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11/22/22 - Ben Allen, rSr/2024, Eastern Washington + More +

2022 ALL-PATRIOT LEAGUE FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM: LB: Ben Allen, Bucknell, Sr.,...Allen, another team captain, finished second on the Bison roster with 83 total tackles and 43 solo stops. He started each of his last 22 collegiate games at the Mike linebacker position and totaled 158 tackles during that stretch. Allen added four tackles for loss this season, 1.5 sacks and a pass breakup. He recorded double-digit tackles three times and is one of only two seniors that appeared in every game over his four seasons. - Bucknell Football

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ILB Ben Allen, Eastern Washington
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11/19/22 - Tuna Altahir, rJr/2026, Eastern Washington + More +

Kekoa Visperas threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score, Tuna Altahir scored two touchdowns and Eastern Washington snapped a three-game losing streak with a 45-21 win over Northern Colorado on Saturday night in the season finale for both teams. Visperas, in his first career start, completed 17 of 21 passes for 235 yards and his 6-yard TD run capped a nine-play, 75-yard opening drive. Altahir finished with 23 carries for 153 yards rushing.

Dylan McCaffrey threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Noah Ford and Nick Ciccio picked off a pass from Visperas and returned it 43 yards for a touchdown to give Northern Colorado (3-8, 2-6 Big Sky) a 14-7 lead late in the second quarter. Silas Perreiah answered with a 2-yard touchdown run and, after the Bears went three-and-out, Visperas hit Altahir for a 7-yard TD to give Eastern Washinton (3-8, 2-6) the lead for good at 21-14 with 28 seconds left in the first half. Elijah Dotson had 121 yards rushing on 28 carries for Northern Colorado. - Eastern Washington/AP College Football

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RB Tuna Altahir, Eastern Washington
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10/23/22 - Gunner Talkington, rSr/2023, Eastern Washington + More +

Gunner Talkington threw two touchdown passes and Eastern Washington snapped a five-game losing streak Saturday night with a 17-10 win over Cal Poly. Eastern Washington (2-5, 1-3 Big Sky) has won nine straight against the Mustangs (1-6, 0-4). Talkington hit Freddie Roberson for 20-yard touchdown that gave the Eagles a 17-10 lead with 8:54 to play. Cal Poly's final two drives ended near midfield with a fumble and an interception, respectively. Justice Jackson had 91 yards rushing on 17 carries for Eastern Washington and Roberson finished with seven receptions for 64 yards. Efton Chism III added 57 yards receiving and a touchdown on six catches. Kahliq Paulette had 113 yards rushing - including a 57-yard touchdown - on five carries for Cal Poly. - AP College Football

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QB Gunner Talkington, Eastern Washington
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09/06/22 - Gunner Talkington, rSr/2023, Eastern Washington + More +

SEPT 5 BIG SKY OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Gunner Talkington (EWU),...Gunner Talkington, who was making just his second start at quarterback in his six-year career with Eastern Washington, earned his first weekly honor after leading the Eagles to a 36-29 victory over Tennessee State in Week 1. The redshirt senior entered the game with five career touchdown passes and equaled that in just one contest, as Talkington had five scores to go along with his 348 passing yards and 60 rushing yards on the day. With the game tied 29-29 with just under seven minutes to go, Talkington orchestrated an 11-play, 75-yard drive that took 3:53 off the clock and ended with a 13-yard strike to Efton Chism III for the game's winning touchdown. EWU has now won seven of the last 13 Big Sky Offensive Player of the Week awards, as Talkington adds to 2021 Walter Payton Award winner Eric Barriere's record of six last season. Others Nominated, Off: Lucas Johnson (Montana), Beau Kelly (Portland State), Asher O'Hara (Sacramento State), Ulonzo Gilliam Jr. (UC Davis), Jermaine Jackson (Idaho), Elijah Dotson (UNC). - Big Sky Football

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QB Gunner Talkington, Eastern Washington
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09/04/22 - Gunner Talkington, rSr/2023, Eastern Washington + More +

Gunner Talkington's fifth touchdown pass, a 13-yarder to Efton Chism III with 2:39 to play, lifted FCS No. 12 Eastern Washington to a 36-29 win over Tennessee State in a lightning-delayed opening game on Saturday. Talkington, a fifth-year senior in his first start after backing up All-American and Payton Award winner Eric Barriere, was 29 of 46 for 348 yards. He also ran nine times for a team-high 60 yards. Coming into the game he was 32-of-64 passing for 365 yards and five TDs in his career. Tre Weed intercepted a long pass at the EWU 10 with 44 seconds to play to seal the game.

