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The Devy Notebook 2026: Volume 5

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The first four weeks of the season in college football typically give us a glimpse into which freshmen are earning meaningful playing time. This week marked the beginning of conference play, which means we get to see if the players who have been crushing it to begin the year can continue their success against more difficult competition. Without further ado, dive into Volume 5 of The Devy Notebook.

A sleeper tight end made his mark against the reigning national champions. Luke Dehnicke transferred up from the G6 to Northwestern for his sophomore season and was arguably the best player on the field for either team this weekend. He is 6 ‘6 ” 240 lb. tight end with a strong athletic profile. He had 7 grabs for 140 yards in this one after registering 1,119 yards and 14 touchdowns for Minnesota Duluth last year. If he can string together more solid starts against similarly tough Big Ten defenses, his stock could soar. 
I am starting to believe that Wake Forest wide receiver Carlos Hernandez could find himself getting drafted in the 2027 class. Every season there is a player who has an extremely strong production profile, and Hernandez is making the case to be this year’s version. He caught 9 balls for 194 yards and one touchdown in a win over a ranked Louisville team to crush their playoff aspirations. Coming into this week, he was tied with Jeremiah Smith for the most explosive plays in college football. He is tough and twitchy with the ball in his hands, forcing 12 missed tackles this year (first in the ACC). He also has an outstanding 4.34 YPRR. 
We better hear some news soon that Isaac Brown has a nagging injury. He has very clearly been the second-best running back for Louisville this season and has not shown any of the explosiveness that we’ve seen in prior seasons. He rushed for only 3.7 ypc again this week. As it stands, I would strongly consider drafting Keyjuan Brown over Isaac Brown if faced with the decision.
We have seen nothing to inspire any level of confidence in Quinten Joyner through four games. His poor performances were capped off this weekend with 8 carries for 12 yards (1.5 yards per carry). He is still technically returning from a lower limb injury that kept him out of the 2025 season, and I suspect he will need next season to rehab his stock as well.
JJ Buchanan continued his consistent start to the 2026 season, totaling 130 yards and 2 touchdowns in a one-point loss to Iowa this weekend. He began his career as a tight end with Utah, but has already matched his production from last year in only four games. I would be surprised if his 6’4” frame transitions well at the position in the NFL, but I question if he wouldn’t consider a change back to tight end to be a matchup nightmare for an NFL offense. He also finds himself in the top 5 in all of college football for receiving yards per team pass attempt, which is one of the more predictive metrics for future fantasy success.

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Week 4 College Football Highlights and Injury Report

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Week 4 gave us a little bit of everything. We had a former five-star quarterback come off the bench and remind everybody why he was such a big recruiting name. We had a young SEC quarterback continue to force his way onto the radar. We had running backs handle massive workloads, veteran transfers make explosive plays and a pair of highly valued quarterbacks survive games where their offensive lines did them very few favors.

But this article is not about chasing box scores. Every week I want to figure out what actually matters for C2C. Did a player’s value change? Did his role change? Was the production sustainable, or did one huge play make the final stat line look better than the performance really was? Then, as always, we will finish with the injuries we need to monitor going into next week.

Oregon vs. USC
Dylan Raiola, QB, Oregon

Dylan Raiola came off the bench after Dante Moore left the game and completed 19 of 25 passes for 289 yards, 11.6 yards per attempt, two passing touchdowns and no interceptions. He was not sacked, did not record a rushing attempt or fumble, and led Oregon to a 41 to 27 win after Moore left the game.

Raiola’s 62-yard completion to Dierre Hill Jr. came early in the third quarter with Oregon leading 13 to 10. His 34-yard completion to Jamari Johnson came later with Oregon ahead 20 to 17. Those two plays supplied 96 yards, or 33.2 percent of Raiola’s production. Remove them, and he was still 17 of 23 for 193 yards, 8.4 yards per attempt, with both touchdowns.

That was legit. The former five-star recruit entered with 4,819 career passing yards and 31 touchdowns from his two seasons at Nebraska, so we are not pretending this came from nowhere. What changed is the landing spot and the possibility that Oregon can keep its offense alive without Moore. I’m moving Raiola back onto the active C2C board, but the immediate value depends heavily on Moore’s health and Oregon’s quarterback decision.

Dante Moore, QB, Oregon

Moore completed 8 of 10 passes for 77 yards, 7.7 yards per attempt, with no touchdowns or interceptions before leaving. He was not sacked, added one carry for 10 yards, and did not fumble. His 37-yard completion supplied 48.1 percent of his passing yards. Without it, he was 7 of 9 for 40 yards and 4.4 yards per attempt.

