Dave Doeren has suspended seven players for the Louisville game Saturday, as discipline for their participation in the (apparently) increasingly popular game of BB guns sweeping college football recently.
Suspended are two starters (Alston, Fernandez) and five others (Justin Jones, Josh Jones, McKever, Ramos and Stevens).
NC State’s depth chart for the Louisville game has been edited to remove the suspended players and now looks like this As if we didn’t already have enough issues with depth at linebacker we go and lose Jerod Fernandez and replace him with Airius Moore as the starter and Bradley Chubb as back-up. Elsewhere, Joe Thuney is back and has been added as the starter at left guard while Tony Adams and Alex Barr are listed as co-starters at right guard. Monty Nelson is also back replacing Kenton Gibbs as the backup to ever improving BJ Hill.
The good news for State is that Louisville has been getting torched for 15 points per game in their five ACC games. That’s only a touchdown plus two-point conversion more than State has averaged in its past two games.
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NC State suspended seven football players for the Wolfpack’s game at Louisville Saturday following a game with BB guns at their off-campus residence last week, head coach Dave Doeren announced Monday.
Sophomore wide receiver Johnathan Alston, redshirt freshman linebacker Jerod Fernandez, freshman defensive tackle Justin Jones, redshirt freshman safety Josh Jones, redshirt freshman defensive end Pharoah McKever, sophomore wide receiver Jumichael Ramos and freshman corner Mike Stevens will sit out Saturday.
“These are good young men who made a mistake in not recognizing that this activity could’ve resulted in someone being injured,” Doeren said. “We’ve discussed this with them and they understand they’re being held responsible for their actions.”
Additionally, redshirt student-athletes Tyler Jones, Kalen McCain, Deyshawn Middleton, Terronne Prescod and Maurice Trowell have been placed on team probation.
“Our players admitted their mistake and we’ll help them learn from it,” Doeren said.
