Three Dartmouth players are included on the NFL Draft Diamonds 2026-2027 Small School Prospect Watch List. The Big Green players (LINK):
QB Grayson Saunier
S Harrison Keith
K Owen Zalc
Other Ivy Leaguers named:
Brown
DE/LB Ike Odimegwu
QB James Murphy
FS Miles Brophy
Columbia
TE Braden Dougherty
WR Titus Evans
Cornell
CB Braylon Howard
OT Dylan Page
DB Johnny Williamson
TE Ryder Kurtz
WR Samuel Musungu
Harvard
FS Jack Donahoe
TE Seamus Gilmartin
LB Sean Line
OT Spencer Doan
OG Thomas O'Brien
RB/KR Xaviah Bascon
Penn
CB Devin Malloy
CB/RS Jayden Drayton
OG Luke Sacchetti
OLB Raashed Hall
LS Zach Darche
Princeton
OG Barrett Eddlemon
P Brady Clark
LB Chase Christopher
CB Evan Haynie
OG Justin Selbert
OT Oyintare Porbeni
LB Torian Roberts
Yale
FS Abu Kamara
CB Brandon Webster
DT Jaylin Tate
LB Phoenix Grant
OG Quinton Lewis
DE Zairion Jackson-Bass
Players from Dartmouth's nonconference schedule mentioned:
Lehigh
DB DJ Brown
DB Jackson Dowd
DT Jadin Nelson
RB Luke Yoder
S Nick PeltekianMerrimack
DT Bryce RicksMonmouth
DT Brendan Bigos
DT Bryce Rooks
WR Gavin Nelson
P Luke Schabel
CB Zachary Ricci
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Named to the Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America Team (LINK)
First team
TE Ryder Kurtz, Cornell
DB Abu Kamara, Yale
RB Luke Yoder, Lehigh
Second Team
DB – Damien Henderson, Harvard
OL Aidan Palmer, Lehigh
DB – Jaeden Jones, Monmouth
Third Team
WR – Samuel Musungu, Cornell
TE – Seamus Gilmartin, Harvard
OL – Thomas O’Brien, Harvard
DL – Ike Odimegwu, Brown
LB – Sean Line, Harvard
DB – Nick Peltekian, Lehigh#
This fall Dartmouth will face two players on the preseason watchlist for the Walter Payton Award, presented to the national offensive player of the year in FCS college football. Selected were (LINK):
• Yale quarterback Dante Reno
• Lehigh running back Luke Yoder
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Sorting through some old photos the other day I came across one that appeared on BGA years ago but disappeared due to user error. (Mine ;-)
It was posted so far back that I thought it worth sharing again. It's a shot of telegram now buried deep in the files at Dartmouth:
For Ivy League newbies who may not know the back story, here's what BGA culled from the SI Vault the first time this was posted:
(W)hen Dartmouth was awarded the Lambert Trophy as the best team in the East, Penn State coach Joe Paterno felt obliged to register a tongue-in-cheek protest. Paterno suggested-through the press-that Dartmouth and Penn State play each other to determine which was really the top Eastern team. Responded Blackman, "Of course, Coach Paterno knows that under Ivy League rules we're not allowed to play in a postseason game, but if we were allowed to play a postseason contest, I would prefer to play a team that had a better record," a dig at the Nittany Lions' 7-3.
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I've probably mentioned this before, but it's like fingernails on a chalkboard (remember those things?) when I see things like this in The Athletic:
Two points. First, you would never write about the Big Green's first game at Lehigh, "Dartmouth are opening the Ivy League season Saturday." The writer is trying too hard.
And second, if you want to sound like one of the cool kids and write, "England are (unmistakably) through," in your headline, two sentences into the story you have to write, "In essence: Are England in trouble?" Not, "In essence: Is England in trouble?" At least be consistent.
Fingernails. Chalkboard.
Another one from someone at The Athletic trying to be like the cool kids:
