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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5140748, member: 289"] And here is a list of the players on this year’s roster but not on last year’s roster (star ratings from 247). (More on them in the sections on each unit of the team): [B]Marcellus Barnes Jr.[/B] is a 3-star DB from Chattanooga. [B]Adam Boeheim[/B] is an unrated OL from downstate, apparently not related to our famous basketball coach. [B]Caden Brown[/B] is a 3-star ‘edge’ from Brooklyn [B]Jayden Brown[/B] is a 3-star LB from New Jersey [B]Travis Brown-Miller[/B] is an unrated OL from New Jersey [B]Clark Calloway[/B] – the only thing I’ve been able to find out about him is that he’s DL from Georgia [B]Duce Chestnut’s[/B] journey continues. Dino Babers first recruited him in 2021 and he was rated 4 stars by Rivals. We were told he was the highest rated recruit we’d had in at least a decade. 247 says he was a 3-star. He played here for two years, then hit the portal to see what he could do at a real national power like LSU. He appeared in 4 games, none after September and returned to SU. Maybe he is a 3-star. He’ll have two years left. [B]Fadil Diggs[/B] Kyle McCord’s transfer here was the big news for the offense. Fadil Digg’s transfer from Texas A&M was the big news for the defense. He came with Coach Robinson from Texas A&M. He was a 4 star ‘edge’ as a high school recruit and as a transfer. He’ll be a senior. [B]Fatim Diggs[/B] is Fadil’s brother. He’s a 3-star LB from New Jersey. [B]KingJoseph Edwards[/B] is another 4-star edge from Georgia. Yes, ‘KingJoseph‘ is one word. [B]Calvin Fowler[/B] is a walk-on DB transfer from Duquesne, who plays football at the FCS level. He’ll have three years left. [B]Willie Goodacre [/B]is a 3-star OL from Texas. [B]Devin Grant[/B] is a three-star transfer DB from Buffalo. He’ll have two years left. [B]Patrick Grusser[/B] is a PWO QB from New Jersey. [B]Ta'Ron Haile[/B] is a 3 star WR from New Jersey. [B]Jaden Hart [/B]is a 3-star RB from Michigan. [B]Isaiah Hastings [/B]is a 3-star DL from Florida who first went to Alabama, played in 1 game in two years, announced he was transferring to Missouri but we flipped him. He has three years left. [B]Zeed Haynes[/B] is a WR out of Pennsylvania. He went to Georgia as a four star, appeared in four games and made one catch, then transferred here as a 3-star. He’s the same player. He’ll have four more years to sort it out. [B]James Heard [/B]is a 3-star LB from New Jersey. He went to West Virginia, played in three games and transferred here. He has four more years. [B]Jaylan Hornsby[/B] is a 3-star WR from New Jersey. Coach Robinson flipped him from Texas A&M. [B]Codie Hornsby[/B], (no apparent relation), is a 3-star OL from Texas who went to Grambling before transferring here. He’ll have two years. [B]Malachi James[/B] is…guess what? A 3-star TB from New Jersey. [B]Nakei Johnson[/B] is an unrated DB from downstate. [B]Tim Johnson[/B] is a grad transfer linebacker who played for two DII schools in Iowa and came here to pursue a Master’s Degree in Advertising. I hope he gets it. [B]Michael Johnson Jr.[/B] is the son of our co-offensive coordinator. He was a 3-star QB out of Oregon who originally enrolled in Penn State in January 1919, transferred to Florida Atlantic after the 2020 season and now here for his last two college seasons. [B]Jackson Kennedy[/B] is a kicker who transferred in from Cornell. He’ll have two more years. [B]Davien Kerr[/B] is an unrated ‘athlete’ from Connecticut. [B]Jahide Lesaine Jr.[/B] is a 3-star LB from New Jersey. We flipped him from Kent State. [B]Clarence Lewis[/B] is a 3-star DB from New Jersey who went to Notre Dame in 2020 and is here as a grad transfer. [B]Braheem Long Jr.