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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, 6-2, 232 (DS#112 DE) + 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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01/06/21 - Jayvaun Wilson, rSr/2024, UNLV, 6-1, 210 (DS#999 RB) + More +

A second Oregon player has entered the transfer portal this offseason. Reserve running back Jayvaun Wilson, entered the portal on Monday, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Wilson, a redshirt freshman, did not appear in a game during his two seasons at UO. - The Oregonian

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RB Jayvaun Wilson, UNLV
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01/02/21 - Connor Murphy, rSr/2022, UNLV, 6-6, 270 (DS#999 DE) + More +

Redshirt senior defensive end Connor Murphy became the latest USC player to announce his intent to play elsewhere next season. With the NCAA affording players an additional year of eligibility because of the pandemic, Murphy will have an extra available season to use wherever he may land. Murphy came to USC as a four-star prospect at outside linebacker, but never quite found a consistent role in the rotation. This season, with a new defensive staff in place, his playing time at defensive end diminished even further. Murphy played in three of six games this season, registering three tackles and a fumble recovery. - Los Angeles Times

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DE Connor Murphy, UNLV
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12/10/20 - Vincent Davis Jr., rSr/2024, UNLV, 5-08, 174 (DS#58 RB) + More +

Vincent Davis rushed for a career-best 247 yards, including a 74-yard scamper on the first play of the game and a late touchdown that clinched Pittsburgh's 34-20 victory over Georgia Tech on Thursday night. In the makeup of a game that was postponed last month because of COVID-19 issues, the Panthers (6-5, 5-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) finished off a winning regular season and defied their standing as one of the league's worst rushing teams.

Davis, whose previous high was 69 yards in last year's Quick Lane Bowl, eclipsed that on the first snap against Georgia Tech (3-7, 3-6). The sophomore burst through a huge hole up the middle and took off with no one around, finally getting dragged down at the Georgia Tech 9 to set up the first of four short field goals by Alex Kessman. Davis finished off his dynamic performance with a 38-yard touchdown run with 2 minutes remaining. He also had runs of 32 and 21 yards, averaging 9.9 yards on 25 carries. The Panthers finished with 317 yards on the ground after coming into the night ranked 13th in the ACC at 104.5 per game. - AP College Football

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RB Vincent Davis Jr., UNLV
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12/09/20 - Max Gilliam, rSr/2022, UNLV, 6-2, 200 (DS#999 QB) + More +

UNLV quarterback Max Gilliam recently had an unexpected star turn, appearing in a multi-episode arc on the Bravo TV reality show "Below Deck." The show, in its eighth season, focuses on the crew of a yacht and the rotating cast of clients who charter the vessel. Gilliam's first appearance aired last month. He was identified in the episode as a "star quarterback at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas." So what is Gilliam, a native of Thousand Oaks, California, who is sharing first-team reps at quarterback at UNLV, doing on a reality series in the Caribbean? The team, which is scheduled to play its final game of the season Saturday at Hawaii, declined to make Gilliam available to discuss it. A UNLV spokesman said coach Marcus Arroyo did not have a comment.

This much we know about the show: Unlike many reality series, charter guests don't get paid for appearances. According to BravoTV.com, the guests pay to charter the boats, which cost between $140,000 and $175,000 a week during the show's first two seasons. Also, the guests are expected to provide a generous tip at the end of their voyage. While all indications are that Gilliam was not compensated for his appearance on the show, it would have been allowed under a new NCAA ruling that allows college athletes to benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness in a manner consistent with the collegiate model. - Las Vegas Review Journal

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QB Max Gilliam, UNLV
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11/30/20 - Keyvone Lee, rSr/2026, UNLV, 6-0, 225 (DS#71 RB) + More +

NOV 30 BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK: Keyvone Lee, Penn State, RB, St. Petersburg, Fla./American Collegiate Academy,...Rushed for a career-high 134 yards in Penn State’s victory at Michigan...Recorded the most rushing yards by a Penn State freshman since Saquon Barkley's 194 yards at Ohio State in 2015...Opened the scoring with a six-yard touchdown run on the first drive of the game...Collects his first career Freshman of the Week award...Last Penn State Freshman of the Week: Jayson Oweh (Oct. 28, 2019). - Big Ten football

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RB Keyvone Lee, UNLV
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11/22/20 - Dominic Gicinto, rSr/2024, UNLV, 5-09, 183 (DS#175 WR) + More +

Missouri junior slot receiver Dominic Gicinto has entered the NCAA transfer portal, the team confirmed Wednesday, giving the Tigers one fewer scholarship player for Saturday's game at South Carolina. As of Tuesday, Mizzou had 56 scholarship players available, just three more than the Southeastern Conference roster threshold for COVID-19 protocols. The SEC roster threshold is considered a guideline more than a strict requirement. "The impacted institution has the option to play the game with fewer than the 53 scholarship players or fewer than the minimum number of position players...if it elects to do so," SEC spokesperson Chuck Dunlap said in an email Wednesday. That means the Tigers (2-3) could slip below the SEC's 53-player threshold and still elect to play Saturday's game at South Carolina (2-5). Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz talked Wednesday as if he expects the Tigers to play Saturday.