The injury is the story here, not the box score, and this is a hold until we know more. There is no reason to make a C2C valuation move based on an incomplete game and an unresolved injury, especially when we still do not know how long Moore could be out or what Oregon plans to do at quarterback.

C2C takeaway: Raiola is back on the active board. Moore is a hold until we have more information.

Mississippi State vs. Missouri
Kamario Taylor, QB, Mississippi State

Kamario Taylor completed 27 of 38 passes for 360 yards, 9.5 yards per attempt, three passing touchdowns and one interception in Mississippi State’s 31 to 24 win. He took four sacks and added 10 carries for 7 yards with no rushing touchdowns or fumbles.

His 43-yard touchdown to Sanfrisco Magee came in a scoreless first quarter. The 48-yard completion to Anthony Evans III came with 4:54 remaining and the game tied at 24, setting up the winning touchdown. Those plays supplied 91 yards. Without them, Taylor was still 25 of 36 for 269 yards, 7.5 yards per attempt, and two touchdowns.

This kid is forcing us to pay attention. Taylor is a 6-foot-4, 230-pound sophomore who threw only 77 passes last season. Now he has delivered a 360-yard performance and a fourth-quarter answer against an SEC defense. That combination of youth, frame, and production was enough for me to move Taylor all the way to QB1 in my C2C rankings this week.

The failure condition is still pressure. Four sacks and the interception remind us that he is developing, but this was more than empty production. At this point, I’m not just watching Kamario Taylor anymore. I’m treating him like one of the most valuable quarterbacks on the campus side.

Fluff Bothwell, RB, Mississippi State

Fluff Bothwell carried 25 times for 122 yards, 4.9 yards per carry, with a long of 18 and one rushing touchdown. He caught 6 of 7 targets for 55 yards and another touchdown. That gave him 31 touches, 177 scrimmage yards, two total touchdowns, and no fumbles.

There was no 50-yard run inflating this line. Bothwell earned everything across a massive workload. He already had consecutive productive seasons entering this year, but seven targets are the important development. If that receiving work sticks, he becomes more than a campus hammer and his C2C profile becomes more interesting because that gives us another avenue for production. I’m moving him up modestly and buying before everybody decides one Saturday made him a guaranteed NFL feature back.

C2C takeaway: Taylor made the biggest move of the week for me and is now my QB1 in C2C. Bothwell gets a bump, especially if the receiving work continues.

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Devy Players of the Week – Week 4

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Week 4 of college football is officially in the books! Hopefully your rostered devy players have been moving up DFF’s consensus Big Boards and not down. There’s a lot of movement in these early weeks of the season, as players firmly establish roles in their offense and begin to stand out among the rest. With that, let’s take a look at this week’s top performances! 

Quarterback

Keelon Russell (QB – Alabama)
21-27, 365 yards, 4 TDs, 0 INTs
6 attempts, 46 yards, 1 TD

Could Alabama make a run at the National Championship this year? With Keelon Russell under center, I wouldn’t count them out. Russell lands on my DPTOW list for the second consecutive week as the Crimson Tide DISMANTLED this South Carolina Gamecock defense, winning 49-18. 

Russell accounted for over 400 yards of offense and five total touchdowns in this one, once again looking calm and polished in the pocket throughout. Russell has moved up to my devy QB1 overall, but he has some difficult challenges ahead, to say the least. Bama’s next four games: Mississippi State, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas A&M, and LSU. If he can make it through this stretch unscathed, we may be looking at the 1.01 in 2028 dynasty rookie drafts. 

Julian Sayin (QB – Ohio State)
27-36, 367 yards, 4 TDs, 0 INTs
9 attempts, 27 yards, 1 TD

Julian Sayin and the Buckeyes took care of business against the Illini this weekend, winning by a score of 42-19. Sayin put up an identical stat line to Russell, posting nearly 400 yards of offense and five touchdowns of his own. Through four games this year, Sayin has racked up over 1,200 yards and 12 total touchdowns with just one interception. 

Resident Buckeye fan and DFF analyst @Evan_Kerr_ has pointed out that Sayin may not have an NFL arm, frequently underthrowing his receivers deep. Luckily, he has arguably the best receiver in college football history on his team, so he gets bailed out frequently. I’m not sold on Sayin as a dynasty asset yet, but as with any quarterback, we’ll have to see what kind of draft capital and landing spot he gets. Even if he gets a starting job, his fantasy ceiling is capped with his lack of rushing upside. 

