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 Draft Scout College Football Player News: Utah State
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  Spencer Petras threw for three touchdowns and ran for two and No. 5 Iowa took advantage of seven Maryland turnovers in a 51-14 victory Friday night. The Hawkeyes (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) intercepted five of Taulia Tagovailoa's passes, and they outscored the Terrapins 31-0 in the second quarter as Maryland completely unraveled. The Terps (4-1, 1-1) never recovered after losing standout receiver Dontay Demus to an apparent leg injury on a kickoff return early in the second.

Iowa beat Iowa State earlier this season thanks to a plus-four turnover margin on a day the Hawkeyes were badly outgained. The matchup with Maryland was an even more extreme version of that. The Terrapins turned the ball over five times in the first half and four times in the second quarter. Tagovailoa had thrown only one interception all season — while leading the Big Ten in yards passing — but he was picked off on the Terrapins' second possession Friday in a sign of things to come. That turnover led to a field goal that opened the scoring, but Maryland responded sharply, driving 69 yards in eight plays and taking the lead on a 9-yard scoring pass from Tagovailoa to Chigoziem Okonkwo. - Iowa/AP College Football

rSr/2025 QB Spencer Petras, Utah State
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  Iowa made it through September undefeated with the remainder of the Big Ten schedule looming. But it wasn't easy for the No. 5 Hawkeyes to get to this point. They opened the season with wins against ranked teams Indiana and Iowa State. A home win over Kent State followed. Then came Saturday's game against Colorado State, and it turned out to be the biggest challenge so far for the Hawkeyes. Spencer Petras threw for 224 yards and two touchdowns as Iowa needed a second-half comeback to win 24-14.

The Hawkeyes (4-0), who trailed at halftime for the first time this season, won their 10th consecutive game, the program's longest streak since winning 12 games to open the 2015 season. Iowa also has a 15-game nonconference winning streak, the longest current streak in the nation. "I think our guys were trying today, and we had practiced well," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. "But it just wasn't clicking for us." The Hawkeyes were pushed by the Rams (1-3), who led 14-7 at halftime. "We certainly got stressed, which is going to help us," Ferentz said. Iowa rallied with touchdowns on back-to-back possessions that took a combined four plays in the third quarter. - Iowa/AP College Football

rSr/2025 QB Spencer Petras, Utah State
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  SEPT 20 MOUNTAIN WEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: JUSTIN RICE, UTAH STATE, Senior, Linebacker, Modesto, California/Arkansas State,...In a Mountain West-opening victory at Air Force, tied a career high with 14 tackles, including a pair of tackles for loss, to go along with an interception and forced fumble...In the four-point victory, the interception came in the end zone, ending an Air Force scoring drive...Forced fumble came on Air Force's final drive of the game late in the fourth quarter with the Aggies leading 49-45. Utah State got the ball back on its own 25-yard line and the offense ran out the remainder of the clock. - Mountain West Football

rSr/2022 ILB Justin Rice, Utah State
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  Calvin Tyler Jr. raced 61 yards for the go-ahead touchdown with just under four minutes to play to lift Utah State to a 49-45 win over Air Force in the Mountain West Conference opener Saturday night. The Aggies, who had just one win a year ago, won their third straight game to open the season for the first time since 1978. Tyler carried 19 times for 132 yards and two touchdowns to lead Utah State while Logan Bonner completed 21 of 34 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns. Andrew Peasley threw three second-half touchdown passes, including a 72-yard bomb to Deven Thompkins with 9:51 to go to pull the Aggies within a touchdown of the Falcons, 45-40.

Air Force took a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, but Bonner engineered a 13-play, 71-yard drive capped by Tyler's first touchdown, then drove the Aggies 92 yards in 11 plays on their next series, giving them a 13-10 lead after hitting Brandon Bowling from six-yards out. Haaziq Daniels connected with Micah Davis on a 56-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter to put Air Force back in front and Dane Kinamon scored just before intermission to put the Falcons in front, 24-13. - Utah State/AP College Football

rSr/2023 RB Calvin Tyler Jr., Utah State
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  SEPT 13 MOUNTAIN WEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: JUSTIN RICE, UTAH STATE, Senior, Linebacker, Modesto, California/Arkansas State,...In a victory over North Dakota, registered a career-high two interceptions to go along with a season-best nine tackles, including one for loss...The two interceptions were tied for the second-most in a single game this season...The second interception led to the last touchdown. - Mountain West Football

rSr/2022 ILB Justin Rice, Utah State
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  Logan Bonner passed for a career-best 390 yards with four touchdowns as Utah State clawed out of an early hole to rally past North Dakota 41-24 on Friday night. Bonner more than doubled his passing yards from the 143 in Utah State's last-minute upset at Washington State last week, and matched his career high with four touchdowns. The Aggies (2-0) trailed 21-7 after North Dakota's dizzying first-quarter saw three different passers throw for touchdowns on the first three possessions. But from there, Utah State outscored North Dakota 41-3.

