UMass Football Recruiting 2028--Deondre Hill

 Deondre Hill, a 6-3 220 pound LB from Bloomfield Hills, MI has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video highlights. 

MaxPreps has some stats (offense only) 

Hill has 18 offers including multiple Power Four schools. Wisconsin, Indiana and Kansas are among those offered. From the MAC,  UMass, Bowling Green and Central Michigan have offered. UConn has recently joined the group interested in Hill. He could get an excellent East Coast education and join the resurgent UMass defense with the Minutemen. 

UMass Football Recruiting 2027--Sa'Nir Brooks

 

Sa''Nir Brooks a 5-11 195 pound RB/Athlete from Baltimore, MD has a UMass offer.

247sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video highlights. 

Recently de-committed from Syracuse. 

Brooks has 16 offers including multiple Power Four schools. Rutgers and Syracuse have offered from the Northeast. Toledo, Miami (Ohio) and Akron have offered from the MAC. UConn also has offered. Brooks could have a chance for early playing time with the Minutemen in Amherst. 

UMass Football News--July 11th, 2026

 Yahoo Sports has a post on what happens the year after you go 0-12.

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 Most of the pundits are picking Western Michigan to win the MAC. As above, the ESPN FPI thinks Toledo.

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SBN Nation previews the Ball State Cardinals. UMass plays Ball State at home on Nov 4th. 

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EA Sports does a U-turn on College Football 27. 

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Athlon Sports predicts the teams in all of the 2026-27 college football Bowls. UMass is not one of the MAC teams.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2027--Abdul Turay

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 Abdul Turay, a 5-11 180 pound RB from Jersey City, NJ has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video highlights. 

Turay has Power Four offers from BC, Pitt and Syracuse. Temple, Buffalo, Northern Illinois and UConn have offered from UMass' peer group. He could find a home and early playing time in Amherst with the Minutemen. 

UMass Football News--July 9th, 2026

 Rutgers fan site "On the Banks" previews the Scarlet Knights opener against UMass.

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Another web-based college football site "Walk-On Redshirts" previews the MAC conference. 

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Central Michigan has a post on the MAC conference's July 22nd Media Day at Ford Field. 

ESPN+ will live cover the event 11:00 am to 1:30 pm. 

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Thanks to the blog reader who sent me the heads-up about Jeremiah Telander, who is a senior LB for Tennessee. 

His father Steve Telander was a four-year letter winner for  UMass 1974,1975, 1978, 1979. He was All-Yankee Conference in 1975.

Steve Telander also coached at UMass 1981-85.

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UMass Football News--July 8th, 2026

 

UMass' own Christian McCullum gets interviewed by a Rutgers video podcast.

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The 247Sports Rutgers fan site "Scarlet Nation" has a preview of the Rutgers-UMass season opener.

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Rutgers flips a four-star RB from Penn State to the Scarlet Knights.

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ESPN's Bill Connelly has a capsule comment on each conference including the MAC and a link to a detailed article on each FBS conference.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2027--Charles Turgeon

 

Charles Turgeon a 6-7 255 pound TE from Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, QC, Canada has announced on his Instagram account he's committed to UMass.

I could not find any video or recruiting capsules on the interweb  for Turgeon. He has prototype FBS TE size and should be a great addition to the UMass offense.