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Rewriting the Devy QB Board: Unconventional Stars Lead the 2027 Class

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The 2027 NFL Draft class is shaping up to be an excellent, albeit unconventional, group of prospects, headlined by a couple of zero-star recruits, a three-star, an elite legacy, and a Midwest blue-chipper.

As college football enters week 4, I am planting my flag with my current top five signal-callers – with the clear understanding that this board remains fluid and several rising prospects are still within striking distance.

Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss – “The Magician”

Operating with the elusive agility of an escape artist, this former zero-star recruit routinely pulls highlight-reel plays out of thin air. Reminiscent of Caleb Williams, Chambliss’ elite ability to manipulate defensive spacing and orchestrate out-of-structure chaos has made him the most lethal drive-and-dish point guard in college football. The beautiful thing? He can operate on time and in rhythm too. This combination and elite belief in himself make him the most dangerous quarterback in the country when the game hangs in the balance; to say he’s capable of last-minute magic is an understatement. 

However, while he possesses tremendous physical gifts, a shorter physical build right at the 6-foot threshold will give traditional front offices pause. Furthermore, because he fought for a sixth year of eligibility, Chambliss will be 25 years old in week 1 of the 2027 NFL season, forcing NFL decision-makers to evaluate him as an older prospect. 

Drew Mestemaker, Oklahoma State – “The Gun-Slinger”

Another phenomenal zero-star walk-on story, Mestemaker defies developmental trajectories, relying instead on a talented, quick-trigger arm that stylistically conjures images of Phillip Rivers and Aaron Rodgers. He plays with a fearless bravado, constantly attacking tight intermediate windows and driving the ball deep downfield with supreme confidence. 

Mestemaker’s biggest flaw is a lack of historical reps and playing in a purely collegiate system. The quarterback famously rarely played in high school and had to walk on to the North Texas program just to earn a chance to play college football. Furthermore, the Cowboys’ prolific air-raid system, led by head coach Eric Morris, is viewed as a college-specific scheme whose passing philosophies are only utilized in snippets at the professional level. 

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The Devy Notebook 2026: Volume 4

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Welcome back to the fourth edition of the Devy Notebook 2026. We are inching closer to conference play, which will be the true test for most devy players that we care about, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t some notes from this weekend’s games. Let’s see who made an impression this week. 

Darian Mensah’s accuracy was truly on display this week. He completed 30/34 passes for 220 yards and 3 touchdowns. He will be one of the most difficult evaluations this season because only one defense will truly test Miami before the playoffs, and it won’t happen until November 7th against Notre Dame. If you have been following along with the Devy Notebook since its inception, you know that we have been on Darian Mensah since his time at Duke. It seems more and more likely that our deep shot from a couple of years ago becomes a first-round pick next spring.
The world was touting Jalen Lott. The devy community has been waiting for Gatlin Bair. But absolutely no one was expecting Oregon freshman Messiah Hampton to be a budding star. He caught 6 balls for 71 yards and two touchdowns this weekend against Portland State, which was 3 more catches and 46 more yards than Lott and Bair combined. It’s hard to make any recommendations off of one game against lower competition, but any freshman getting this type of playing time for a top-tier team should be stashed. 
Darius Taylor did not play this week, and yet again he finds himself frequently on the injury report. I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: if your body cannot hold up against college competition, how can we ever expect it to hold up against the athletes in the NFL? If you own any Taylor shares, my best advice is to get out while you still can. 
We saw glimpses of the old Justice Haynes this weekend against Mercer as he rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns. Two average showings against Colorado and Tennessee in prior weeks left us underwhelmed and prevented him from getting his name in the recent first-round mock draft from DFF. We need to see more against better competition as conference play begins. 
Many predicted a breakout season for Clemson running back Gideon Davidson this season. He had his best game of the year against UNC this past weekend, rushing for 105 yards and 1 touchdown. If you’re box score scouting, this line is encouraging. But we aren’t here for the box score. There were multiple runs that showed poor vision, slow feet, and poor lateral cutting ability. He is the type of runner that instills confidence in his opponents, not the other way around. 

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Devy Players of the Week – Week 3

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How is Week 3 of college football already in the books? Time flies when you’re watching the greatest sport on planet Earth. Anyway, you guys know the drill by now. I’m bringing you the top two performances from each fantasy position this week, focusing solely on future NFL prospects. Let’s see who made the cut. 

Quarterback

Jaron Keawe-Sagapolutele (QB – Cal)
27-33, 448 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INTs

The Hawaiian southpaw had his best game of the season yesterday, granted it was against an FCS opponent in Wagner. He threw for 448 yards and three touchdowns in just 2.5 quarters, scoring on seven of eight drives. JKS was nearly perfect under center this weekend, but we expected as much against this level of competition. 

