Committed! Go Rams! @CSUFootball pic.twitter.com/IGtwORkGFg
— Tristan Holmbeck (@HolmbeckTristan) April 4, 2025
Six-foot-four, 295-pound offensive lineman Tristan Holmbeck posted his decision to social media and gets a quick mention in a story about additions to the Colorado State roster HERE. He was eligible for a fifth year by NCAA standards after not seeing action as a freshman at Dartmouth.
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Thanks to a reader who pointed out that I left JC Tretter off the list of Cornell alums to have had their name called at the NFL Draft. Tretter was taken in the fourth round of the 2013 draft by the Packers and was the 122nd player chosen. He went on to play eight years and as the reader reminded us, served as president of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) from 2020 to 2024.
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The same website that listed Ivy League draft choices, also has a list of the number of players from each Ivy League school who played in the NFL or AFL dating back to 1920. Here's how many players are listed for each school:
65 Penn
52 Brown
43 Harvard
42 Dartmouth
42 Columbia
41 Cornell
40 Princeton
36 Yale
Green Alert Take: There's no way I would have believed Yale would be last among Ivy League schools and Brown would have been third, but there you have it. Stop by tomorrow to see the full list of Dartmouth players and a link to the listing for each school.
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EXTRA POINT
The U.S. Postal Service returned a Christmas card to us yesterday because the recipient had moved and apparently hadn't filed a change of address. The card was postmarked Dec. 17. Gotta wonder where the card was in the interim.
