Meet The 2026 UCF Knights: Countdown To Kickoff

Welcome to UCF Knights on SI's countdown to kickoff!

In this series, we are going to introduce you to every single player on the 2026 UCF football roster so that you can know what to expect from them or even pinpoint the ones you want to follow throughout the coming season. We are going to go through the Knights' roster in reverse jersey-number order, with the day each player's entry is published corresponding to the number of days remaining until UCF's season-opener on Sep. 3 at 7 p.m. against Bethune-Cookman.

So, with 41 days to go, let's meet UCF EDGE Bruno Dall:

Who is Bruno Dall?
What did he do last season?
What role is he going to have in 2026?

1. Who is Bruno Dall?

Welcome to UCF, @040Bruno ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/IasQUGxSOW
— UCF Football (@UCF_Football) January 9, 2026

Position: EDGE

Class: Redshirt Junior

Height/Weight: 6-foot-7 / 260 pounds

Hometown: Hamburg, Germany

High School: St. Stanislaus College (Mississippi)

Growing up in Hamburg, Germany's second-largest city, Bruno Dall developed his skills on the gridiron with the Hamburg Huskies Football Academy. With the help of the Gridiron Imports Foundation, a non-profit co-founded by Bjöern Werner, a German native and former NFL defensive end who was selected in the first round of the 2013 draft, and Chris Adamson, an entrepreneur and former Dartmouth football player, Dall was placed at Saint Stanislaus College in Mississippi.

Dall spent just one season playing high school football, only arriving in the United States in the summer of 2022, according to his UCF Athletics profile page. During that season, he recorded 81 tackles, 38 of which were solo, 16 tackles for loss, five sacks, five passes defended and four fumble recoveries, according to MaxPreps, which helped him earn an MHSAA Class 3A All-State First Team honor.

Akron was the second of five Division I offers that came Dall's way, according to a Twitter post reposted by Dall in 2022. That ended up being the offer he accepted. He spent his first three seasons of college football with the Zips, redshirting his true freshman season before playing in 11 games in 2024.

2. What did he do last season?

Dall was named to the All-MAC Third Team after recording 44 tackles, 18 of which were solo, 8.5 tackles for loss, four sacks, a forced fumble, six pass breakups and an interception for Akron in 2025.

3. What role is he going to have in 2026?

Despite an undisclosed injury affecting his spring practice, Dall is one of the contenders for a starting role in the EDGE room following the departures of Malachi Lawrence and Nyjalik Kelly for the NFL. Not only is he the tallest player in the room at 6-foot-7, but when compared to other contenders like Isaiah Nixon, Sincere Edwards and Ken Talley, he is the only one who has started a college football game before 2026.

Following an April 27 practice session, EDGE coach Mike Dawson remarked that not only was Dall "gigantic," but he was also "highly intelligent," and called him "a sponge."

"I just look forward to him getting into a spot where he can just worry about playing football," Dawson said. "He's going to be a good addition to the group, and he's a great guy to have in the room."

Catch up on the rest of the list below:

No. 13 Caleb Rollerson

No. 14 Alonza Barnett III and Kahmel Johnson

No. 15 Will Stone and Preston Hall


No. 16 Dante Carr and TJ Branch	No. 17 Jailen Duffie	No. 18 Caleb Flagg and Caden Piening	No. 19 Rashad Henry	No. 20 Lewis Carter and Kaj Baker
No. 21 Ty Bartrum	No. 22 Amarion Queen	No. 23 Jordan Nunuha and Jayden Burnett	No. 24 Tackett Curtis and Arthur Lewis IV	No. 25 Rukeem Stroud
No. 26 Duke Watson and Elijah Keys	No. 27 Nicholas Antoine	No. 28 Matt Irwin	No. 29 Tyce Porcher	No. 30 Otis Hardy
No. 31 Noah McGough	No. 32 Matthew Occhipinti	No. 33 Phil Picciotti	No. 34 Jahleel Culbreath	No. 35 Agyeman Addae
No. 36 Dylan Bennett	No. 37 Rocklyn Kelley	No. 38 Jayden Jennings	No. 39 Andrea Parisi	No. 41 Bruno Dall
No. 42 Artavius Jones and Chance Nixon	No. 43 Cole Kozlowski	No. 44 Kyle Hicks	No. 45 Quentin Hatch	No. 47 Arthur Kingdom and Sam Powell
No. 49 Atticus Bertrams and Donnell Johnson III	No. 53 LaParka Langston	No. 54 Cooper Terpstra and Trenton Turner	No. 55 Jacob Maiava and Noah Mercer	No. 56 Patrick Ryan
No. 57 Camp Lott	No. 58 Connor Meadows	No. 61 Owen Spell	No. 66 Brady Wayburn	No. 67 Noah Senka
No. 68 Ethan Higgins	No. 70 RaiShaun McHaney	No. 71 Amahn Williams	No. 72 Dominick Campbell	No. 73 Henry Tabansi
No. 74 Matthew Prigmore	No. 75 Tyler Gibson	No. 76 Justin Royes	No. 77 Kasiyah Charlton	No. 78 Preston Cushman
No. 79 Daniel Marcellinus	No. 80 Elijah Hardy	No. 81 Zack Palmer	No. 82 Jordyn Bridgewater	No. 83 Dylan Burk
No. 84 Thomas Wadsworth	No. 85 Carson Hinshaw	No. 86 Chase Hinshaw	No. 87 Brooks Hall	No. 88 Grayson Brousseau
No. 90 Mujahid Jefferson	No. 91 Donteye Drew	No. 92 Jeffson Lafontant	No. 93 Brad Gurley	No. 94 L A Jesse Harrold
No. 95 RJ Jackson Jr.	No. 96 Anthony Coaxum	No. 97 Josh Schell and Mason Denaberg	No. 98 Alhassan Iddrissu	No. 99 Thomas Collins

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