UMass Football News--March 5th, 2025

 

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The August 31st 2024 two-deep chart for Eastern Michigan shows two players at TE

Dominick Mazotti 

Owen Anderson . Anderson appeared in all 12 games and went 2-13 1 TD. 

No other TE on the roster had a catch.

In the transfer portal UMass added:

Reese Adkins. Transfer from UCF. Did not have a catch in 2024.

Max Dowling. Transferred from UT-Martin. Went 23-278 5 TD's for the FCS Sky Hawks.

On the 2024-25 roster are:

Noah Staples . A JUCO transfer. No 2024 stats

Magnus Von Saldern. No 2024 stats

John Condrakes. A true freshman

The TE tends to be a big part of modern offenses. Mazotti had 18-183 and 1 TD in 2024 and was probably underused. 

Right now Dowling and Anderson would seem to be the 1-2 at TE. The Minutemen might be looking for an additional transfer.

UMass Football News--March 4th, 2025

 Bear with me on this. Blogger does not do columns or grids.

The starting OL for UMass on August 31st 2024 was:

RT Luke Painton  RG Ethan Mottinger C Josh Atwood LG Wyatt Terlaak LT Brayden Rhome

2nd string:

RT Jaxon King RG Benjamin Roy C Peyton Miller LG Mao Glynn LT Ryan Mosesso

In the transfer portal UMass added two first-team All Ivy OL's.

 Mike Entwistle from Harvard and Kyle Brown from Dartmouth. As Grad transfers and All-Ivy I would think they would be plug-ins at RG and LG. The Minutemen Command reviews Kyle Brown and Mike Entwistle.

The Minutemen also added Sullivan Weidman from West Virginia.  He appeared in all 13 games for the Mountaineers in 2024 in special teams and some at guard.

If all the above are healthy in 2025 UMass seems to fairly well set along the offensive line. They currently have 13 O-linemen on the roster (not counting the transfers). Three of the thirteen are true freshmen.

This seems a solid group to enter the MAC with. In our previous stint in the conference UMass had only one All-Mack offensive lineman (Anthony Dima 2013 Third Team) in four years. The O-line leads the way and hopefully this group will lead us to some victories in 2025.

UMass Football Recruiting 2026--David Williams

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 David Williams, a 6-0 180 pound DB from Warren, MI has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video.

MaxPreps has stats. 

Williams has offers from Colorado State, Bowling Green, Miami (Ohio) and Kent State. He could find a home in the new-look Minutemen defense in Amherst.

UMass Football Recruiting 2026--Hunter Stepanich

 

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Hunter Stepanich, a 6-7 230 pound TE/DE from Elmhurst, IL has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video.

Also plays hoops. 

Stepanich has eleven offers including Western Michigan, Toledo, Northern Illinois and Miami (Ohio) from the MAC. Princeton and Dartmouth have offered from the Ivies. He could get a high quality East Coast education and play FBS football by joining the Minutemen in Amherst.