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COPIAH LINCOLN WOLVES
HOPE TO BE ON THE FIELD MORE IN 2021
HEAD COACH: Glenn Davis entering 18th season (91-65) WOLVES COACHING STAFF: Williams Jones, Calvin Green, Maurice Williams, Micah Davis, Jason Guthrie, Robert McFarland
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opiah-Lincoln head football coach Glenn Davis and his staff are preparing for a full slate of MACCC football in 2021 after only playing three games last season. The Wolves finished 2-1, but ongoing issues due to COVID-19 forced the school to cancel the rest of what was supposed to be a six-game schedule. The usual cycle for Co-Lin and their community college brethren is to keep their players on campus working out and acquiring credits during summer school. After the season in the fall, they’ll then graduate the bulk of their sophomores and have those players signing with new schools in order to enroll in the spring at a four-year program. The shortened 2020 season gave those sophomores less opportunities to show what they were capable of on the field. It was frustrating for Davis to see his guys stuck in limbo as the NCAA allowing players to transfer without
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GRIDIRON 2021
2-1 IN 2020 W — @ Southwest MS 41-3 W — vs. Pearl River 27-24 L — vs. East Central 13-10 OT
losing a year of eligibility caused more uncertainty in the recruiting world. “I just hated it for our kids,” said Davis. “They put in the work and deserve to showcase that on the field, but we couldn’t really do that last year. We’ve got several that are fully vaccinated and we’re hoping that this year will be one with a full season of games.” One silver lining is that the sophomores from last season could return to Wesson and wouldn’t lose a year of eligibility. Several difference makers for CLCC made the choice to do just that including offensive lineman Jalen Armstrong, quarterback Paul Hargrave, wideout Erick Rodgers, linebacker Jalen Campbell, kicker/punter Bryce Lofton and defensive lineman Lamarcus Faulkner. Hargrave redshirted his first season in Wesson before becoming the starting QB last season. A product of Natchez High, he’s a threat to both run and pass the ball. Germantown High prod-
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uct Colton Gardner will also compete for playing time at quarterback as a freshman. Lining up in the backfield will be another valuable third year returnee, running back Drexlan Allen. The 5-foot-9 Allen is a shifty runner out of Hattiesburg High who’s run for a combined 500 yards thus far in his career. Armstrong is an athletic, physical lineman out of Calhoun City who had offers and could have left Wesson but chose to return in hopes of improving the number and quality of his future opportunities. In the spring while discussing signing day, Davis said that he’d not hold back any sophomores who wanted to move on. “We had a defensive player that was telling us he was going to come back, and he would have been a really good third year sophomore,” said Davis at the time. “He got an offer from a Division I program though, and our coaches let him know that the school recruiting Delta State Jordan Davis Mississippi State Sebastien Dolcine Florida Atlantic Demarcus Gordon Louisiana Tech Malik Heath
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