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07/29/21 - Tate Martell, rSr/2023, UNLV + More +

Former Bishop Gorman star quarterback Tate Martell will play football at UNLV this season. Martell announced his decision commitment through an interview with Franchise Sports Media. A person with knowledge of the situation said that he's walking on to the team as an "athlete," though the 23-year-old told Franchise Sports Media that he had other opportunities to play elsewhere on scholarship. "Honestly, this is where I want to be and who I want to play for," Martell told Franchise Sports Media. "UNLV checked off all the boxes for me on and off of the field. But I just want to come in, grind and compete. Just put my head down and work and be a leader and a person Coach (Marcus) Arroyo, the coaching staff, and my teammates can trust and count on."

Martell guided the Gaels to three consecutive mythical national championships and concluded his high school career in 2016 with one of the most impressive resumes in prep football history. He committed verbally to Washington and Texas A&M before signing with Ohio State as one of the top quarterback recruits in the class of 2017. He redshirted in 2017 and backed up future NFL quarterback Dwayne Haskins the following season. He transferred to Miami in 2019 and played sparingly behind quaterbacks Jarren Williams and N'Kosi Perry. He did not play in 2020. - Las Vegas Review Journal

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QB Tate Martell, UNLV
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07/28/21 - Tate Martell, rSr/2023, UNLV + More +

Former Ohio State quarterback Tate Martell's nomadic college career has taken him back to where it all started. Per multiple reports, the Las Vegas native will next play at UNLV. Martell, who most recently played for Washington, has two years of eligibility remaining. Martell first committed to Washington as a 14-year old in 2012 - exactly nine years ago Sunday. The four-star prospect ranked No. 56 in the 2017 class per the 247 Sports composite eventually decommitted, then committed to and decommitted from Texas A&M, before choosing Ohio State. Martell played six games as a redshirt freshman behind Dwayne Haskins in 2018. He threw for 269 yards and a touchdown on 23 of 28 passing and rushed for two touchdowns. - Cleveland Plain Dealer

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QB Tate Martell, UNLV
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07/26/21 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

Arkansas football is picked to finish sixth in the SEC West in 2021. The SEC released a media poll Friday that had the Razorbacks ahead of Mississippi State but well behind fifth-place Auburn. Arkansas received 241 voting points in the poll, 24 more than the Bulldogs. Voting points are based on where a team is projected to finish, with more points awarded to teams that are placed higher on ballots.

Arkansas enters this fall coming off of a 3-7 season under first-year coach Sam Pittman. The Razorbacks defeated Mississippi State 21-14 on the road to snap a 20-game SEC losing streak, and Ole Miss and Tennessee at home behind impressive defensive performances. Alabama is an overwhelming favorite to win the SEC West, garnering 130 first-place votes. Texas A&M, LSU, Ole Miss and Arkansas each received one first-place vote. - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, UNLV
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07/25/21 - Charles Williams, rSr/2022, UNLV + More +

The Mountain West released its preseason football poll Thursday ahead of its annual media days at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and UNLV is in a familiar place. At the bottom. The Rebels were picked to finish last in the conference's West Division by a panel of the league's media, garnering a total of 26 points - the fewest among the 12 teams in the league. Rival UNR was picked first in the West, earning 19 votes and a total of 141 points. Boise State was picked to win the Mountain Division for the ninth consecutive season. UNLV coach Marcus Arroyo said the Rebels "pay very little attention" to the preseason poll, but noted that "if we start worrying about that stuff, we're worried about the wrong stuff." "What anybody decides where you get picked has nothing to do with your football team. We don't control that," he said. "The only thing we control is how we play and how we work together." - Las Vegas Review Journal

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RB Charles Williams, UNLV
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07/13/21 - Jarvis Ware, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