I want to see him take another step forward in P4 play; against Syracuse and UCLA this year, he’s sitting with just a 60% completion rate and 6.0 yards per attempt. He’ll need to be more efficient as a passer to solidify his spot as the devy QB1, given he provides nothing on the ground. Realistically, we’ll need him to become a Joe Burrow-level passer to be a first-round startup pick in dynasty formats (which I believe is in his range of outcomes). 

Keelon Russell (QB – Alabama)
23-30, 320 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INTs
5 attempts, 62 yards, 1 TD

Keelon legacy game! What a performance from the sophomore in a shootout win against Florida State. He accounted for nearly 400 yards of offense and four total touchdowns (three passing, one rushing), not even turning the ball over once. 

This was the kind of stat line we were waiting for after two underwhelming box scores to start the season. Russell looked confident as ever in the pocket this weekend, with polished mechanics and a lightning-quick release. He’s a pass-first quarterback with the mobility and burst to tuck it and run at any time. This 2028 quarterback class is shaping up to be incredible, with JKS, Keelon, and Kamario Taylor leading the charge. 

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My Top 15 2027 Freshmen Prospects

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I’ve been working through this 2027 class for a while now, and the more I dig into it, the more I like what we have. I’ve already talked about a lot of these names with Luigi and Papi on Devy Degens, including several players we grabbed during our 2027 prospect draft. Now that I’ve had more time to work through the class, I wanted to put my own top 15 together and show where I’m at today. I’ll also be getting into this class again soon on Always Be Scouting with Griddy and Cuse.

If you’ve followed my scouting work before, you already know how I approach this. I’m not taking somebody else’s rankings, moving a few names around, and calling it scouting. I want to know what a player actually does well, whether those traits are going to translate when everybody on the field gets bigger and faster, and what still needs to develop before I’m comfortable projecting him forward.

For me, it always comes back to traits over hype, translation over production, and tape first. Production matters, size matters, and testing matters, but those things are there to support what I’m seeing on the field, not tell me what I’m supposed to think.

One thing to understand with the grades is that they are not always going to match the exact order of the board. The grade is my evaluation of the overall prospect today. The ranking is where I personally want that player on my board. Sometimes preference, fantasy translation, or what I think the player can become is going to move somebody ahead of a player with a slightly higher grade.

My S tier is my own five-star grading tier, and that starts at 9.0. I’m not handing that out just because somebody is a great high school player. If I’m putting five stars next to a prospect, I want to feel like there are very few major translation questions left. Nobody is there yet, but two players are getting pretty damn close.

1. Kemon Spell (RB – Georgia)

Grade: 8.9/9

Spell is still my No. 1 player in this class, and the more I watch him, the easier it is for me to keep him there. At 5’10” and around 205 pounds, he already has almost exactly the kind of build I want at running back. He’s compact, thick, and low to the ground, but what really separates him for me is that he actually knows how to play the position.

He sees the hole, stays square, lets blocks develop, and gets north without wasting movement. He isn’t bouncing everything outside looking for a highlight because he knows he can outrun most of the defense. He rushed for 1,755 yards and 28 touchdowns in 2025 despite missing five games, but the numbers just confirm what I already see.

The vision is high-level, the feet are really good, and he has the burst and contact balance to create more than what is blocked for him. I also think he has enough natural receiving ability to eventually get a real three-down role. I still want to see more route development and better pass protection, but those are developmental questions, not reasons for me to move him down.

Spell is the closest player on this board to my five-star tier. If the rest of the game develops the way I think it can, I’m looking at a three-down NFL starter with early-round upside.

2. Trae Taylor (QB – Nebraska)

Grade: 8.9//9

Taylor is still my QB1 because he already does the quarterback things I care about most. Accuracy comes first for me, then ball placement, processing, pocket awareness, and the ability to deliver the football on time. He checks those boxes better than anybody else in this quarterback group right now.

He threw for 3,571 yards, 38 touchdowns, and only three interceptions in 2025 while adding 633 rushing yards and another 12 touchdowns. The production is impressive, but I’m more interested in how he gets there. He anticipates throws, understands where the window is going to be, and doesn’t need every receiver to be completely uncovered before letting the football go.

Taylor also moves well enough inside the pocket without immediately turning every broken play into backyard football. At around 6’3” and 200 pounds, I still want another 15 to 20 pounds on him, and his reported 9.25-inch hands come in a little below the 9.5-inch mark I prefer.

Those are things I’m tracking, but they aren’t enough to move him off QB1. Taylor already plays quarterback instead of just showing quarterback tools, and there is a big difference between the two.

