Thursday, April 13, 2023

Names And Numbers

The Dartmouth football roster has been updated for the spring. It currently lists eight players who will be fifth-year seniors in the fall along with 28 rising seniors, 30 players who will be juniors in the fall and 24 who will be sophomores.

Find the roster HERE (but wait for the preseason roster for updated heights and weights).

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Dartmouth had 15 players named to the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame (NFF) Hampshire Honor Society. Per the NFF, to qualify for the honor players must have a cumulative 3.2 grade point average, have just used up their eligibility or graduated and been "starters or significant contributors throughout the 2022 season."

Named from Dartmouth:

POS


GPA

MAJOR

P

Cameron Baller

3.67

Biology

TE

Zion Carter

3.36

Economics

WR

Dale Chesson

3.37

Engineering

DL

Shane Cokes

3.37

Government

PK

Zach Drescher

3.56

Film and Media Studies

OL

Michael Flores

3.51

Religion

DB

Tyron Herring

3.29

Government

DL

Bobby Jefferson

3.41

History

TE

Joe Kramer

3.48

Economics

OL

Griff Lehman

3.84

Engineering

QB

Gavin Muir

3.33

Economics

RB

Noah Roper

3.67

Philosophy

DL

Alex Schmidt

3.35

English

LB

Jack Sheridan

3.45

Economics

OL

Adam Will

3.25

Government

Only three schools in Division I could claim more honorees – Harvard with a Hampshire Honor Society record 27, and Brown and Cal with 18 apiece. Players recognized from the Ivy League:

Harvard - 27
Brown - 18
Dartmouth - 15
Columbia - 10
Princeton - 8
Yale - 7
Penn - 3
Cornell - 2

Find the full list of players honored HERE. 

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Former Dartmouth special teams ace Adam Scheier '95 gets a mention in a story about his daughter, Callie, a graduating point guard at High Point University who was part of the inaugural Women's Basketball Student-Athlete Engagement Group at the women's Final Four. (LINK)

Scheier, who got his coaching start with the undefeated 1996 Big Green, is now the special teams coach at Temple. Since moving on from Dartmouth he's been on staff at Columbia, Princeton, Lehigh, Bowling Green, Wake Forest, Ohio State, Texas Tech, Mississippi State and Rutgers.

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The Analyst's Craig Haley has a piece headlined 2023 NFL Draft: Average Round Projections for Top 50 FCS Prospects that lists Princeton wide receiver Andrei Iosivas as the third-rated FCS prospect. From the story (LINK):

3. Andrei Iosivas, Princeton, WR, 6-3, 205

Average Projection: Round 5 (4 Draft Scout, 6 Draft Bible, 4 Draft Network, 3-4 Draft Buzz, 7-PFA Pro Football Focus)

Notable: Recorded Ivy League’s receiving Triple Crown as a senior; clocked 4.43 seconds in 40-yard dash at NFL Combine

The only other Ivy player to make the list is tied for 25th in the rankings and classified as a likely Priority Free Agent: 

T25. Truman Jones, Harvard, OLB, 6-2 1/2, 251

Average Projection: PFA (FA Draft Scout, PFA Draft Bible, FA Draft Network, PFA Draft Buzz, PFA Pro Football Focus)

Notable: Ivy League’s co-defensive player of the year blocked kicks in three consecutive games

Haley's column includes FCS graduates who finished their careers at FBS schools. Dartmouth is familiar with one of those names, who is in the Top Undrafted Free Agents category:

JD DiRenzo, Sacred Heart/Rutgers, OG, 6-4 1/2, 314

Average Projection: FA (FA Draft Scout, PFA Draft Bible, FA Draft Network, FA Draft Buzz, FA Pro Football Focus)

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I'd heard mention that prolific author John Feinstein was in the information-gathering stage for a book about Ivy League football and so he is:

(Thanks for the link.) 

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Dartmouth will be back on the field for the fifth practice of the spring this evening. Be sure to visit BGA Premium for a story centered on a position group that I was planning to write about tonight (well before a regular emailer encouraged me to do so. ;-)

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EXTRA POINT 
Mind blown . . .



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