UCF added another SEC defender to its roster with the addition of Missouri cornerback Jarvis Ware, who committed to the Knights as a transfer. The Apopka native becomes the ninth player to join the program after spending time in the transfer portal. He signed with the Tigers out of Wekiva High as part of the 2018 recruiting class. Ware spent three seasons at Missouri, stepping into the starting role midway through the 2019 season. He finished with 50 career tackles and five passes defended but his biggest highlight came against Florida last season when he returned his first career interception 59 yards for a touchdown. UCF already landed several former SEC standouts through the transfer market, including running back Mark-Antony Richards (Auburn), defensive lineman Big Kat Bryant (Auburn) and Marco Domio (Auburn). - Orlando Sentinel

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CB Jarvis Ware, UNLV
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05/25/21 - Jarvis Ware, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

Missouri has lost another cornerback to the NCAA transfer portal. Jarvis Ware, who played in 28 games the last three years and made 15 starts over the last two seasons, entered the portal on Monday, he confirmed. As of Monday, he had not scheduled any recruiting visits, he said. Ware missed all of spring practices while recovering from a knee injury while living at his home in Apopka, Florida. Ware returned an interception for a touchdown at Florida last fall, the team's only interception by a cornerback over the last two seasons. Last month, newly arrived cornerback Jadarrius Perkins entered the portal and has since committed to Florida. Perkins came to Mizzou in January from junior college and was expected to compete for a starting job. The Tigers have one returning starting cornerback on the roster, Ennis Rakestraw Jr., who started all 10 games as a freshman last season. - Post-Dispatch

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CB Jarvis Ware, UNLV
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05/02/21 - Dominic Gicinto, rSr/2024, UNLV + More +

The New Mexico State football team picked up a second offensive player with SEC experience. The Aggies recently announced the signing of Dominic Gicinto, a 5-foot-10 slot receiver from Missouri. Gicinto will be eligible to play immediately and he has two years of eligibility remaining. Gicinto joins graduate transfer Eli Johnson from Mississippi as new offensive players for the Aggies in the fall. Johnson should start at the center position, and Gicinto gives the Aggies another target for either Jonah Johnson or Weston Eget. "(Aggies recruiting coordinator Cory Martin) found Dominic through recruiting ties with other coaches he knew," Aggies head coach Doug Martin said. "Dominic brings speed and a great run after the catch skill set. He will probably be the fastest wide receiver we have. He will be an inside receiver for us and line up in the backfield at times also." Like Johnson, Gicinto entered the transfer portal following a coaching change. "That didn't really stand out other than I saw that the team was in a rebuild and it seemed like a good place if you wanted to be part of something great," Gicinto said. - Las Cruces Sun News

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WR Dominic Gicinto, UNLV
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05/01/21 - Dominic Gicinto, rSr/2024, UNLV + More +

WR Dominic Gicinto, UNLV
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04/12/21 - Charles Williams, rSr/2022, UNLV + More +

Charles Williams has done a lot during his time at UNLV. The sixth-year running back has a 1,000-yard season, 19 career touchdowns and an All-Mountain West selection to his name. But his biggest accomplishment came last week, when he welcomed his daughter into the world. The first-time father said his daughter, Kamiyah, weighed in at six pounds, six ounces and measured 20 inches (she got her height from her mom, the 5-foot-9 Williams said). "It was a great experience watching her come into the world," Williams said. "I was speechless … She makes me happy every day I come home. I'm glad I've got her in my life now." The sure-handed back said that handling a newborn is not all that different from securing the football. "Basically the same: Don't drop it," Williams said. - Las Vegas Sun

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RB Charles Williams, UNLV
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04/09/21 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

After putting together the kind of season that has come along only once over the last decade-plus, Jalen Catalon had one thing on his mind during the offseason. That was to become a more consistent player, he said Tuesday following Arkansas' 10th practice of the spring. Despite being the first SEC freshman since Tennessee's Eric Berry in 2007 to finish with at least 86 tackles and three interceptions, he's driven to be better. He totaled 99 tackles, broke up 4 passes and forced 2 fumbles although he missed the equivalent of one game in a 10-game All-SEC schedule due to targeting disqualifications.

