UMass Football Recruiting 2027--Zyon Preston

 

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Zyon Preston, a 6-2 220 pound Edge from Snellville, GA has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video highlights. 

MaxPreps has stats. 

Preston also has offers from Cornell and Harvard. He could play FBS-level football and get an excellent education in Amherst. 

UMass Football Recruiting 2027--Julius LaRosa III

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 Julius LaRosa III, a 6-2 260 pound DL from Jacksonville, FL has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

This site has video highlights. 

MaxPreps has stats. 

This article covers his offer from UCLA. 

LaRosa has 22 offers pretty evenly split between Power Four schools and Group-of-Five. UCLA, Tennessee, Georgia Tech and Kansas are some of his Power Four offers. Appalachian State, Liberty, Western Kentucky and JMU are representative of Group-of-Five. UMass is his only offer from the MAC. He could get an excellent education and a chance to start early in Amherst. 

UMass 2026 Transfer Recruiting --Nick Dalessandro

 

Nick Dalessandro, a 6-4 290 pound OG/OT portal transfer from Colgate has a UMass offer.

Dalessamndro's Red Raiders bio here. 

He had 15 career starts and 32 games played for Colgate. Gave up zero sacks on 457 passing plays in 2025. The UMass offensive line is one unit that could use some additional players from the transfer portal.  Dalessandro could be an instant starter and potentially play in 11 FBS games (counting the extra game against Hawaii).

UMass Football Recruiting 2027--William Grinage

 UMass has offered to William Grinage, a 6-3 240 pound DE from Orlando, FL.

Hudl.com has video highlights. 

MaxPreps has Stats. 14 SACKs and 18 TFL in eleven games..

Grinage has offers from Oregon State and Marshal. He could be part of the Minutemen's defensive renaissance in Amherst.

UMass Football Recruiting 2027--Rowan Martin

 

The Minuteman Command has a post on 2027 Safety/Athlete Rowan Martin.

Hudl.com has video Highlights. 

This article from December of 2024 features Martin. 

Martin has offers from most of the Ivies. He has FBS offers from Army, Navy and UMass. He could play FBS-level football and get an Ivy-equivalent education in Amherst. 

UMass Football News--February 27th, 2026

 

The UMass Spring game will be on April 25th. Last year's game started at Noon.

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And a couple of articles have further adventures in AI-written sports journalism.

College Football News has MAC Conference Spring Football rankings.  If you don't recognized the listed UMass transfer-in and transfer-outs scroll down to Toledo.

• a human sports writer would probably chosen Pop Watson or Joseph Griffin Jr as UMass' top incoming transfer 
• a human sports writer probably would not have ranked Sacramento State as #7 in the league..

Hustle Belt has getting acquainted with Sacramento State Football. 

• See the section on Sacramento State's stadium and attendance. The AI doesn't know UMass is a member of the MAC

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UMass Football Recruiting 2027--Jay Rawls

 

Jay Rawls, a 6-6 195 pound WR from Goodyear, AZ has a UMass offer.

Hudl.com has video highlights 

Rawls has a pro-sized frame and UMass appears to be his first FBS offer. He could hone his talent and get an excellent education with the Minutemen in Amherst.