North Dakota's Tommy Schuster was 29-of-43 passing for 348 yards with a touchdown. Otis Weah, who posted 114 yards and three touchdowns in the season opener, was held to 47 yards on 17 carries Friday with no scores. After a field goal to open the second half, the Fighting Hawks (1-1), ranked No. 6 in the FCS coaches poll, were forced to punt away their next four possessions while Utah State went on a scoring spree. Bonner had touchdown passes of 54, 4, 75 and 41 yards. One play after his lone interception on the night led to a North Dakota field goal, Bonner found Deven Thompkins on swing pass for a one-play, 75-yard touchdown sprint up the left sideline that put the Aggies up for the first time, 27-24, just 12 seconds later. - Utah State/AP College Football

rSr/2023 QB Logan Bonner, Utah State
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  SEPT 6 MOUNTAIN WEST SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: CONNOR COLES, UTAH STATE, Senior, Place-Kicker, Bozeman, Montana/Bozeman HS,...Scored 10 points in Utah State's comeback victory on the road at Washington State (26-23)...Was a perfect 3-for-3 on field goal attempts, connecting from 23, 39 and 28 yards out, respectively, and made his lone PAT...This was the Aggies first win over an autonomous-5 opponent since 2014. - Mountain West Football

rSr/2023 K Connor Coles, Utah State
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  Logan Bonner threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Deven Thompkins with 11 seconds left to lift Utah State to a 26-23 victory over Washington State on Saturday night. Utah State (1-0) got the ball back on its own 22 with 3:02 left and Bonner drove them to the winning score in Blake Anderson's first game as the Aggies' coach. Bonner completed a pass to Derek Wright for a two-point conversion and the final score.

Max Borghi ran for 86 yards and a touchdown for Washington State (0-1) of the Pac-12, which finished 1-3 last year. "Food is going to taste better. Beds are gonna be softer," Anderson said after becoming the first Utah State coach in more than 40 years to win his opening game. "This is a memory I'll never forget." "I'm not surprised at all," Anderson said of the upset win. "We did not play our best football," he said. "All in all we made the plays we absolutely had to make." Anderson said the outcome did not settle the battle over who should be the team's starting quarterback. - Utah State/AP College Football

rSr/2023 QB Logan Bonner, Utah State
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  Alabama wide receiver Xavier Williams will not play in 2021 because of "medical issues," coach Nick Saban revealed Wednesday evening. Williams, who was entering his fourth season with the Tide, was removed from the roster prior to fall camp. "Without saying what, he's medically not gonna play this year," Saban said. Williams was a four-star recruit from Florida in 2018 who did not see significant time on offense in his first three seasons with the Tide. His playing time did increase toward the end of last season, and he recorded a catch in each of the final three games against Florida, Notre Dame and Ohio State -- the only three catches of his college career. How much playing time he would have received in 2021 was uncertain after Alabama added Ohio State transfer Jameson Williams in the offseason, giving the Tide a speed threat to pair with John Metchie and Slade Bolden. - Birmingham News

rSr/2024 WR Xavier Williams, Utah State
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  Redshirt junior wide receiver Xavier Williams is not listed on Alabama football's updated online roster. He also was not included in the media guide, but he participated in the spring and played in the A-Day Game. As of Tuesday, Williams was not listed in the transfer portal. Williams saw action in six games in 2020, four of which came in the last four games of Alabama football's undefeated season. He caught three receptions for 24 yards over the season. One of those came against Ohio State in the national championship game. A native of Hollywood, Florida, Williams was a four-star wide receiver coming out of high school. He redshirted in 2018 before playing in four games in 2019. - Montgomery Advertiser

rSr/2024 WR Xavier Williams, Utah State
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  As far as prestigious individual awards go, speedy kickoff returner Savon Scarver has won nearly every one of them during his record-setting career at Utah State. After all, Scarver was a consensus All-American as a sophomore for the Aggies in 2018, and the only way to accomplish that feat is to be recognized as a first-team All-American by three different official selectors (outlets). Additionally, the Las Vegas native garnered first-team all-Mountain West honors as a sophomore and junior, plus he received the Jet Award in '18, which is given annually to the nation's most outstanding return specialist.

