2012 PREV I EW THE OFFENSE
THE DEFENSE
QUARTERBACKS
DEFENSIVE ENDS
Player
Cl. ’11 GP/CAR
Player
Cl. ’11 GP/CAR
Casey Cochran Blaise Driscoll Alexander Leu Scott McCummings Johnny McEntee Michael Nebrich Chandler Whitmer
Fr. -/Sr. 0/0 So. -/RSo. 12/12 RSr. 12/13 So. 8/8 RSo. -/-
Kenton Adeyemi Ted Jennings Jesse Joseph Jonathan Louis Trevardo Williams
RFr. 0/0 RSr. 10/22 Sr. 9/34 RSo. 0/0 Sr. 12/38
WIDE RECEIVERS
Punter Cole Wagner
Kicker Chad Christen
SPECIAL TEAMS
The graduation of Dave Teggart, the school’s all-time leader in points, extra points and field goals, leaves a huge gap to fill. Redshirt junior Chad Christen, who has handled kickoffs the past two years, will be the leader for that job. True freshman Bobby Puyol will also get a look. The Huskies are solid at punter with redshirt junior Cole Wagner, a Second Team All-BIG EAST pick. Wagner enters the 2012 season as the UConn career leader in punting average at 41.2 yards and is ninth in number of punts with 159 and seventh in yardage at 6,548. Wagner owns two of the top four single-season punting averages in school history. Christen will be the backup there. Junior Adam Mueller returns as the deep snapper and will be backed up by redshirt freshman Dominick Manco. There is experience in the return areas as senior Nick Williams will look to once again handle both kickoff and punt returns. Williams is second in career kickoff return yardage at UConn with 1,556 and third in number of KO returns with 55. He is also just one of three Huskies to ever have two career KO returns for a TD. Also on kickoff returns will be junior Taylor Mack and redshirt freshman Wilbert Lee. Mack and sophomore Deshon Foxx will be involved in the punt return game.
Kamal Abrams Denzel Allen Robert Cherry Geremy Davis Matthew Delmonte Brendan Donegan Brandon Fowler Deshon Foxx Frank Guardi Tebucky Jones Michael Matson Shakim Phillips Michael Smith Sujay Trivedi Nick Williams
So. 8/8 Sr. 0/0 Jr. 0/0 RSo. 12/12 Sr. -/RFr. 0/0 Jr. 0/0 So. 7/7 Jr. 0/0 RSo. 8/8 So. -/RSo. 0/0 Sr. 0/36 Jr. -/Sr. 12/30
TAILBACKS Max DeLorenzo Martin Hyppolite Lyle McCombs D.J. Shoemate Joseph Williams
RFr. 0/0 RJr. 0/13 RSo. 12/12 RSr. 2/15 Fr. -/-
FULLBACKS Reuben Frank Christopher Matteis Michael Osiecki Martin Tartaglino
RSo. 12/12 RFr. 0/0 RSo. 10/10 Sr. -/-
TIGHT ENDS John Delahunt Ryan Griffin Sean McQuillan Spencer Parker
RSr. RSr. RFr. Sr.
8/32 12/36 0/0 -/-
Fr. RSo. RSo.
-/0/0 0/0
CENTERS Kyle Bockeloh Alex Mateas Bryan Paull
OFFENSIVE GUARDS Tyler Bullock Gus Cruz Joseph Danielson Drew Ghio Steve Greene
RJr. 10/11 RSo. 8/8 RSo. 0/0 Fr. -/RJr. 12/13
OFFENSIVE TACKLES Jimmy Bennett Stephen Brown Kevin Friend Dalton Gifford Xavier Hemingway Adam Masters Paul Nwokeji
RSr. RJr. RJr. RFr. RFr. RSr. RFr.
4/8 2/2 12/18 0/0 0/0 12/30 0/0
DEFENSIVE TACKLES Julian Campenni B.J. McBryde Angelo Pruitt Shamar Stephen Tim Willman Ryan Wirth
RFr. 0/0 RSo. 3/3 RSo. 1/1 RJr. 12/24 RJr. 2/3 RSr. 9/18
LINEBACKERS Jefferson Ashiru Ryan Donohue Jory Johnson Sio Moore Yawin Smallwood Brandon Steg Marquise Vann
RFr. Sr. RSr. RSr. RSo. RSo. RFr.
1/1 0/0 33/14 12/29 12/12 12/12 0/0
Sr. RFr. RSr. Jr. RFr. RSr.
-/0/0 12/38 8/21 0/0 8/34
CORNERBACKS Denzell Allen Tyree Clark Dwayne Gratz Taylor Mack David Stevenson Blidi Wreh-Wilson
SAFETIES Andrew Adams Ty-Meer Brown Jeremy Claflin Byron Jones Alex Kantor David Kenney Wilbert Lee Gilbert Stlouis
RFr. 0/0 RSo. 12/12 RFr. 0/0 RSo. 12/12 Jr. 4/4 RJr. 11/16 RFr. 0/0 Jr. 7/7
SPECIAL TEAM RETURNEES PLACE KICKERS Chad Christen (K/P) RJr. David Goodrich RFr.
12/25 0/0
PUNTERS Cole Wagner
RJr.
12/25
RFr. Jr.
0/0 10/10
LONG SNAPPERS Dominick Manco Adam Mueller
Chart contains all returning players plus 2012 mid-year enrollees
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