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Rice Football 2022 Roster Tracker

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The Rice football roster is ever-evolving. From the Transfer portal to high school signees, stay tuned here for updates.

Roster churn has become a part of college sports as we know and Rice football is not immune to the ebb and flow of players coming in and out. With the 2021 season in the books, this page will serve as a running tracker regarding the roster for the upcoming season as it currently stands. The last official roster is available here.

Looking for the latest recruiting changes such as offers and new commitments? Subscribers can access the recruiting tracker here. Not a subscriber yet? Join here. Feel free to bookmark it and refer back to it from time to time as players announce their intentions throughout the offseason.

All roster changes are up to date as of July 11, 2022.

Rice Football Preseason Preview: Check out the rest of the series here.

This piece is part of our 2022 Rice Football Season Preview. Get access to it, as well as all other preview posts such as positional breakdowns, depth chart and schedule analysis and more when you subscribe on Patreon today. New subscribers get our Conference USA Football Season Preview for FREE! 

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2025 Rice Football Season Preview: Safety

Posted: August 4, 2025

Next up in our 2025 Rice Football Season Preview: safety. Here’s our breakdown of the Owls’ plans for the group this season. A revamped Rice football defense will have plenty of new faces, but the safety room will be more familiar to Owls’ fans than most. A mix of longtime contributors and returning starters, supplemented […]

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Rice Football 2025 Fall Camp Notebook: Early Returns

Posted: August 2, 2025

The first practices of Rice Football fall camp are in the books. Here are a few things that stood out the most in the early work to this point. It’s always exciting to begin a new season and the first days of Rice football fall camp had a buzz about them, even with the sweltering […]

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Rice Football Recruiting: CB Jordan Mitchell commits to Owls

Posted: August 1, 2025

The month of August began with good news for the 2026 Rice Football recruiting class. Cornerback Jordan Mitchell has committed to the Owls. A productive summer, which saw the 2026 Rice Football recruiting class grow from a pair of spring commitments to more than a dozen future Owls, got even better this week. On the […]

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The Roost Podcast | Ep 207 – 2025 Rice Football Opponent Previews: Charlotte

Posted: July 31, 2025

The 2025 Rice Football season previews march on. This week, we’re wrapping the series up with some Charlotte talk at American Conference Media Days with Hunter Bailey. The final edition of our Rice Football opponent summer preview series concludes in Charlotte at American Conference Media Days where we sat down with Hunter Bailey of the […]

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2025 Rice Football Opponent Season Preview: South Florida

Posted: July 29, 2025

Injuries and a tough schedule spoiled a breakout season for South Florida last year. What can Rice Football expect from the Bulls in 2025? Head Coach: Alex GoleshRecord at School: 14-12 (2 Yr) | Career FBS Record 14-12 (2 Yr)Offensive Coordinator: Joel Gordon | Defensive Coordinator: Todd Orlando Golesh’s ties to a points-happy offense pioneered by […]

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Rice Football 2022 Season Preview: Wide Receivers

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As part of our 2022 Rice Football Preseason Preview series, this week we’ll dive into the wide receiver position and discuss the Owls’ plans for that group this year.

Year over year, it’s possible no Rice football position group will look more different than the wide receiver room.

Two starters from last year’s team, Jake Bailey and August Pitre, transferred this offseason. Bradley Rozner, after missing the last two seasons, and a host of transfers (plus a position switch from Luke McCaffrey) give this room options. Who steps up? Here’s our 2022 Wide Receiver Preview.

Rice Football Preseason Preview: Check out the rest of the series here.

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The Roost Podcast | Ep 116 – ’22 FAU Preview with Kevin Fielder

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It’s preseason preview time at The Roost Podcast. We continue this week with a look at FAU football with Kevin Fielder of Owls 247.

FAU Football has been through two tumultuous seasons under the direction of former Florida State head coach Willie Taggart. What is the true trajectory of the program today and how much of those elevated expectations are fair to be placed on the new staff? We discuss those questions with Kevin Fielder of Owls 247 on this week’s edition of The Roost Podcast.

You can find previous episodes on the podcast page. For now, give a listen to Episode 116.

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Interview — FAU football with Kevin Fielder

  • How did the Lane Kiffin era change expectations for the Willie Taggart regime?
  • Where does quarterback N’Kosi Perry fit amongst C-USA passers?
  • Optimism for an experienced offensive line group
  • Solving puzzle in the defensive backfield, who starts?
  • Week 0 and scheduling quirks for FAU football in 2022
  • The Lightning Round

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Rice Football 2022 Season Preview: Corners

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As part of our 2022 Rice Football Preseason Preview series, this week we’ll dive into the corner position and discuss the Owls’ plans for that group this season.

It’s been quite an adventure on the outside for the Rice football defense in recent years. The corner position went through quite the overall over the past two seasons and then was flung into further stress by injuries that forced the team to adjust on the fly. Finally healthy, how will the Owls deploy their assets on the back end of the defense this season? Here’s our 2022 Corner Preview.

Rice Football Preseason Preview: Check out the rest of the series here.

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Rice Football: 2022 ESPN FPI projects Rice near C-USA bottom

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The 2022 ESPN FPI projections are out. Where did Rice football come in and how much stock should we put in these projections?

ESPN has released its Football Power Index (FPI) for the 2022 season. FPI is a statistic meant to help predict team performance. Rice football (-14.5 FPI) checked in No. 10 in Conference USA, ahead of only UTEP (-15.0) in the conference. On the opposite end of the spectrum, UAB and Western Kentucky were the frontrunners.

2022 ESPN FPI

  1. UAB, 0.2
  2. WKU, -0.4
  3. UTSA, -2.0
  4. MTSU, -3.9
  5. FAU, -4.4
  6. LA Tech, -5.5
  7. North Texas, -6.2
  8. Charlotte, -7.5
  9. UTEP, -12.1
  10. Rice. -14.5
  11. FIU, -15.0

Looking Closer

Last year, FPI projected Rice to finish with somewhere in the ballpark of five to seven wins. The Owls undershot that mark, winning just four. The numbers don’t project an easier road for the program this season, giving Rice football just a 4.5 percent chance of reaching six wins in 2022. If they were to prove the computers wrong it would mean the first bowl-berth for the program since 2014.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. FPI actually projects the Owls to be better at the onset of 2022 than they finished 2022 (-14.5 vs -18.1). Additionally, the majority of the Owls’ opponents are expected to be below the 0.0 average expected from the metric.

Replacing Elijah Garcia, Naeem Smith, Jordan Myers, Jovaun Woolford and Jake Constantine won’t be easy, but it doesn’t seem that much more challenging than replacing Mike Collins, Austin Trammell and Blaze Alldredge as they had to do last season. Finding a quarterback will be a challenge, but that’s not a new problem at South Main.

Ultimately, FPI projects Conference USA will be a below-average conference in 2022 with the possibility of only a handful of truly good to great teams. That’s who the Owls will have to beat if they want to return to the postseason, and they did topple UAB (the highest rated C-USA team this coming season) in Birmingham last season.

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