2026 Charlotte 49er Football 🏈

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Why do they not have our Louisiana game on here…they have TBA? I feel like it’s a bad look. How are they not on the same page or does this mean the game isn’t a lock yet?

My initial reaction was someone forgot to update the clip art of the new season. However, it’s also listed in the article about buying season tickets as a “a game to be announced later.” Weird for sure.

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Potential Roster Update!!! (I could be wrong or someone on here may have already announced this so I may have just missed it but I see it as potentially good news!!!)

@CarlP @Nineradvocate @ninerfan55 (can you 3 confirm?)

On the “Charlotte Football” instagram story/post they posted a funny video about what teammates you would want to sit next to on a plane. In this video I noticed WR Adam Hopkins IV, TE Gus McGee (I knew he was possibly returning), RB/KR/PR Henry Rutledge (have another season due to injury?), DB DeQuinder Williams (forgot about this local kid), Bronson Long (SHOCKED he didn’t enter the portal). Either way all of these players help each position room and make them stronger than what I thought.

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Excellent! Thanks. I had all but Rutledge on my list, but he was on my “might get another year” list. I will add him. Others on my “may get another year" list are Andrew Adair, Justin Olson, and Jonny King. Here’s my list of returning players, FWIW:

WR (6) - Eley, Hopkins IV, Hunter-Gibson, Hoffman, Hampton, Rivens

OL (9) - Silvia, O. Davis, Brinkley, Sikes-Rasby, Shirley, Bullerdick, Green, Kelly, Reed

TE (4) - McGee, Laskey, Rhoads, Jeffares

QB (3) - Harrell, Loftis, McNulty

RB (2) - Cobb, Rutledge

DE/Edge (6) - Burgess, Johnson, Simpson, K. Brown, Morton, Massey

DT (6) - Williams, Tifase, Doss, Solomon, Irving, T. Brown

LB (6) - Schmitz, Bowman, Willis, Startz, Wallace, Estes

CB (1) - Clinkscales,

NB/S (8) - Gill, Craig, D. WIlliams II, Womack, S. Franklin, Allen, St. Clair, Manley

Spec Teams (3) - Long, Kelly, Bui

Total - 54

I make no claims of accuracy. This number could be too big if some of the walkons aren’t returning, or if there are additional transfers out that I am unaware of. This number could be too small if additional players get another year, or if there are people who have withdrawn from the portal and returned to the team that I don’t know about.

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Winter conditioning is a time of year when great strides can be made towards winning games in the fall. After a disappointing season, some teams will not give full effort in conditioning, fearing more of the same. Other teams will get an attitude, determined not to let it happen again, and work their tails off.

This year, unlike last year, we haven’t heard even a peep about winter conditioning. Are the players getting stronger, and faster, and bigger? Are the new players and the old players blending into a team?

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How come we don’t land any young “local” QBs who have been elsewhere sitting behind QBs. I would rather get another young QB to have for depth instead of having 3 older QBs in loftis, Harrell, and Gonzales. White I guess is the future. Will the 3 other QBs I listed all be gone after this next season?

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Maybe he doesn’t fit the system. Who cares if they’re local.

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Yeah who cares that we have a backyard of good players and we get very few. Have we even offered Hough’s 2027 Royal? It’s sad when you can’t at least land 1 local player who is coming to us as a higher rated player

…he must not fit our complex QB system that we have.

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We’ve offered a ton of local guys

Yeah that makes it even worse that we have offered a ton and land very few

Offered a ton for 27 and beyond I meant.

Tad Hudson’s sister is married to Drake Maye

This is what I show for the class status of the six QBs, three upperclassmen, and three underclassmen. Gonzales has one year left. Officially, Harrell has one year left, but likely can get another year because of his injury last year. Loftis has two years. McNulty is a R-So, so he has three years left. White and Dawyot are true Freshmen.

I would guess they will try to recruit 1-2 Freshmen this year. I am aware of six offers to QBs, but there may be more. Two of them are to North Carolina quarterbacks:

Davin Davidson (Ohio) - 17 P4 offers, many G5

Charlie Foulke (Pennsylvannia) - 6 P4 offers

Tristan Sabb - (St. Frances, Baltimore) - offer from BC

JD Brown (Florida) - offer from BC

Myles McCallop (was Rolesville, NC, moved to Clinton, NC)

Bryson Gray, Raleigh - offer from UNC

In today’s world, probably 1-2 of the five QBs who could be back will enter the portal, so in this world, recruiting new players will be a non-stop obligation.

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2026 Spring Football Schedule

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