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Austin Simmons: Who the Hell is This Kid?

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Every college football season, an unexpected quarterback prospect seems to emerge from the shadows, step into the national spotlight, and enter the conversation as a potential first-round pick. 

In 2019, it was former Ohio State backup, Joe Burrow. In 2025, it was former Cal starter and Indiana Hoosier transfer, Fernando Mendoza. 

2026? Early returns suggest the University of Missouri southpaw gunslinger, Austin Simmons. 

The 247 four-star transfer portal signee arrives at Columbia by way of the Ole Miss Rebels and has the Tigers off and running with a 2-0 record.  

So who is Austin Simmons, and why does there seem to be a groundswell of hype building behind him?

Let’s begin with what makes him truly one-of-a-kind. Simmons is currently in his fourth year of college, 20 years old, and working on his master’s. A true academic prodigy, he graduated high school in two years and skipped his junior and senior years to jump into the SEC and play at Ole Miss. Originally a class of 2025 quarterback, he reclassified to 2023 to get an early start on his tutelage from Lane Kiffin. 

Drawn to Ole Miss specifically because of Kiffin’s offensive prowess and ability to develop elite quarterbacks, the high school two-sport phenom was also swayed by the promise of being able to play football and baseball in Oxford. 

In the summer of 2023, Simmons flipped his commitment from the Florida Gators to Ole Miss and spent the fall 2023 season taking a redshirt year to adapt to the speed of college athletics. Simmons joined the Mississippi baseball team as a left-handed relief pitcher. He made 13 bullpen appearances, putting up a stellar 3.21 ERA and a 2-0 record before a minor elbow sprain ended his baseball season. After the injury, Simmons stepped away from baseball to focus on football, his first love. 

In the fall of 2024, Simmons was back on the gridiron as the primary backup to future first-round pick Jaxson Dart. He appeared in nine games, flashing high-end upside.

After Dart’s departure, Simmons beat out the competition in fall camp and was named the undisputed starter for the 2025 season. In week 1, he exploded for 341 yards and 3 touchdowns against Georgia State. However, in week 2 against Kentucky, he suffered a pivotal left ankle injury. While Simmons healed, little-known backup, former Division II star and potential 2026 first-round pick, Trinidad Chambliss took over, and the offense caught fire, leading the Rebels to a College Football Playoff berth and leaving Simmons relegated to the bench. 

Recognizing the writing was on the wall, Simmons entered the transfer portal on January 2, 2026. Four days later, he joined the Tigers of Missouri. 

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The Devy Notebook 2026: Volume 3

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Welcome back to the third edition of the Devy Notebook 2026. It feels like the season is just beginning, and we’re only one weekend of games away from being 25% of the way through it. In a largely non-conference slate, it can be difficult to balance overreactions and underreactions, but I am here to sift through the relevant devy players for you and advise you on which players you should be paying attention to. Let’s see who made an impression during this week’s games. 

Malachi Toney was at it again this weekend, quickly racking up 96 yards and a touchdown against a much lesser opponent in the first half. We have now seen through two weeks that Toney’s route tree is evolving and his aDOT is improving this season compared to last. It’s the first step we needed to start pushing him into the upper echelon of dynasty wide receivers. If he is going to be used down the field like this consistently, there is no reason to keep him out of the top 4 overall devy wide receivers. 
Reed Harris looked like he could not be covered against Texas A&M. The 6’5”, 220 lb. wide receiver caught 9 passes for 189 yards and two touchdowns this weekend. He is a fluid mover off the line of scrimmage and shows some wiggle at the top of his route that helps him create easy separation. His frame also allows him to reel in contested catches along the sideline over smaller defensive backs. Add his name to an already deep 2027 wide receiver class. 
Isaac Brown has always been known for his speed and athleticism. His efficiency as a runner is one of the biggest reasons why many of us drafted him in C2C leagues and were excited about him as an NFL prospect. Coming into this season, he would have received my vote for “which college running back can be the next De’Von Achane”, but despite similar volume to previous seasons, his efficiency has plummeted by nearly 5 yards per carry. Maybe it’s a lingering offseason injury that is keeping him from being as explosive, but without this explosiveness, his NFL stock is going to take a massive hit.
I cannot overstate how strongly I am beginning to believe in Fame Ijeboi as a future NFL player. His patience and vision at the line of scrimmage, followed by his ability to burst through open holes, have me intrigued, but perhaps the most enticing part of his game is his shiftiness despite being a thicker back. On multiple occasions, we have seen him use a dead leg or double stick to juke an oncoming defender. He also keeps his pad level low, which enables him to run through arm tackles and pick up yards after contact. He currently ranks as PFN’s 4th highest-graded running back through two weeks, behind only Jadan Baugh, Nate Sheppard, and Jamal Rule. 

