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What’s about Rice Football seniors and eligibility for 2021? All-American Q&A

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All-American Level subscribers on Patreon get access to a monthly Q&A with me. This update focuses on eligibility and potential Rice football returning seniors.

Q. Can Collins come back since he only played 3 games?

Q. Do you expect any senior/grad transfers to come back next year?

A. There were a couple of questions to this effect in my most recent mailbag ask, so I decided to address them together, starting with the eligibility rules for the 2020 season and leading into how that impacts Rice football specifically in 2021 and beyond.

First, the 2020 season did not count against the eligibility of anyone who played football this fall.

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Rice Football Film Room 2020: UAB Review

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Rice Football wrapped up its shortened 2020 season with a home loss to UAB. This week’s film room digs into two key plays from that defeat.

Losing to UAB in frustrating fashion at home wasn’t the ideal end for this strange, abbreviated Rice football season. But I’ll say what I said both on The Roost Podcast and on Twitter: if you’d told me two weeks ago that Rice would split these last two games over Marshall and UAB, with one being a shutout win and the other a 5-point loss, and with Wiley Green playing more meaningful snaps than Mike Collins, I’d have taken it in a heartbeat.

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There’s no point, to me, in rehashing the plays that cost Rice the game. I still have full confidence in the future of this program (and belief in what this season would have been, minus a pandemic and some injuries), so let’s look at a few things that give us some optimism in the future, shall we?

Much of Rice’s fortunes for the immediate future will depend on whether or not Mike Collins returns for the 2021 season. But JoVoni Johnson is a factor at the quarterback position regardless, especially when you consider that the free pass of eligibility this year means he could play *four more years* at Rice, if both he and the program want him to.

Painting the corner

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Rice Football Recruiting: Breaking down the 2021 signees – Offense

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The 2021 Rice Football Recruiting class features a ton of talent on the offensive side of the ball, starting up front in the trenches.

Rice signed 18 players on the first day of the Early Signing Period. Of their new additions, 16 are current high school seniors. 7 of them play on the offensive side of the ball, the focal point of this update. They added one more on the last day of the three-day window. Subscribers can check out this position by position breakdown of the 2021 Rice Football recruiting class.

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Quarterback (2) – Shawqi Itraish, Jake Constantine
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Rice Football Recruiting: Breaking down the 2021 signees – Defense

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The 2021 Rice Football Recruiting class has stocked with defensive talent at all three levels from a rangy secondary to powerful additions in the front seven.

Rice signed 18 players on the first day of the Early Signing Period. Of their new additions, 16 are current high school seniors. 11 of them play on the defensive side of the ball, the focal point of this update. Subscribers can check out this position by position breakdown of the 2021 Rice Football recruiting class.

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Defensive Line (4) – Cal Varner, Jalen Hargrove, Elroyal Morris, Blake Boenisch
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Rice Football Recruiting: 5 Takeaways from 2021 Early Signing Period

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The first members of the 2021 Rice Football recruiting class signed this week, setting the stage for an exciting future at South Main.

The ink is starting to dry on the first day of the Early Signing Period and the 2021 Rice Football recruiting class is off to a great start. Rice signed 18 players, representing the majority of their scholarship additions to their 2021 class.

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This class isn’t done yet — there are still a few more weeks before National Signing Day in February — but as it currently stands, here are a few immediate reactions from a group that could end up being pretty special for the Owls.

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1. Ratings boost

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