After an almost hour delay late in the third quarter, the Tigers scored 10-straight points to tie the game at 29. Talkington then took the Eagles on an 11-play, 75-yard drive for the win, throwing for the winner after his five-yard touchdown run was wiped out by a penalty. Draylen Ellis, who threw for 257 yards and two scores, tied the game with a 4-yard run with 6:32 to play. Devon Starling ran for 207 yards and a score on 25 carries. Zack Dobson had five receptions for 132 yards with a 67-yard score on a shovel pass to open the scoring. Both teams had 255 yards of offense in the first quarter when Tennessee State took a 19-15 lead. The final tally was 474 for Eastern, which lost a fumble early, and 547 for the Blue Raiders, who had three turnovers and 12 penalties. - Eastern Washington/AP College Football

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QB Gunner Talkington, Eastern Washington
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07/28/22 - Efton Chism III, rSr/2025, Eastern Washington + More +

2022 PRESEASON BIG SKY FOOTBALL ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM: WR Efton Chism III (EWU),...Chism, a sophomore wide receiver, has appeared in 20 games for the Eagles, making nine starts. He currently holds an average of 4.00 receptions per game, which is tied for eighth in school history. He has caught 80 passes for a total of 1,002 yards and 10 touchdowns. He played in all 13 games for the Eagles in 2021, making seven starts. He caught 80 passes for 735 yards (12.9 per reception), which puts him over the 1,000-yard mark for his career. Chism led the team in receiving touchdowns with a total of nine, which was tied for second in the Big Sky Conference. - Eastern Washington Football

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WR Efton Chism III, Eastern Washington
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05/21/22 - Eric Barriere, rSr/2022, Eastern Washington + More +

Former Eastern Washington University quarterback, Eric Barriere, has signed with the Michigan Panthers out of The United States Football League (USFL), as announced today (May 20). Barriere was invited to the Denver Bronco's mini-camp last weekend before signing with the Panthers, where he will wear #22. As announced yesterday, former EWU wide receiver Andrew Boston will make his way to the Canadian Football League (CFL) and has signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats after receiving a tryout with the Kansas City Chiefs earlier in May. Boston has been invited to the Tiger-Cats' training camp where he will wear #86. The USFL is in its inaugural season in the Spring of 2022, providing a 12-week (10 regular season weeks, two postseason) alternative to the National Football League (NFL) during the offseason. - Eastern Washington Football

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QB Eric Barriere, Eastern Washington
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05/01/22 - Alphonse Oywak, rJr/2026, Eastern Washington + More +

Reserve WSU defensive back Alphonse Oywak also entered the transfer portal Friday, per Rivals. The third-year freshman out of Kent played in two games over the past two seasons and recorded all three of his career tackles in WSU's season opener in 2021. Oywak was ranked a four-star prospect, per 247Sports.com, coming out of Kentwood High. - Seattle Times

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CB Alphonse Oywak, Eastern Washington
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11/27/21 - Eric Barriere, rSr/2022, Eastern Washington + More +

Eric Barriere threw for one touchdown and ran for another and the Eastern Washington defense continually came up with big plays in a 19-9 win over Northern Iowa in the first round of the FCS playoffs on Saturday. The Eagles (10-2) advance to a second-round game on Friday night at conference rival Montana, the sixth-seed in the playoffs and a team they beat 34-28 in a battle of Top 10 teams in the middle of the season. Barriere connected with Nolan Ulm for a 26-yard touchdown to open the scoring. Barriere then spun out of a sack, weaved his way past several defenders and raced around the left in for an 18-yard score that made it 16-7 midway through the third quarter.

Three times the Panthers (6-6) stopped Eastern Washington on fourth down and out-gained the Eagles 423-412 but couldn't come up with clutch plays. Keshaun King had two of Eastern's three interceptions and linebacker Ty Graham's 13 tackles led a defense that held Northern Iowa to 2 of 15 on third down and 2 of 5 on fourth down. Two of the fourth down stops were in the fourth quarter, one at the EWU 3. All three picks were in the second half, the last two in the fourth quarter at the EWU 9 and 15. Theo Day threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Sam Schnee in the last minute of the second quarter to make it a 9-7 game. But on their first two possessions of the second half the Panthers missed a field goal and King had a 20-yard return on an interception to the UNI 27 to set up Berriere's run. - Western Kentucky/AP College Football

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QB Eric Barriere, Eastern Washington
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11/24/21 - Eric Barriere, rSr/2022, Eastern Washington + More +

2021 ALL-BIG SKY CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): QB Eric Barriere, EWU,...After being named to the Third-Team in consecutive years, Barriere earns his second-straight First Team quarterback nod and his second-straight Big Sky Player of the Year Award. He leads the FCS with 40 touchdown passes, and is second in passing efficiency (176.0), total offense (406.0 per game) and passing yards (385.6). He is second in points responsible for (266 with 40 TDs through the air, three on the ground and four two-point conversions) and points responsible for per game (24.2). In recent weeks, he has re-written the Big Sky Conference and EWU record books, breaking a trio of major records.