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Devy Players of the Week: Week 2

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Welcome back to Week 2 of Devy Players of the Week! The headline game was a clash of titans between Ohio State and Texas, with the Longhorns pulling off a stunning comeback. We have plenty of future NFL talent to break down, so let’s get into it.

Quarterbacks

Lincoln Kienholz (QB – Louisville)

16-22, 332 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs
6 attempts, 42 yards, 2 TDs

What a start to the season for Lincoln Kienholz. After racking up nearly 400 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns in Week 1 against Ole Miss, Kienholz posted an even better stat line in Week 2 against Villanova. We got another 374 yards and four total touchdowns (two passing, two rushing) from the Ohio State transfer in this one.

We went from wondering whether Kienholz could secure a starting gig to Kienholz playing some of the best football in the country through two weeks. He’s a guy to watch going forward; if he gains NFL buzz, Kienholz has the rushing upside to be an intriguing fantasy option.  

Kamario Taylor (QB – Mississippi St.) 

16-23, 227 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INTs
12 attempts, 91 yards, 0 TDs

Perhaps nobody in the country has seen a bigger surge in devy value than Kamario Taylor out of Mississippi State. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound monster has gotten off to a blazing start this year, dominating both as a passer and a rusher. We knew he was a Konami-Code player coming into this season, but what’s impressed me most is his tools as a passer. Taylor has a cannon for an arm, can zip it into tight windows, can throw on the run, and shows poise beyond his years in the pocket. He showed off the full repertoire this weekend, having his way with Minnesota Gophers’ defense from start to finish. 

Speaking of years, did you know this kid is only 19? That’s right. Taylor is a true sophomore and isn’t even eligible to declare until 2028. We could be looking at the next Kyler Murray, only six inches taller and 25 pounds heavier. There’s a case to be made for Taylor as the devy QB1 overall now. 

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Devy/C2C Stashes: LSU Freshman Playmakers, Phillip Wright III and Corey Barber

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However you feel about LSU head football coach and controversial enigma Lane Kiffin, one thing remains: the man can put points on the scoreboard. Across his 15-year career as a head coach, Kiffin’s teams have averaged 35.4 points per game, ranking in the top five among active FBS college football head coaches [minimum five seasons coached]. Exclude the numbers from Tennessee and USC; when he ran a slow, methodical, pro-style system, the average jumps to 37.1 PPG. At Florida Atlantic University [FAU], Kiffin began shifting to his version of the veer-and-shoot. Kiffin marries pro-style passing progression, pass protection rules, and tight-end-heavy packages with the up-tempo, spread-the-field, RPO-heavy scheme. Call it a pro-Spread hybrid built on the Veer-and-Shoot architecture. This offense creates space by splitting its wide receivers out to the literal sidelines and numbers, horizontally stretching defenses and making them defend every blade of grass, leaving gaps for the right play call to target and gash. Speedy weapons out wide are essential to executing this. When Kiffin arrived in Baton Rouge for the 2026 season, he completely overhauled the wide receiver room via the transfer portal. Yet, two unique names have emerged from the dust as stash opportunities for your Devy/C2C rosters. 

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C2C Start/Sit: Week 2

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Week 2 is where things start getting interesting. We finally have some real game action to work with. Roles are starting to take shape, backfields are getting a little clearer, and some of those preseason assumptions are already being tested. The goal here is still the same. I am not going to tell you to start the obvious stars. We are looking for the players whose matchup, workload, or current situation could be the difference in your campus lineup this week. As always, every C2C league is different. Your scoring, lineup requirements, and roster can change a close decision. Let’s get into it.

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The Devy Notebook 2026: Volume 2

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Labor Day weekend finally arrived, which typically marks the true beginning of any given college football season. Though the games featured many lopsided matchups, we still had plenty to look at across the devy landscape. The biggest challenge in the early part of the college football season is avoiding overreactions to performances, whether they be over or underwhelming. Though not as long as the NFL’s, the college football season still gives players plenty of time to bounce back in either direction. We have to remember that water always finds its level. In the second installment of The Devy Notebook 2026, I will examine what I saw during week one of the college football season and let you know whether to buy into a player or if you should hold the line and wait to see how things play out in the coming weeks. Let’s get into it. 

