In the listings posted here recently of former Dartmouth players continuing their careers elsewhere I've left out Seth Simmer '20, a defensive tackle at Samford.
This one is totally on me, although let me explain.
If you count spring of 2021, this is the seventh college football season of some sort since Simmer's freshman fall with the Big Green in 2016. I honestly thought he'd finally used up his eligibility.
Simmer played on the Dartmouth junior varsity in '16 and then missed the '17 season after having a brain tumor removed. Fully recovered from the surgery, he played his first full varsity season at Dartmouth as a junior in 2018 and then had 26 tackles playing in 2019, his true senior season.
Simmer had been granted a medical redshirt to play as a fifth-year senior at Dartmouth in 2020 only to have the Ivy League season canceled. He chose to graduate and enrolled as a grad student at Samford.
With its fall season canceled because of COVID, Samford and Simmer played a seven-game spring season in the 2020-21 school year. He finished with 33 tackles for the 4-3 Bulldogs.
Simmer returned to the field last fall, finishing fourth on the team with 35 tackles including seven for a loss while earning a spot on the All-SoCon second team as Samford went 4-7 overall and 3-5 in conference.
Now back for a final year, Simmer made five tackles last week to help Samford open with a big 27-17 win over Kennesaw State, then-ranked No 8 in the FCS.
The challenge gets much, much, much harder Saturday afternoon when Samford heads between the hedges to face Georgia, ranked No. 2 and we're not talking about the FCS this time!
Find Seth's Samford bio HERE.
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Weights have been updated on the Dartmouth football website roster. Given how they can change daily, the weights have wisely been rounded off by fives, with a good percentage of the players added five pounds since last fall.
Here are the players reported with gains of more than five pounds:
• Junior defensive end Dylan Lacroix up 30 pounds to 230
• Senior linebacker Marques White up 25 pounds to 235
• Sophomore defensive lineman Josiah Green up 20 pounds to 255
• Fifth year defensive lineman Bobby Jefferson up 20 pounds to 295
• Sophomore running back Q Jones up 15 pounds to 190
• Sophomore offensive lineman James Coslet up 15 pounds to 275
• Junior linebacker Danny Cronin up 15 pounds to 225
• Junior linebacker Trevon Erickson up 15 pounds to 240
• Junior offensive lineman Ethan Sipe up 15 pounds to 260
• Senior tight end Zion Carter up 15 pounds to 265
Reported as adding 10 pounds were sophomore linebacker Micah Green, sophomore running back Christian Benson, sophomore defensive lineman Derrell Porter, sophomore defensive lineman Zachary Lytle, junior linebacker Macklin Ayers, junior defensive end Dario Arazi, sophomore linebacker Reese Spence, sophomore offensive lineman Konstantin Spörk and senior defensive lineman Charles Looes.
Major movers in the other direction were led by:
• Sophomore offensive lineman Cayman Duncan down 30 pounds to 280
• Junior offensive lineman Thomas Hartnett down 25 pounds to 290
• Sophomore safety Dillon Holifield down 10 pounds to 190
All totaled, 19 players are listed lighter than they were a year ago, most by five pounds.
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Last night's BGA Premium posting reported on a second intrasquad scrimmage Thursday that head coach Buddy Teevens graded out as a B-plus. With no practice today, check the site out tonight for a BGA overview of the 2022 Ivy League race (with predictions). Tomorrow's BGA will continue the positional series with a look at the quarterbacks. The series is scheduled to conclude with a look at the offensive line on Sunday – barring an audible ;-)
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EXTRA POINT
Working on a project I'm in need of one small but important piece of information that I haven't been able to nail down. I gave it a shot yesterday, hanging around campus for an extra hour hoping to corner someone who had the answer. Back home, I sent an email to no avail yet. I hate calling busy people to bug them, but I may have no choice.
I was tempted to send a link to this 15-second video clip from The Sandlot that ends with a saying I've seen on a few T-shirts that sums things up nicely:
