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 77 days to go, let's meet UCF offensive lineman Kasiyah Charlton:

Who is Kasiyah Charlton?
What did he do last season?
What role is he going to have in 2026?

1. Who is Kasiyah Charlton?

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— UCF Football (@UCF_Football) December 3, 2025

Position: Offensive Lineman

Class: Freshman

Height/Weight: 6-foot-7 / 315 pounds

Hometown: Brunswick, Georgia

High School: Brunswick High School

Charlton has one of the largest frames on the entire Knights roster. At 6-foot-7, he is just two inches shorter than the team's tallest player, offensive lineman Dominick Campbell, and at 315 pounds, he is tied for the second-heaviest player on the UCF offensive line and the fourth-heaviest on the entire roster.

2. What did he do last season?

Charlton helped his Brunswick High School team to a regional championship and a 9-3 overall record last season. However, his season finished on a sour note thanks to participating in an on-field brawl during a playoff game against Gainesville High School that ended up going viral on social media.

Charlton apologized and took responsibility for his role in the brawl in a post to his Instagram story.

"To my community, coaches, and teammates, I apologize for the senseless thing I did," Charlton wrote. "I take full responsibility for my actions and to the BHS staff and coaches I want to sincerely apologize for shining a bad light on yall thank you BHA for the last 4 years they been the best years of my life #77 out."

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

Despite how Charlton's high school career ended, coach Scott Frost said in December that he did feel good about who Charlton was as a person and a player in the long term. Senior Preston Cushman even said months later on April 3 that Charlton was "gonna be something special."

Meanwhile, offensive line coach AJ Blazek said Charlton still had a lot to learn and was "behind in speed of the game," but he "wants it."

"He's probably behind in, like, Football IQ; high school to college is such a big jump; but he probably comes in to see me and meet me, and he wants to talk and watch film more than anybody else," Blazek said.

Charlton's status as a true freshman does not bode well for his chances of seeing much playing time this season, especially if he stays behind on "speed of the game," as Blazek put it. However, with the amount of work he has been putting in to make the jump from high school to college and the relationships and reputation he has been building with Blazek and Cushman, Charlton getting some chances to see the field in 2026 might not be completely out of the question.

Catch up on the rest of the list below:


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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