[/B] is a 3-star DB from New Jersey, Camden, in fact. That’s where Coaches Brown and Robinson come from. [B]Kyle McCord[/B] is the big name among the new players. Having the starting QB for Ohio State decide he’d rather be the starting QB for Syracuse made national headlines. He was a 4-star from Philadelphia, (but born in New Jersey), and a 4-star transfer. [B]Ibn McDaniels [/B]is another 3-star DB from New Jersey. [B]Jackson Meeks[/B] is a 3-star WR from Alabama who played for Georgia the last three rather fun years. [B]Xavier Miles [/B]is a 3-star DL from New Jersey. [B]AJ Miller[/B] is an unrated QB from downstate. [B]Joshua Miller[/B] is a 3-star OL from Virginia who went to Georgia for a year, then followed Coach Brown to SU. [B]Stan Modo[/B] is a walk-on DL from Texas. [B]Jordan Montanez[/B] is a PWO RB from Texas. [B]Will Nixon[/B] is the son of our other Co-offensive coordinator, Jeff Nixon. I’m glad Will and Michael Johnson Jr. don’t’ play the same position. Will was a 3 star RB from Texas first went to Nebraska, then to Washington, where he played in the national championship and now on to join his father at Syracuse. He’ll have two years here. [B]Michael Nwokocha [/B]is a 3 star DL from Texas. [B]Nate Prater[/B] is an unrated walk-on DB from Tennessee. [B]Noah Rosahac[/B] is a 3-star OL from Pennsylvania. [B]Emanuel Ross[/B] is a 3-star WR from New Jersey per 247, although he was a 4-star when we recruited him. [B]Justus Ross-Simmons i[/B]s a 3-star WR originally from Rochester whose family went to LA and who wound up at Colorado State for two years. [B]Vito Shevchenko[/B] is a 3-star OL from Vancouver. [B]Mark Short[/B] is an unrated walk-on LB from downstate. [B]Garvin St. John[/B] is an unrated walk-on LB from Illinois. [B]Ja'Meer Thomas[/B] is a 3-star ‘athlete’ from Bennet HS in Buffalo, a former teammate of Rashad Perry, (see below under “Defensive Lineman”). [B]Jamie Tremble[/B] is a 4-star tight end from Georgia but he’s not originally a Fran Brown recruit. He was to be the star of Dino Baber’s recruiting class and Coach Brown kept him on board. [B]Savion Washington[/B] is a 3-star OL from Ohio who first went to Kent State and transferred to SU. He’ll have two years here. [B]Marcus Washington Jr.[/B] is a cornerback from Georgia who went to Georgia, then to Louisville, then here to reunite with Fran Brown. He was a 4-star coming out of HS but is rated as a 3 star transfer. [B]Elijah Washington-Baker [/B]is a 3-star tight end from Virginia. [B]Maraad Watson [/B]is a 3-star DL from New Jersey. [B]Da'Metrius Weatherspoon[/B] is a DL from Pennsylvania who had no rating coming out of high school but got 3 stars as a transfer from FCS Howard U. [B]Jakhari Williams [/B]is a 3-star QB from Georgia. [B]Yasin Willis[/B] is a 3-star RB from New Jersey. [B]Dion Wilson Jr.[/B] was a 3-Star DL coming out of high school who “Spent three seasons at Arizona, then transferred to New Mexico State for one year before joining Syracuse in January.” He’s also ranked 3-star as a transfer. [B]Grant Winter[/B] is an unranked PWO DL from Maine. [B]Jacob Zuhr [/B]is a long-snapper from Florida. That’s 53 guys out and 60 guys in. I count 37 three stars and 6 guys who are or have been rated at 4 stars along with 15 walk-ons and 2 kicking game guys. That doesn’t seem like a sea-change. But some of these guys look pretty good and their ‘measurables’, (size, strength and speed), are impressive. And measurables are a big thing to Fran Brown, who has said “big guys tend to dominate little guys and fast guys run by slow guys”. I’ll go over those things in the unit descriptions below. I’ll end this section with an image that stands out. It’s of a guy who won’t even be on this team yet, a guy named Byron Washington who is part of the 2025 class, for which Brown already has 28 commits, (he’s already working on the 2026 class). Here is his picture: [URL unfurl="true"]https://syracusefan.com/threads/ol-byron-washington-tx-committed-to-syracuse-3-23-24.180097/page-3#post-5022336[/URL] That’s what Coach Fran Brown has in mind for Syracuse! 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