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Devy Players of the Week: Week 1

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Welcome back for the Week 1 edition of Devy Players of the Week! We still have a few Sunday and Monday night games to wrap up Week 1, but given that I’ll be M.I.A. until next Sunday, I figured I’d better get you all an article now. This week featured a ton of elite performances, making it tough to select just two winners per position. We’ve got plenty to cover, so let’s not waste any more time!  

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Isaiah Horton: The Most Underrated Wide Receiver in Devy and C2C

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In late December 2025, head coach Mike Elko and offensive coordinator Holmon Wiggins knew they had a problem.

Problem? What problem? They just finished 11-2 in regular-season play and qualified for the university’s first-ever appearance in the college football playoff, losing to the eventual runner-up, Miami, 3-10. 

Yes, the season was a success, but in the big-money, big-stakes business of modern-day college football, only championships matter, and resting on your laurels will get you fired. 

After starting X wide receiver Noah Thomas transferred to Georgia, the 2025 Texas A&M wide receiver room had a hole and consisted only of players six-foot and under. The lack of size was cited as one of the reasons TAMU couldn’t score a touchdown against the physical Hurricane defense.

Elko and Wiggins needed to completely reset the boundary position in the portal, and when the portal opened on January 2nd, they immediately targeted former Alabama wide receiver Isaiah Horton, officially signing him on January 11th, recapturing that missing, dominant ‘True X’.

Isaiah Horton was a 247 four-star from Tennessee who committed to the University of Miami out of high school. Horton broke out in his redshirt sophomore year while being led by 1st overall NFL Draft pick Cam Ward.

Horton jumped into the transfer portal and joined Kalen DeBoer and Ty Simpson at the University of Alabama. After enjoying another productive season, Horton decided to enter the portal again, claiming the departure was amicable but wasn’t comfortable in his role. 

Coach Holmon Wiggins offered Horton a crystal-clear, high-volume blueprint that guaranteed Horton the undisputed, alpha “X” boundary role where his 6’4″, 215-pound frame could command a massive target share for NFL scouts. 

A bonus for Horton was Marcel Reed. Both players are from the Volunteer State and played together on the 7-on7 circuit. 

“He adds a different dimension to the room, maybe a dimension that we were missing last year in terms of pure size and height, the ability to go and make contested catches.”

– Texas A&M head football coach Mike Elko

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The Devy Notebook 2026: Volume 1

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It’s officially that time of year. No more talking about prospects and what we think they are capable of. No more victory laps after spring reports and camp news. The players stepped onto the field for the first time this past weekend, and despite the game slate being a lighter one, there are still plenty of takeaways for us devy fanatics. 

This will now be the third season of The Devy Notebook. For anyone new here, this series was born out of my love for sitting on my couch and watching live college football games week in and week out. I decided to put pen to paper and share my analysis of prominent devy players for all the world to see. I intend to go deeper this year than ever before, and I hope you all enjoy the ride. Without further ado, it’s time to kick this season off with my takeaways from week 0 of the college football season.

The NFL draft community loves to push sleeper prospects on social media. Recently, I have seen some chatter regarding TCU transfer QB Jaden Craig as a potential riser this season. The first game of the college football season showed us exactly the opposite. Craig is not a mobile QB despite many touting him to be, and he was not nearly as accurate as he was during his time at Harvard. The entire TCU team may just be terrible this season, and Craig is not the guy to take them to any promised lands. Feel free to sleep on him.

On the opposing team in this game were two lower-tier players that are worth mentioning. Both Jordan Shipp and Jelani Thurman were focal points of the UNC offense, and I will be curious to see if the Thurman portion of this duo sticks. He caught 4 passes for 94 yards and was seen multiple times as an athletic and willing blocker in the run game. If Thurman can produce at this clip with any consistency while also being under the tutelage of Bill Belichick, he could be a very sneaky player for the 2027 NFL draft. 

Waymond Jordan only rushed the ball 8 times this weekend for USC. Part of this was because they easily handled the opposing San Jose State Spartans, and part of it was because King Miller is a very good running back in his own right. In the little work we saw from Jordan, it was clear that he has some of the best vision at the line of scrimmage of any back that will be in the 2027 class. We need to see him stay healthy for an entire season before we anoint him as one of the next stars of NFL fantasy football, but the writing could be on the wall. 

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Devy Players of the Week: Week 0

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In my books, Christmas morning is a close second to the first slate of college football games each season. The long wait for football is finally over, and with it comes the return of our Devy Players of the Week series! If you remember from prior years, I cover the top two performances (in my opinion) at each fantasy position, every week of the college football regular season. 

Week 0 was an abbreviated slate, so we don’t have a ton to choose from, but we still saw some breakout performances and surprises to kick off the 2026 season. As a reminder, this is a Devy series, so we’re focusing solely on guys with a reasonable path to NFL touches down the road. With that, let’s take a look at the standouts from yesterday’s games!

