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Rice Football 2025 Fall Camp Notebook: Early Returns

August 2, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

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 Houston heat hanging in the air. The Owls continued their installs on both sides of the ball and got a look at their many new faces who have arrived in the past few weeks.

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This update runs through the early standouts and notables with some comments from Abell and early takeaways through the first two days of camp.

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2025 Rice Football Season Preview: Quarterback

June 24, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

Next up in our 2025 Rice Football Season Preview: quarterback. Here’s our breakdown of the Owls’ plans for the group this season.

The Rice football quarterback room returns many of the same players from a season ago, but a new head coach and a new scheme make for a very different outlook this time around. There is no incumbent—EJ Warner left via the Transfer Portal—setting the stage for a pivotal quarterback battle that began in the spring and will continue into fall camp. Here’s a preview of the quarterback position in 2025.

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Rice Football Recruiting: QB Patrick Crayton Jr. commits to Owls

January 13, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

The 2025 Rice Football Recruiting class has its QB1. Hebron High School quarterback Patrick Crayton Jr. has committed to the Owls.

In search of a quarterback for the 2025 Rice Football recruiting class since he arrived, new head coach Scott Abell finally has his man. Dual-threat Hebron High School quarterback Patrick Crayon Jr. has committed to the Owls.

Crayton fills a void in a 2025 class full of playmakers, but without a signal-caller following a December defection following the coaching change. An under-the-radar playmaker, Crayton had a handful of junior college and lower division offers, keeping him on the market this late in the calendar. Rice swooped in with an offer on January 13. He committed just hours later.

“Getting to know [Coach Abell] and the staff, had great conversations, just discussing my future,” Crayton told The Roost. “Rice felt like a great place to develop and be a great football player.”

After retaining the bulk of the class that had already committed, Abell was choosy with his next handful of high school offers. Crayton is just the second non-transfer commitment to the 2025 class since Abell arrived, the other being offensive lineman Justin Michaelis who committed in mid-December.

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Crayton’s film is electric and easy to connect to what the Owls want to do on offense with his skill set. He has a big arm with great touch downfield and is a dynamic runner with the ball in his hands. That ability to create, “to make plays out of nothing and be able to extend plays [on the ground], is something Crayton says he prides himself in as a player. The tape backs it up.

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