BERKELEY – Four Cal football student-athletes – Christopher Brown Jr., Braxten Croteau, Jake Curhan and Michael Saffell – have been selected to the 2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District® 8 Football Team, which recognizes the top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom.
Cal Football: Center Michael Saffell Named to Lindy s Preseason All-Pac-12 First Team
Christopher Brown Jr., Kekoa Crawford and Cameron Goode are 2nd-team picks
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Jun 1, 2021
Fifth-year senior center Michael Saffell is Cal’s lone representative on Lindy’s Sports’ preseason All-Pac-12 first team.
Saffell is identified simply as an offensive lineman on Lindy’s all-conference team, which has Oregon State’s Nathan Eldridge listed as the center.
Cal had no first-team selections on the recently released Athlon Sports’ preseason All-Pac-12 team. Saffell was a third-team pick by Athlon.
A 6-foot-2, 295-pounder from Huntington Beach, Saffell has played in 28 games for the Bears with 23 starts, including in all four of Cal’s games last fall during their abbreviated schedule.
Cal Football: The Bears Need a Healthy Christopher Brown Jr. in 2021
At his best, the big back has fueled a productive Golden Bear running game
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The 2020 football season was a lost year for Cal running back Christopher Brown Jr.
Injury limited him to playing in three of the Bears’ four games and to a total of just 29 rushing attempts. None of that helped as Cal went 1-3 in a season ravaged by side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2019 season is a much better measuring stick for Brown’s value to the Bears. And it’s a gauge that reveals him to be one of the most important players on the roster.
Cal Football: A Young Contingent Will Try to Replace `Best Player Brett Johnson
Versatile defensive lineman out for entire 2021 season after car accident.
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May 13, 2021
How big was the loss Cal football sustained when junior defensive lineman Brett Johnson broke his hip in a car accident last month?
“It’s a significant loss,” Cal coach Justin Wilcox said this week in the video below. “Brett’s an outstanding player, a really bright future . . . will still have a bright future. He’s arguably one of the best players on the team, if not
the best.”
the best.
That covers a lot of territory . . . Chase Garbers, Kuony Deng, Cameron Goode, Christopher Brown Jr., Elijah Hicks.
Cal Football: WR Monroe Young Grabs Two TDs in Bears Second Spring Scrimmage
Bears Played 120 Snaps, Including 60 With Live Tackling
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Mar 14, 2021
As Cal prepares to enter the final week of its spring football workouts, the Bears held another full pads scrimmage on Saturday, and one of the standouts was wide receiver Monroe Young.
Young, a redshirt junior from Las Cruces, New Mexico, caught two touchdown passes, covering 7 and 34 yards from Chase Garbers.
“It’s no surprise that he had a couple touchdowns and some snags today,” wide receivers coach Burl Toler III said. “He’s a hard worker. He does all the grunt work. Probably some plays you guys don’t recognize . . . the Oregon game last year, he five or six blocks, which he’s not mentioned in the stats for that.”