How About That?

Grayson Saunier didn't have the flashiest numbers in the Ivy League last year but per a story posted on the FCS Football Central On SI site, the Dartmouth quarterback is deserving of national attention this fall. The site has a piece headlined Summer Scouting: Top FCS QB Prospects To Watch In The 2027 NFL Draft, that features capsules on six quarterbacks and Saunier is one of the six.

The six QBs profiled:

Ty Pennington (Northern Arizona)

Justin Lamson (Montana State)

DJ Williams (Southern Illinois)

Grayson Saunier (Dartmouth)

Jordan Cooke (Idaho State)

Chase Mason (South Dakota State)

Here's what the writeup included about Saunier:

Height: 6021

Weight: 209 lbs.

2025 Stats: 183-of-279 passes for 2,143 passing yards, 9 passing TDs, 7 INTs, 413 rushing yards, 11 rushing TDs (10 games)

Strengths

• Good overall athlete

• Quick throwing motion

• Effective on rollouts

• Displays toughness as a passer and runner

• Good anticipatory thrower

The story includes six more quarterbacks in the "Sleeper QB Prospects" category, and Brown's James Murphy is included on that list. 

Find the full story HERE. 

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HERO Sports continues its countdown to the season with the "best" player wearing the uniform bearing the number of the days until the first FCS game, and a seventh Ivy Leaguer (and eighth Dartmouth opponent) makes the cut. The outlet's chosen No. 64 is 6-foot-3, 290-pound Princeton offensive lineman Barrett Eddlemon.

Here's the list of Ivy Leaguers and Big Green opponents recognized to date:

96: Yale DT Jaylin Tate
86: Cornell TE Ryder Kurtz
85: Columbia WR Titus Evans
79: Lehigh OL Aidan Palmer
77: Harvard OL Spencer Doan
75: Penn OL Luke Sacchetti
71: Harvard OL Thomas O'Brien
64: Princeton OL Barrett Eddlemon

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EXTRA POINT
We had nine acres of land at our house on the shoulder of Moose Mountain. We have only six acres here, but there's a big difference. Our property at the last house was mostly wooded. Here on our Vermont hillside, our property is mostly open. I haven't measured it out, but I'd guestimate we have about two acres of lawn here, and four acres of field.

For the first half dozen years here I dutifully mowed all six acres with my small electric tractor. Given that the field part is uneven – filled with ruts and potholes that were no fun to hit with a tractor that has almost no suspension – it took hours to cut over a couple of days. When I finished it looked almost like a lawn, at least from a distance, but I finally decided the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

This year I am still mowing the two-acre lawn, but I called up a local with a real tractor to cut the field down. He did the first of two cuts earlier this week, and will do the second in late August. Our field doesn't look like a golf course anymore, but looks instead like what it was before this house was built. A field.