew Morgan each had interception returns for touchdowns. Catalon's 35-yard return gave Arkansas a 17-0 lead with 10:40 left in the second quarter. Morgan's 23-yard return with 3:07 left put the Razorbacks ahead 33-21. Arkansas has three interception returns for touchdowns this season, including Greg Brooks' 69-yarder at Mississippi State. It's the first time the Razorbacks have had three interception returns for touchdowns in a season since 2016 when Ryan Pulley against Texas State, Henre Toliver against Alcorn State and Santos Ramirez against Florida did it. - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, UNLV
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10/15/20 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

Jalen Catalon, a redshirt freshman safety, led the Razorbacks with 14 tackles at Auburn. He's tied for the team lead with linebacker Bumper Pool with 36 tackles and leads with 26 solo stops. Linebacker Grant Morgan is third with 33 tackles and defensive end Zach Williams is fourth with 17. - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, UNLV
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10/02/20 - Vincent Davis Jr., rSr/2024, UNLV + More +

Vincent Davis doesn't have the frame you'd normally associate with a bell-cow back. But with 42 carries so far this year, third-most in the ACC, the sophomore is holding up just fine - making guys miss and even doling out some hits himself as he tries to cement his spot atop Pitt's depth chart. "Vince is one of the toughest guys on the team. He prides himself on that," Pitt captain and quarterback Kenny Pickett said after Davis' 18-touch, 76-yard game against Louisville. "He's a smaller guy, but it takes two or three to bring him down. He's a guy I love playing with, a guy who plays full tilt." "We always knew him as a game-breaker," DuBuc said. "He runs like he's a fullback but can change direction like a 150-pound back. He's just an explosive guy."

Though the coaching staff would like to see more on the ground - blocking for 8 yards and getting 28, as Pat Narduzzi said earlier in the season - Davis has provided that pop to an aspect of Pitt's offense that was severely lacking last year. Anyone who watched Pitt in 2019 knows how non-existent the running game was. The Panthers ranked 100th nationally in rushing attempts and 118th in rushing yards per game. Perhaps more telling, Pitt had only nine rushing plays of 20-plus yards. The only Football Bowl Subdivision team that played 13 games and had fewer was Washington State. It appeared early on this season that Pitt might lack that explosion again. After all, Pickett and wide receiver Jordan Addison accounted for the Panthers' longest rushes in the opener against Austin Peay. - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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RB Vincent Davis Jr., UNLV
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09/23/20 - Tate Martell, rSr/2023, UNLV + More +

Diaz confirmed quarterback Tate Martell has opted out for the season and neither party is sure about the quarterback's role with the program moving forward. "We told Tate we'd just revisit it after the season," Diaz said, "and we'll kind of see where everything's at." The Hurricanes (2-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) confirmed Martell is out for the season Saturday, although they did not disclose a reason. - Miami Herald

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QB Tate Martell, UNLV
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09/22/20 - Kylan Wilborn, rSr/2022, UNLV + More +

Another veteran Arizona Wildcats defensive player is leaving the program. Senior edge rusher Kylan Wilborn announced Monday that he is entering the NCAA transfer portal. Wilborn earned Freshman All-America recognition in 2017, when he and classmates Tony Fields II, Colin Schooler and Scottie Young Jr. piled up big numbers and established themselves as the foundation for a rebuilding UA defense. Now all four are gone. Fields and Young transferred to West Virginia earlier this year. Schooler transferred to Texas Tech to try to play this fall when it appeared the Pac-12 Conference wouldn't. All four players were recruited by former coach Rich Rodriguez and his staff. - Arizona Star News

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OLB Kylan Wilborn, UNLV
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08/20/20 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

Arkansas redshirt freshman defensive back Jalen Catalon is going to miss some practice time after having a procedure to repair meniscus on a knee, sources told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Catalon is expected to miss about four weeks following the procedure. The 5-10, 189-pounder from Mansfield, Texas, was one of the top signees in the Razorbacks' 2019 signing class. He is expected to compete for playing time at safety. Catalon had major knee surgery as a prep senior at Mansfield Legacy High and needed shoulder surgery late in his redshirt season at Arkansas last year. - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, UNLV
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08/15/20 - Justin Rogers, rSr/2023, UNLV + More +