The one major award that has eluded the former high school track & field state champion is Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Year. This is Scarver's final chance for that accolade, but he is the favorite according to members of the media that cover the conference. The senior was selected as the league's preseason Special Teams Player of the Year, it was announced Thursday as part of the Mountain West's annual football media days. The two-day event concluded Thursday at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. - Herald Journal Tribune

rSr/2022 WR Savon Scarver, Utah State
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  When junior quarterback Spencer Petras addressed the media this past spring, he said he didn't care what the fans thought, he's going to get better. "No offense to the fans, but I could (not) care less about what they have to say about our performance," Petras said in April. "I'm focused on improving and having a great spring." Like any young quarterback, he's under a microscope, but this year he has more time to prepare for his second season as the leader of Iowa's offense. "I will say his timing is better, his leadership is better, accuracy is better," junior wide receiver Tyrone Tracy said Tuesday. "Last year he kind of was timid, he really didn't command the field, but I feel like this year, he's definitely gaining the respect of his teammates. He's one of the hardest workers, so I feel like that's another way he's going to gain a lot of respect."

Tracy added Petras has been passing to him three to four times a week during the past three weeks of summer conditioning, and as the new leader of the wide receiving corps has focused his energy on strengthening that chemistry off the field. Part of that, senior wide receiver Nico Ragaini adds, is taking advantage of the communication they didn't have last offseason. "Sometimes routes don't look the way he wants them to look and we talk about it," Ragaini said. "It helps just knowing what each other wants and how to get the ball." - The Gazette

rSr/2025 QB Spencer Petras, Utah State
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  The preseason awards are starting to roll in for the most decorated kickoff returner in Utah State history. Senior Savon Scarver was tabbed a fourth-team preseason All-American by Phil Steele Magazine, in addition to garnering a spot on this same publication's all-Mountain West first team. USU graduate transfer linebacker Justin Rice has also been named to Phil Steele's preseason all-MW first team, plus he secured a spot on Athlon Sport's all-conference second team. - Herald Journal Tribune

rSr/2022 WR Savon Scarver, Utah State
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  A private coach who is working with Spencer Petras over the next week on the East Coast thinks Iowa's presumed starting quarterback is poised to take a big step forward this season for the Hawkeyes. "I see big things coming for him," Tony Racioppi said Thursday. Racioppi is in his eighth year as a quarterback guru at the TEST Football Academy in Martinsville, New Jersey - not far from the campus at Rutgers. A former Division III passing star at Rowan College, Racioppi also is a primary counselor at the famous Manning Passing Academy every summer and said he's had 25 of his quarterbacks sign in the NFL.

One of those quarterbacks is three-year Iowa starter Nate Stanley, who Racioppi worked with ahead of the 2020 NFL Draft. Stanley's connection to Racioppi led to Petras' trip out East. Another half-dozen or so FBS quarterbacks are also being trained by Racioppi this week, as spring practices have wrapped up nationwide. And now hungry signal callers like Petras are soaking up supplemental training. In an interview with the Des Moines Register, Racioppi said he wanted to make clear that Petras' hiring him shouldn't be seen as a knock on the Iowa coaching staff. In fact, Racioppi said he and Iowa quarterbacks coach Ken O'Keefe are in regular contact. Racioppi also coaches a Class of 2023 quarterback, Marco Lainez, that Iowa has offered. "(Petras) is trying to find ways to make himself better," Racioppi said. "Coach O'Keefe lets me know what stuff he wants him to get better at, and that's what we'll do." - Iowa City Press-Citizen

rSr/2025 QB Spencer Petras, Utah State
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  The Nebraska football team signed four receivers in its 2019 scholarship recruiting class. None of them remain on the team. That's how it stands after redshirt freshman Jamie Nance on Sunday entered his name in the transfer portal, a move confirmed by the Journal Star. The 6-foot, 180-pound Nance never caught a pass at Nebraska and clearly was low on the depth chart coming out of spring drills. He didn't appear in a game last season and in 2019 appeared in only one. A native of Blanchard, Oklahoma, Nance became the second wide receiver in Nebraska's Class of 2019 in as many days to announce his departure. Saturday, Demariyon Houston, an Oklahoma City native, entered the portal. That followed the previous departures of Darien Chase (Portland State) and Wan'Dale Robinson (Kentucky). - Lincoln Journal Star

rJr/2025 CB Jamie Nance, Utah State
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