Quarterbacks

Jayden Maiava (QB – USC)

25-29, 286 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs
2 carries, 4 yards, 1 TD

Sure, it was against San Jose State, but senior QB Jayden Maiava had as close to a perfect game as one could hope for to kick things off. He finished with three total touchdowns (2 passing, 1 rushing) and threw just four incompletions all game. He got these numbers in just three quarters, too, as USC’s lead was large enough to sit their veteran playcaller in the fourth. 

I’ve generally been in the camp that Maiava’s efficiency is mostly a product of Lincoln Riley’s fast-paced, spread offense, which relies heavily on quick, simple reads and passes. I’m still skeptical of the NFL upside here, and this game doesn’t change a ton for me, but I’m open to being wrong. There’s no denying Maiava’s production profile, leading the B1G in passing yards and scoring in 2025. Once WRs Terrell Anderson and Tanook Hines return, the ceiling will only be that much higher for the Trojans’ offense. 

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Tony Diaz: College Football’s Next Cinderella Man & Your League Winner

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Since late 2018, the transfer portal has been open for business, but it didn’t boom until 2021. Since then, it has turned college football into an open-market economy and is what many college football purists consider to be a stain on the tradition-laden sport they love. 

Every once in a while, though, it does what it was meant to do at its core: provide opportunity.  

Welcome to college football national consciousness: high school zero-star, zero-offer, and zero-win wide receiver Tony Diaz.

After enduring a grueling 0-10 senior season at San Marcos High School, Diaz signed with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). The brand-new start-up program didn’t play a game in its first season (2024), and he redshirted for the entire calendar year, practicing in internal squad scrimmages. For nearly two years, Diaz didn’t experience a single official football victory.

In 2025, when the Vaqueros finally took the field, not only did Diaz notch wins, he took the FCS by storm.

As a redshirt freshman, Diaz dominated his team’s passing volume, commanding 67 receptions, 875 yards, and 11 touchdowns, earning AP All-American Honorable Mention honors and placing 7th in the Jerry Rice Award voting, the FCS equivalent to National Freshman of the Year. 

Diaz’s breakout at age 19 is not only an incredible feat on the football field but a massive indicator of future success. For the Vaqueros, Diaz wasn’t a part of the offense; he was the offense. 

Dominating FCS competition is one thing; doing it on Saturdays in the Big Ten against Ohio State, Michigan, and other NFL talent-filled schools is an entirely different beast. But that’s exactly what Kirk Ferentz, Tim Lester and the Iowa Hawkeyes expect out of Tony “Boogey Man” Diaz. They were able to nab the coveted transfer portal star over Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois, and Oklahoma State, to name a few. The hook was Diaz continuing the feature role that he thrived in at Edinburg in Iowa City.

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Cam Edwards: Former Zero Star is Dark Horse to Lead B1G in Rushing

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On December 1, 2025, Michigan State University officials were determined to start the new year off right and charted a new course for their beloved football team. 

On that Monday, Pat Fitzgerald, the former Northwestern head coach, vowed to “restore tradition” to the state’s second-most-popular college institution. Replacing the ineffective Jonathan Smith, Fitzgerald brings a culture of physicality and defense to East Lansing that athletic director J Batt says is “an excellent fit for Michigan State football”.

Priority one was reviving a moribund Spartan running game and establishing a physical, Big Ten identity, and that required looking outside of the current locker room to the transfer portal; enter Cam Edwards, running back, UConn.

Fitzgerald targeted and fast-tracked Edwards’ recruiting, hosting him and his UConn teammate, left tackle Ben Mrawski, as soon as the portal opened on January 2nd, securing both commitments within the week. 

Edwards was Pro Football Focus’ number two ranked running back available in the transfer portal and had significant interest from Penn State, Nebraska, LSU, TAMU, Alabama, Texas, Notre Dame, and Michigan, among others. The Spartans won out by offering Edwards something none of the other top-tier programs could offer: an uncontested path to a featured bell-cow role.

Who is Cam Edwards?

A native of Norwalk, Connecticut, Edwards decided to stay home and play for former NFL head coach Jim Mora and the UConn Huskies. Edwards carved out a successful career while in Storrs, playing in 36 career games while starting 23. He enters MSU as a redshirt senior. 

A source with intimate knowledge of those UConn teams on Edwards’ move to MSU:

“He should be their bell cow; that’s perfect for that conference, great kid too, runs hard as shit and falls forward, we used to call him ‘Mr 5 a pop’.”

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