UNLV transfer quarterback Justin Rogers and defensive lineman Adam Plant were granted immediate eligibility by the NCAA, the school announced Friday afternoon. Both Rogers and Plant transferred to UNLV from Texas Christian, and will have three years of eligibility remaining. Rogers is a former four-star recruit ranked No. 43 overall in the 2018 class, per 247 Sports. He was the No. 3 ranked dual threat quarterback but injured his knee during his senior year of high school, and never quite found his footing with the Horned Frogs. - Las Vegas Review Journal

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QB Justin Rogers, UNLV
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08/10/20 - Charles Williams, rSr/2022, UNLV + More +

The Mountain West has announced the indefinite postponement of all scheduled fall sports contests and MW championship events in response to ongoing challenges with the effective mitigation and management of the COVID-19 virus in conjunction with athletic competition. The MW Board of Directors prioritized the physical and mental health and well-being of the Conference's student-athletes and overall campus communities in its decision - as it has done throughout the course of the pandemic. The fall sports affected by today's decision include men's and women's cross country, football, women's soccer and women's volleyball (with the exception of the unique circumstances involved with the military service academies). Last week, the league announced that all fall competition in the sports of men's and women's golf, men's and women's tennis, women's swimming and diving, men's and women's indoor track and field, softball and baseball was canceled. At this time, there are ongoing discussions regarding the status of winter sports. - Mountain West Conference

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RB Charles Williams, UNLV
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08/04/20 - Daviyon McDaniel, rSr/2023, UNLV + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT PRESEASON ALL-BIG SOUTH THIRD TEAM: Daviyon McDaniel, Charleston Southern, Jr.,...McDaniel lined up in 11 games in the 2019 season...Helped the Bucs posted 361.8 yards of total offense per game...Helped the Bucs post 22.2 points per game...Bucs averaged 153.0 rushing yards per game in 2019...Helped CSU average 4.3 yards per carry in 2019...Part of a unit that gave CSU an average of 18.4 first downs per game...Part of a unit that surrendered just 24 sacks in 2019...Helped the Bucs covert at a 77.8% rate inside the red zone. - Charleston Southern Football

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OG Daviyon McDaniel, UNLV
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08/03/20 - Hajj-Malik Williams, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

2020 PHIL STEELE/DRAFTSCOUT PRESEASON ALL-BIG SOUTH FIRST TEAM: Hajj-Malik Williams, Campbell, Soph.,...Williams became the second Camel and first CU freshman to pass for more than 2,000 yards in a single season, throwing for 2,042 yards and 17 touchdowns, while rushing for a team-high 664 yards and nine more touchdowns, ranking third in the Big South in total offense (2,686), and standing in the top-six in rushing yards, rushing TDs, passing yards and passing TDs. - Campbell Football

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QB Hajj-Malik Williams, UNLV
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07/27/20 - Charles Williams, rSr/2022, UNLV + More +

2020 PRESEASON MAXWELL AWARD WATCH LIST: RB Charles Williams, UNLV,...Williams was previously named to the Doak Walker Award Watch List and a member of the official Preseason All-Mountain West Team. The "Chuck Wagon" was just the fourth UNLV player to have won a conference regular-season rushing title, finished with 1,257 yards and 11 touchdowns as a junior last fall. He heads into his final season ranked seventh in school history with 2,445 yards and needs 555 more to become just the fourth Rebel to reach 3,000 yards on the ground. - UNLV Football

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RB Charles Williams, UNLV
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07/24/20 - Charles Williams, rSr/2022, UNLV + More +

2020 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD WATCH LIST: Charles Williams (Sr.), UNLV,...Williams, just the fourth UNLV player to have won a conference regular-season rushing title, finished with 1,257 yards and 11 touchdowns as a junior last fall. A unanimous choice for 2020 preseason first team All-Mountain West by various publications, he heads into his senior season ranked seventh in school history with 2,445 yards and needs 555 more to become just the fourth Rebel to reach 3,000 yards on the ground. - UNLV Football

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RB Charles Williams, UNLV
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05/25/20 - Clayton Bradley, rSr/2022, UNLV + More +

Offensive tackle Clayton Bradley is transferring to UNLV, and the Southern California graduate will be eligible to play this season. Bradley (6 feet 5 inches, 295 pounds) did not play last season because of a back injury suffered in 2018. The NCAA granted him a sixth year of eligibility in January. Bradley played in 14 games and started three in 2017 and saw action in just three games in 2018 because of the injury. - Las Vegas Review Journal

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