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2025 CU Football Eligibility Chart

The Alabaster Yak

The Alabaster Yak

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POSITIONSENIORJUNIORSOPHOMORERS FRESHMANFRESHMAN
Quarterbacks (5)Kaidon SalterColton AllenRyan StaubJuju Lewis
Dominiq Ponder
Running Backs (5)Charlie Offerdahl*Dallan HaydenMicah Welch
Isaiah AugustaveBrandon Hood
Wide Receivers (8)Omarion MillerDrelon MillerKamron MikellAdrian Wilson
Terrell TimmonsQuanell Farrakhan Jr
Kaleb MathisQuentin Gibson
Tight Ends (6)Sav’ell SmallsBrady KopetzZayne DeSouza
Sam HartZach AtkinsCorbin Laisure
Offensive Linemen (14)Kareem Harden*Hank ZalinskasZechariah Owens*Yahya AttiaChauncey Gooden
Tyler Brown*Carter MillerJordan SeatonCarde Smith
Kahlil Benson*Cash ClevelandJay Gardenhire
Phillip Houston
Ben Reznik
Defensive Line (9)Anquin Barnes*Gavriel LightfootBrandon Davis-SwainChristian Hudson
Amari McNeill*Jahiem OatisChijoke NwankwoAlexander McPherson
Tawfiq Thomas*
Edge (7)Arden Walker*Nikhil Webb WalkerTaje McCoy*London Merritt
Keaten WadeQuency Wiggins*
Samuel Okunlola
Inside Linebackers (6)Jaylen WesterKyeran GarciaMantrez Walker
Jeremiah BrownTrenton Hood
Reginald Hughes
Cornerbacks (8)DJ McKinneyIsaiah Hardge (ATH)*Malakai Murphy
Braden KeithColton HoodBen Bouzi
Makari VickersKole Mathis
Safeties (5)Ben FinnesethCarter StoutmireRJ Johnson*Antonio Branch Jr
Savion Riley
Specialists (7)Jace Feeley* (K)Daniel Gerlach (P/PK)Alexander Stoyanovich (PK)Elliott Arnold (K)
Alejandro Mata (K)
Buck Buchanan (K/P)
Cam Dempsey (LS)
TOTALS (80)2221121015
 
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The CU website has updated the roster to remove guys who have entered the portal (except Woods since he announced yesterday). I went ahead and added guys who are current walk ons, that I've at least heard of, who I assume will remain on the roster and moved to scholarship with the new roster rules.

There are a handful of guys (5-8 in total) that I've never heard of so I left them off this chart for now, but this should give you a good idea of where the roster stands for 2025, including the incoming Freshmen and current incoming Transfers.
 
Is Smalls returning? I thought he was part of Senior Day??

We have some gaping holes at a lot of positions
 
slider said:
Is Smalls returning? I thought he was part of Senior Day??

We have some gaping holes at a lot of positions
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He's listed as a Junior on the CU roster so I just moved him to Senior. There are a handful of those kind of guys I wasn't sure about, Tyler Brown being another.

Edit: CU site says Smalls came to CU in 2023 with 3 to play 2 and RS in 2023, so he should have 1 year left.
 
JMBuffs said:
Hate to bring up a kicker, but I believe we are missing that freshman. . . good work Yak, thanks for this.
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Good call. He isn't listed on the 247 recruit site, so I forgot about him. There are a couple other Specialists that are listed on the roster that I doubt will be here much longer as well. Pallazzo and a few LS. I also expect Feely to probably transfer... Maybe.
 
So I'm trying to figure out the new system.
105 is a hard limit on roster size. All can be on scholarship, but I don't believe all need to be.
Used to be 85 scholarships total, no limit on roster size.

But you still have Title 9, so if you go to 105 scholarships, (20 additional) you have to fund 20 for women.

I don't see that all 105 have to be on scholarship either, as I've seen implied somewhere.
Does it make sense to fund more than 85 when we haven't even been at 85?
I can see a lot of schools doing that for sure, even though they are essentially filling out that roster with walkons or potentially G5 or lower level kids who chose a scholly at Greeley over paying their own way in FoCo for example.
 
buffaholic said:
So I'm trying to figure out the new system.
105 is a hard limit on roster size. All can be on scholarship, but I don't believe all need to be.
Used to be 85 scholarships total, no limit on roster size.

But you still have Title 9, so if you go to 105 scholarships, (20 additional) you have to fund 20 for women.