He established two major career records during his performance versus UC Davis on Nov. 13 that included a 34-of-54 passing performance for 411 yards and three touchdowns, plus another 42 yards on the ground. His 10th career passing performance of 400+ yards and his 16th with 400 yards of total offense earned him ROOT Sports Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Week for a record sixth time this season, and 12th time overall in his illustrious career. With 49 total games of experience, he is 29-11 in 40 career games as a starter (16-2 at home), with 12,996 passing yards, 115 touchdown passes, 1,587 yards rushing and 14,583 total yards of offense as an Eagle. - Eastern Washington Football

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QB Eric Barriere, Eastern Washington
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11/24/21 - Ty Graham, rSr/2022, Eastern Washington + More +

2021 ALL-BIG SKY CONFERENCE HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES): MLB Ty Graham, EWU,...Ty Graham earns an Honorable Mention nod for second-straight season. In Eastern's season-opener at UNLV, he had a career-high 14 tackles for his first performance in double figures and has four in his career. In 17 career games with the Eagles (17 starts), he has 136 total tackles, three sacks, 13 total tackles for loss and one interception that he returned 43 yards for his first career touchdown. - Eastern Washington Football

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ILB Ty Graham, Eastern Washington
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11/24/21 - Calin Criner, rSr/2022, Eastern Washington + More +

2021 ALL-BIG SKY CONFERENCE THIRD TEAM (COACHES): DB Calin Criner, EWU,...This is the first All-Big Sky award of Calin Criner's career. In his career, Criner now has nine interceptions (including a 30-yard return for a touchdown versus Northern Colorado on Oct. 9, 2021 and another pick against Montana State on Nov. 6), 265 tackles (16th in EWU history), 18 passes broken up, three forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries in his 52-game career (30 as a starter). He has six performances in his career with at least 10 tackles. The 2016 graduate of Rocky Mountain High School in Boise, Idaho, missed EWU's first four games of the 2020-21 spring season, then started in the final three to close the year with seven tackles and a pass broken up. - Eastern Washington Football

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FS Calin Criner, Eastern Washington
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11/24/21 - Jack Sendelbach, rSr/2022, Eastern Washington + More +

2021 ALL-BIG SKY CONFERENCE THIRD TEAM (COACHES): MLB Jack Sendelbach, EWU,...A three-year co-captain, Sendelbach is honored by the league for the first time in his career. Sendelbach now has 272 tackles (14th in school history) in his 48-game career (27 as a starter), and has had 14 performances in double figures. He also has six career sacks, 31 total tackles for loss, four fumble recoveries and four forced fumbles. - Eastern Washington Football

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ILB Jack Sendelbach, Eastern Washington
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11/24/21 - Mitchell Johnson, rSr/2023, Eastern Washington + More +

2021 ALL-BIG SKY CONFERENCE THIRD TEAM (COACHES): DE Mitchell Johnson, EWU,...This is Mitchell Johnson's third career honor after being named to the first-team in 2020-21 and the second-team as a freshman in 2018. Johnson has been an opportunistic player as EWU's "Buck" defensive end, and he now has 140 tackles in his 45-game career (28 as a starter). He has 13 1/2 sacks, five interceptions, 14 quarterback hurries, seven passes broken up, three fumble recoveries and four forced fumbles.

In the 2020-21 season when he was awarded first team All-Big Sky accolades, Johnson had 26 tackles, two sacks, two interceptions, four quarterback hurries and a pass broken up. Included was his first career touchdown on a 34-yard interception return, and his fifth career interception with a leaping/twisting pick on fourth down with 1:29 remaining in a playoff-clinching victory over Idaho. He burst on the scene as a redshirt freshman in 2018 and earned second team All-Big Sky honors and freshman All-America accolades. - Eastern Washington Football

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DE Mitchell Johnson, Eastern Washington
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11/24/21 - Tristen Taylor, rSr/2022, Eastern Washington + More +

2021 ALL-BIG SKY CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): OL Tristen Taylor, EWU,...Taylor was honored by the league for the fifth-time in his career, the most by any Eagle in program history. He was a first-team selection in 2020-21, second-team selection in 2019, and honorable mention in 2016 and 2017. Entering his seventh season with the Eagles, Taylor, a Stockton, Calif., native and a 2015 Stagg HS graduate, has started all 58 games he's played in to own sole possession of the school record for both games played and career starts. Last year, he helped Eastern rank third in total offense in the FCS with an average of 522.7 yards per game.

Eastern was also fourth nationally in passing (366.7) and eighth in scoring offense (37.7). The Eagles led the FCS in total offense during the regular season. Taylor missed the last 12 games in 2018 with a knee injury, but has started all 30 Eagle games since then. He had started 28-of-28 games as an Eagle until the season-ending injury kept him out of the lineup on Sept. 22, 2018, versus Cal Poly. He tied broke the school record for games played (55, Shaq Hill, 2012-14) and has also broken the record for games started (52, Chris Schlichting, 2016-19 and Cooper Kupp, 2013-16). Now a five-time All-Big Sky selection, Taylor entered the 2021 season with the most starts on the offense and the most overall. - Eastern Washington Football

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