Catalon, too, was a first-team Freshman All-American by the Football Writers Association of America, the first Razorback to earn the nod since Dre Greenlaw in 2015. But he has continued to work as if he was snubbed by voters. "I feel like I led more just by the way I play, but I realized that people pick up off my energy, and I feel like my words hold power to our defense and they listen," Catalon said. "I'm trying to be more of a leader as far as like me communicating that and showing my actions, and just being a consistent player to help my defense. "I feel like I made a lot of plays, but there were also a lot of plays I left out there last year in watching film with my coach this past year." - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, UNLV
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03/01/21 - Jose Pizano, rSr/2024, UNLV + More +

MARCH 1 MISSOURI VALLEY TOP PERFORMANCES: PK Jose Pizano, Missouri State - Bears placekicker Jose Pizano converted all three field goal attempts and all three extra point tries to lift the Bears to a 30-24 win at Western Illinois. His 37-yard FG on MSU's opening possession of the third quarter tied the game, 17-17, before he gave the Bears the lead on their first drive of the fourth with a 43-yarder. Finally, his 33-yard attempt with 3:48 to play in the game split the uprights and gave the Bears a six-point cushion in the deciding moments. Pizano extended his string to six straight made field goals on the season and also averaged 51.6 yards on 7 kickoffs. - Missouri Valley Conference Football

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K Jose Pizano, UNLV
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01/28/21 - Tate Martell, rSr/2023, UNLV + More +

It appears quarterback Tate Martell's football career is not over. Martell, the 2016 Gatorade Player of the Year and former wildly popular Ohio State Buckeye before he transferred to Miami in January 2019, entered the NCAA transfer portal Wednesday. The news was first reported by 247Sports, which later reported that redshirt junior running back Robert Burns, who had only 16 carries in 2020, has also entered the portal. Martell had opted out of the 2020 football season after the NCAA allowed it because of the coronavirus pandemic. - Miami Herald

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QB Tate Martell, UNLV
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01/25/21 - Elijah Shelton, rSr/2024, UNLV + More +

The Utah football team will be the recipient of an in-state player who has been in the transfer portal. On Friday, former Utah State linebacker/defensive end Elijah Shelton announced via Twitter that he has committed to the Utes after announcing on Jan. 13 that he was entering the portal. Listed by Utah State at 6-foot-1 and 230 pounds, Shelton played in five games for the Aggies as a redshirt sophomore in 2020, tallying 15 tackles (nine solo), including 3.5 for loss and two sacks. He also recovered one fumble. - Deseret News

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DE Elijah Shelton, UNLV
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01/25/21 - Elijah Shelton, rSr/2024, UNLV + More +

Shelton, a former Aggie outside linebacker, entered the portal earlier this month and announced his landing spot Friday on Twitter. The redshirt sophomore is headed to the University of Utah. Shelton played in five games this past season for the Aggies, primarily as a second-stringer, and contributed with 15 tackles, including 3.5 for a loss, 2.0 sacks and one pass breakup. The former Highland High star finished with 23 tackles in nine games for USU in 2019. - Herald Journal Tribune

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DE Elijah Shelton, UNLV
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01/19/21 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2025, UNLV + More +

University of Arkansas safety Jalen Catalon capped off an outstanding season on Monday by being named to the first-team Freshman All-American unit selected by the Football Writers Association of America. Catalon, a redshirt freshman from Mansfield, Texas, is the first Razorback voted onto the FWAA Freshman All-America team since linebacker Dre Greenlaw in 2015. The 5-10, 189-pounder racked up 99 tackles, 4 pass breakups, 3 interceptions and 2 forced fumbles despite missing the equivalent of one game in the Razorbacks' all-SEC schedule. - Northwest Arkansas Times

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