Syracuse Football Names Captains For 2023 Season
Syracuse football announced its team captains for the 2023 season on Monday. They included six players in total and were from all three phases of the game. The captains, as voted on by the players, are quarterback Garrett Shrader, wide receiver Damien Alford, linebacker Marlowe Wax, cornerback Isaiah Johnson, safety Justin Barron and kicker Brady Denaburg.
The Orange opens up the 2023 campaign on Saturday in the JMA Wireless Dome. The opponent is FCS Colgate and the game kicks off at 4:00 p.m. Eastern.
Syracuse is coming off of a 7-6 2022 season in which the Orange started 6-0 and was ranked in the top 15 in the country. After holding a double digit halftime lead at Clemson in game seven, things unraveled. Syracuse lost to the Tigers and then four more in a row before ending the regular season with a win at Boston College.
The offseason has been filled with change as both coordinators, Robert Anae (NC State) and Tony White (Nebraska) took jobs elsewhere. Syracuse also lost a pair of defensive starters to the transfer portal in Duce Chestnut (LSU) and Ja'Had Carter (Ohio State). Other starters, such as Sean Tucker, Matthew Bergeron, Garrett Williams, Mikel Jones and others departed for the NFL.
Syracuse replaced the coordinators with long-time 3-3-5 Godfather Rocky Long and Jason Beck, who was the quarterbacks coach in 2022. In addition, the Orange added several players at key positions through the portal.
Now, Syracuse is looking to get to back to back bowl games for the first time in a decade and have back to back winning regular seasons for the first time in over 20 years.
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