UMass Football News--February 12th, 2019

NJ.com reports Rutgers gets a preseason 2019 ranking of #108. The Scarlet Knights' #59 recruiting ranking is low for a Power Five team, but it's a ranking UMass could only dream about. Rutgers snagged 19 three-star recruits.

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Former UMass player and coach Mike Dawson has been hired by the NY Giants as outside linebackers coach.

Husker247 has a post on Dawson leaving Nebraska.

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Calvin Ashley, the former five-star recruit Jack Driscoll beat out at Auburn, is leaving the Tigers.

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The Cheshire Herald has a post on two Cheshire Academy grads taking their football career to UMass.

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Watch Stadium.com has UMass 2019 opponents Northwestern and Army as preseason #25 and #24 respectively.

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Former UMass player Da'Sean Downey is a member of the the new AAF Arizona Hotshots team.

Downey was signed by the Ravens but was cut last spring.

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