"I look forward to the opportunity," he said during the SEC's conference call. "Obviously in this year anytime you get an opportunity to play the game you got to relish it. And that's what we're focusing on trying to do." Gicinto told Drinkwitz about his decision after Tuesday's practice. "He felt like he wanted to find a better offensive fit and a better cultural fit," Drinkwitz said. "Obviously, we weren't here to recruit him. We're different than what they've been used to or what they recruited to. It's all about trying to find the right fit. We wish him well and absolutely all the best to him as he's moving forward." - Post-Dispatch

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WR Dominic Gicinto, UNLV
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11/22/20 - Justin Flowe, rSr/2026, UNLV, 6-2, 220 (DS#16 ILB) + More +

Oregon Ducks freshman linebacker Justin Flowe has a torn meniscus and will miss the rest of the 2020 season, a source confirmed to The Oregonian/OregonLive on Tuesday afternoon. The top-ranked linebacker and one of the top recruits in the country in the 2020 class, Flowe did not play in Oregon's win at Washington State and was not seen on the sideline, though Ducks coach Mario Cristobal said he traveled but was unavailable. Prior to the game, Flowe posted to Instagram that he would not be playing due to an injury but would "be back real soon ready and hungry." Tuesday morning, a member of Flowe's high school coaching staff tweeted that the former 5-star prospect tore his meniscus and would have surgery on Wednesday, which Flowe reposted to Instagram. Flowe, Oregon's backup weak-side linebacker, had one tackle in the season opener against Stanford. - Oregonian

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ILB Justin Flowe, UNLV
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11/03/20 - Ricky White III, rSr/2025, UNLV, 6-1, 184 (DS#23 WR) + More +

Rocky to Ricky. Over and over. A star was born. A quarterback validated. And Michigan State football pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the 113-game rivalry against Michigan, a 27-24 victory Saturday that Rocky Lombardi and Ricky White dominated from start to finish. White, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound true freshman from Marietta, Georgia, caught eight passes for 196 yards, the seventh-highest single-game total in MSU history, and the second-most against the Wolverines behind Plaxico Burress' 255 yards in 1999. "First, I just want to give huge credit to Rocky," White said. "He played an awesome game today, he made some great passes. All week at practice, it's been getting prepared for this game." White set an MSU freshman record, smashing the 165 yards by Cody White against Northwestern in 2017.

Ricky White - stepping into the starting lineup for an injured Tre Mosley - became an unstoppable force against No. 14 Michigan's secondary. He and Lombardi stretched the field all afternoon, starting with a 30-yard touchdown that put the Spartans on the board just over four minutes into the game. "He's done a good job in practice," said first-year coach Mel Tucker, who scouted White while at Colorado and inherited him as part of Mark Dantonio's final recruiting class. "I remember him in high school. We saw him as a player and thought that he was an outstanding player. Guys that step on the field on game day, they step on the field because of what they've done in practice. And so we've seen him make plays. We were not surprised." - Lansing State Journal

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WR Ricky White III, UNLV
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11/02/20 - Ricky White III, rSr/2025, UNLV, 6-1, 184 (DS#23 WR) + More +

NOV 2 BIG TEN CO-FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK: Ricky White, Michigan State, WR, Marietta, Ga./Marietta,...Set a school record for a freshman with 196 receiving yards in a win at Michigan on Saturday...Caught eight passes in the contest, including a 30-yard touchdown reception to open the scoring in the first quarter...Added a 50-yard reception on Michigan State's opening possession of the second half to set up a Spartans' field goal and a 31-yard catch late in the fourth quarter to give his team first-and-goal and set up the Spartans' game-sealing touchdown...Earns his first career Freshman of the Week award...Last Michigan State Freshman of the Week: Rocky Lombardi (Oct. 29, 2018). - Big Ten football

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WR Ricky White III, UNLV
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10/02/20 - Vincent Davis Jr., rSr/2024, UNLV, 5-08, 174 (DS#58 RB) + 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, 5-11, 205 (DS#999 QB) + 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, 6-1, 248 (DS#105 OLB) + 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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08/17/20 - Troy Omeire, rSr/2026, UNLV, 6-3, 220 (DS#999 WR) + More +

Texas coach Tom Herman likely was trying to be optimistic Saturday when he said freshman receiver Troy Omeire simply "tweaked" his knee. It was far worse. The university confirmed Sunday that Omeire had suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament injury and will miss the 2020 season. UT called it a non-contact injury but will still require surgery. "This a little setback...I'll be back better than I ever was," Omeire tweeted Sunday morning. Texas had gone through just eight practices and one intrasquad scrimmage. But Omeire, a 6-foor-3 standout from Sugar Land, had already turned head with some sensational grabs. Herman said Omeire left Saturday's scrimmage after he "tweaked his knee." Omeire was ranked 48th on the American-Stateman's Fab 55 recruiting list. He had 65 catches for 906 yards and 10 receiving touchdowns as a senior. - Austin American Statesman

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WR Troy Omeire, UNLV
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