2024 Wyoming Cowboys

[Bucky]

Good looking squad here! Looks like 14 again! @Heralded_Defender nailed this write up last year where the pokes started 14 as well. Wyoming has started 15, 17, 14, 16, 15, 13, 14, 12, 11, 13, 11, 15, 9, 10, 8, 8, 10 and 11 whites since 2005.

Interested to see what Svoboda does as a first year starter. Big Bodied QB. Oh yeah, Craig Bohl retired and now the DC for the past 4 years, Jay Sawvel is taking over. Bohl’s son will run DC.

The TE “JMG” and RG Jack Walsh were pre season 1st team all selections.

Bertagnole and Siders have both had underrated but productive careers. Ekeler is also a stud who has been talked about in ‘24 DB thread. Icing on the cake is Wrook Brown at NB.

Once again a ton of depth!



OFFENSE

QB Evan Svoboda Jr. 6’5 245

FB Caleb Driscoll RSr. 6’2 240

TE John Michael Gyllenborg RJr. 6’5 245

WR Will Pellisier RSr. 6’3 210

LT Caden Barnett RJr. 6’5 310

LG Wes King RSo. 300

RG Jack Walsh RJr. 6’3 310

RT Jake Davies RFr. 6’7 285

DEFENSE

DE Braden Siders RSr. 6’3 245

NT Ben Florentine RJr. 6’1 275

DT Jordan Bertagnole RSr. 6’4 290

LB Connor Shay RSr. 6’2 232

FS Wyatt Ekeler RSr. 5’11 200

NB Wrook Brown RJr. 5’11 185

Backups: OL Alex Conn, Luke Sandy, Dante Gavito, JJ Uphold, Nathan Geiger, TE Nick Miles, FB Kimball Madsen, QB Jayden Clemons, QB Kaden Anderson, RB Sam Scott, DE Tyce Westland, LB Cole DeMarzo, LB Evan Eller, S Koa McIntyre, S Andrew Johnson, CB Issac Sell.

 

[TwentyTwo]

Very nice write up Bucky! Wyoming is a team i have been liking more n more lately!
To a school that's produced Josh Allen ; Logan Wilson; Chad Muma & Andrew Wingard

Will have to add NB (Cornerback?) Wrook Brown in the DB Thread! Makes for a potent tandem in the Secondary with Ekeler!

I hope RB Sam Scott can get some more carries! He's shown flashes when given the limited opportunity @ 6'- 2" 230! The TD run last season vs. Texas Tech!

 

[Booth]

Wyatt Ekeler is the half-brother of NFL RB Austin Ekeler, the same Mother, but a different Father. Wyatt is White.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-who-austin-ekeler-s-brother-wyett-ekeler-all-chargers-rb-s-sibling

 

[Don Wassall]

Wyatt Ekeler is the half-brother of NFL RB Austin Ekeler, the same Mother, but a different Father. Wyatt is White.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-who-austin-ekeler-s-brother-wyett-ekeler-all-chargers-rb-s-sibling

Quote from that article: "Like his brother, Wyett was a running back when he first started playing football at Windsor High, finishing as a senior with 1,435 yards and 22 scores. The junior Ekeler understood that he would probably be a defensive back at the university level, despite his high school running back exploits. The coaches at the University of Wyoming had informed him as much, and he embraced the task at hand. It's an uphill battle to go from virtually never playing defense to playing it at the collegiate level, but Wyett's drive to play football professionally has allowed him to pick up the role from the bottom up."

Maybe he shouldn't have been so quick to "understand" that he wouldn't be allowed to play his best position, the one his half-brother successfully played in the NFL despite starting as a free agent. Maybe he shouldn't have "embraced the task at hand" and instead questioned it.

Did Wyett just internalize that he was seen as an inferior runner because of his race, lacking that relatively small amount of melanin that made his half-brother successful but which was seen as a fatal flaw in him as far as being a running back in college? Or did he never really think about it all, just accept it and become determined to turn himself into an "overachiever" at defensive back? And this is at Wyoming, one of the "White friendliest" programs in the country.

 

[Bucky]

Racial slotting at it finest. I wonder if his mulatto brother realizes how fortunate he is to be a RB?! lol. Even with 14 starters this is going on..

 

[Leonardfan]

Nice write-up! I hope Sam Scott gets some more carries this year.

 

[Bucky]

Wyoming is in a good caste match up late night 10:30pm et against Arizona State. Caste matchup even with ASU starting Skattebo at RB!

 

[Bucky]

Rough 1st season for Wyoming Head Coach Jay Sawvel. 1-7. I appreciate his honesty though! To paraphrase:

“Right now I’m a HorseSh*t Head Coach, and we’ve had horsesh*t officiating”

LOL

MWC scolds Wyoming coach for criticizing officials

The Mountain West reprimanded Wyoming coach Jay Sawvel for his public criticism of the officials following the Cowboys' loss to Utah State on Saturday.

www.espn.com