Friday, May 19, 2023

Football Announces Nine New Players

 Most of which had already been discovered on Twitter.  There were two new names and one "new" name.

The "new" name is Davon Ferguson, who is returning to BG.  This is tremendous news.  Ferguson is a transfer from Kansas who has been star-crossed by injuries, playing 8 games his first year and 2 last year.  Notwithstanding that, he has been one of our best players on defense through that time, and we definitely have a spot for him.  He had transferred to Georgia Southern, that didn't work out for some reason and he's back in BG.

Chris Akporoghene is an OL transferring from Tulsa.  Before that, he was at Tennessee for 3 years. He's 6'3" and 310, and played 10 games in one year at Tulsa and 7 in 3 years at Tennessee.  Most of his snaps have been on kick protection.  He played only 14 offensive snaps last year, in a game against Jacksonville State.  He was a three-star recruit who played at IMG his senior year.  He had offers in HS from almost two dozen P5 schools and 33 in total.  If he can help, we need it, having lost our two best lineman from last year.

Evan Branch-Haynes, he is a DL who is 6'2" and 300. He played for two years at Arizona and has three years left to play.  He played 4 games for the Wildcats.  He was all-state in HS as a sophomore, all-conference as a junior and then lost a season to COVID. He had offers from Fresno, Montana State and Stetson, in addition to Arizona.

Welcome or Welcome Back, Davon, Chris and Evan.



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