I don't see that all 105 have to be on scholarship either, as I've seen implied somewhere.
Does it make sense to fund more than 85 when we haven't even been at 85?
I can see a lot of schools doing that for sure, even though they are essentially filling out that roster with walkons or potentially G5 or lower level kids who chose a scholly at Greeley over paying their own way in FoCo for example.
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Good point and it does appear that teams can give scholarships to all 105 players, but do not have to. It was stated that there will be no non-scholarship players in this new format, but Google and other sites suggest that's incorrect. I thought the whole point was to eliminate schools just paying for PWOs who should really be on scholarship to skirt the 85 limit, which this kind of does, but technically they can still fund 85 scholarships and have the collective pay for 20 PWOs in the same way, although that feels like it defeats the purpose.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Good point and it does appear that teams can give scholarships to all 105 players, but do not have to. It was stated that there will be no non-scholarship players in this new format, but Google and other sites suggest that's incorrect. I thought the whole point was to eliminate schools just paying for PWOs who should really be on scholarship to skirt the 85 limit, which this kind of does, but technically they can still fund 85 scholarships and have the collective pay for 20 PWOs in the same way, although that feels like it defeats the purpose.
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It just puts a cap on the number of players you can do that with.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Good point and it does appear that teams can give scholarships to all 105 players, but do not have to. It was stated that there will be no non-scholarship players in this new format, but Google and other sites suggest that's incorrect. I thought the whole point was to eliminate schools just paying for PWOs who should really be on scholarship to skirt the 85 limit, which this kind of does, but technically they can still fund 85 scholarships and have the collective pay for 20 PWOs in the same way, although that feels like it defeats the purpose.
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Roster size is going to be an issue for teams to deal with.

y With the transfer portal there isn't as much necessity to have potential developmental players for depth. Still is an advantage if you can put together a decent scout team to practice against but is it worth putting all of those guys on scholarship if you know that they are never going to actually contribute for you in games and you have to deal with the Title IX numbers.

At some point the extra bodies become a management liability. You have to provide them with pads and uniforms, they need space and attention in the training room, in S&C, in team meals and activities. Also the more guys you have associated with the team the higher chance that one (or more) of them does something outside of team time that creates headaches for the staff be it a fight, driving drunk, fighting with a girlfriend, shoplifting, etc.

It's a little harder at the college level to manage a roster because you have some kids who aren't ready to go on the field taking up spots and you don't have an ability to sign a free agent to fill a hole created by injury or something else.

That said with the ability that Prime and staff have shown to address needs through the portal and their NFL inspired perform or be gone mentality I could easily see them being happy with a roster between 80-90 and not bothering to fill the other spots.

What it does do for them is eliminate the need to worry about managing those last few scholarships between the 80 - 85 to have something open in the event that a late transfer (or high school) recruit that they want comes available or a non-scholarship guy (like Cash this year) shows out and performs to a level earning a scholarship.
 
I did read a Husker article that stated this would have an impact, because they carry 150 guys and thus Rhule has to cut to get down to 115.
I wonder how many of them were receiving aid thru NIL etc?

So here's the way I'm reading it now, redundant to most who are following, but

  • Before this rule, and before NIL, each school could give up to 85 scholarships. No limit to roster size. See above.
  • With NIL, schools could basically have unlimited guys on the payroll, compensating them thru other means (NIL).
    • this effectively took away any limit on scholarships, as a school could pay 200 kids, but only 85 on scholarship
  • Reigning this in to a maximum of 105 total, only makes sense to me if each school must cover the cost of a scholarship for all of them.
    • NIL $ would be on top of that. Every roster slot is getting a full scholarship
    • No requirement to go to 105 - it adds 20 scholarships to football, and a matching 20 to womens sports (Title IX)
      • Schools with unlimited funding will choose to go to 105 in the AD (no downside)
      • Many schools may choose to stay well below it and put the money elsewhere such as
        • overpay your coach, who then is mandated to make a donation to NIL to pay the stars.
Bottom line, I would NOT pencil in a bunch of walk-ons as scholarship guys. There's a cost to that, they are no longer free tackling dummies.

I honestly don't know how this plays out over time. I would not expect the big money schools to consider less than 105 though.
 
buffaholic said:
I did read a Husker article that stated this would have an impact, because they carry 150 guys and thus Rhule has to cut to get down to 115.

  • Before this rule, and before NIL, each school could give up to 85 scholarships. No limit to roster size. See above.
  • Reigning this in to a maximum of 105 total, only makes sense to me if each school must cover the cost of a scholarship for all of them.
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Just a couple of clarifications.

105 is what everyone has to cut to. It is the same roster limits that exists now for pre-season before classes start. Currently you can only have 105 on the roster until classes start, then the limit goes away.

The new roster limits are structured the same across all sports. The rosters themselves are limited in total size but there is no requirement to have any of those rostered in scholarship. Also the headcount "full" scholarships no longer exist. Every sport will be able to offer full or partial scholarships to everyone on the roster. This should make it easier to comply with Title IX. Several sports will have fewer roster spots but be able to offer more scholarship money in total. I don't expect many D1 schools to offer all 105 spots full scholarships. That would be 20 more that they would then have to fund for women's sports immediately. None of this applies to revenue sharing, that is up to each school to determine yet.
 
Although TH and SS will be impossible to replace, in comparing this returning roster to the past 2, we are light years ahead. Agree with @The Alabaster Yak on needs. I see some WRs coming. IMO, they can never have enough Dline, Oline or Edge. I'm sure that we will get the Ss and CBs that we want. Those are probably in the works. We will find a few LBs too.

The size of the team will be dictated on the # of guys who can play/contribute on the varsity level. 80-100 is fine by me, but keep out the dead weight.
 
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