Cincinnati Team Leaders and Depth Chart

The West Virginia Mountaineers (6-4, 4-3) host the Cincinnati Bearcats (3-7, 1-6) Saturday afternoon with kickoff set for 2:30 and streaming on ESPN+.

Emory Jones leads a passing attack ranked 11th in the Big 12 Conference. The senior grad transfer spent four seasons at Florida before transferring to Arizona State for a season, then to Cincinnati last December. He’s thrown for 1,949 yards, 15 touchdowns and 10 interceptions this season while ranking second on the team in rushing with 455 yards and three touchdowns.

Junior Corey Kiner is seventh in the league in rushing, averaging 88.5 yards per game with five rushing touchdowns on the season.

The receiving corps is led by a pair of seniors in Xzavier Henderson and Braden Smith. Henderson is sixth in the league in receiving yards (643) and seventh in receptions (48). Smith has 38 receptions for 538 yards and a team-leading four touchdowns.

Senior safety Dashawn Pace has tallied team-highs 64 tackles and 10 tackles for a loss. Senior linebacker Daniel Grzesiak leads the team with sacks with 3.5 and junior safety Byron Threats has a team-leading two interceptions.

OFFENSE

LT 75 John Williams 6-5 310 R-Jr.

74 Phillip Wilder 6-5 305 R-Jr.

LG 54 Dartanyan Tinsley 6-5 315 Sr.

77 Jonathan Harder 6-5 320 R-Fr.

C 53 Gavin Gerhardt 6-4 305 R-Jr.

58 Trevor Radosevich 6-4 310 R-Sr.*

RG 67 Luke Kandra 6-4 320 R-Jr.

69 Cam Jones 6-8 330 R-Sr.

RT 56 Deondre Buford 6-3 315 R-Jr

79 Ethan Green 6-7 305 R-Fr.

TE 88 Payten Singletary 6-4 235 R-Jr.

-OR- 7 Chamon Metayer 6-5 248 R-So.

34 Caleb Schmitz 6-3 240 R-So.

82 Michael McCalmont 6-3 240 R-So.

WR 2 Dee Wiggins 6-3 195 R-Sr.*

3 Evan Prater 6-4 208 R-Jr.

80 Chris Scott 6-2 205 R-Jr.

WR 0 Braden Smith 5-10 185 R-Sr.*

9 Aaron Turner 5-7 185 Jr.

14 Barry Jackson Jr. 5-11 195 Fr.

WR 8 Xzavier Henderson 6-3 200 Sr.

11 Donovan Ollie 6-3 212 R-Sr.

84 Sterling Berkhalter 6-4 200 Jr.

QB 5 Emory Jones 6-3 212 R-Sr.*

16 Brady Lichtenberg 6-1 208 R-So.

12 Brady Drogosh 6-4 215 Fr.

RB 21 Corey Kiner 5-9 215 Jr.

26 Myles Montgomery 5-11 205 R-So.

-OR- 22 Ryan Montgomery 5-10 205 Sr.*

42 Stephan Byrd 6-0 215 R-Fr.

25 Shaun Thomas 6-0 205 R-So.

DEFENSE

DE 0 Jowon Briggs 6-2 297 Sr.*

4 Malik Vann 6-3 268 R-Sr.*

57 Ryan Mullaney 6-2 250 R-Sr.

NT 2 Dontay Corleone 6-2 318 R-So.

90 Jalen Hunt 6-4 315 R-Sr.

92 Derrick Shepard Jr. 6-3 305 R-Fr.

DE 97 Eric Phillips 6-3 260 R-Sr.

99 Rob Jackson 6-5 275 R-So.

95 Justin Wodtly 6-3 275 R-Jr.

DOG/OLB 9 Daniel Grzesiak 6-1 250 R-Sr.*

44 Jah-Mal Williams 6-4 238 R-So.

19 Tyler Gillison 6-4 242 R-Fr.

LB 6 Dorian Jones 6-0 230 Sr.

22 Jonathan Thompson 6-2 230 R-Fr.

32 James Camden 6-1 228 R-Jr.

LB 49 Jack Dingle 6-4 238 R-So.

42 Dion Hunter 6-2 235 R-Jr.

23 Daved Jones Jr. 6-1 228 R-Jr.

STAR 3 Deshawn Pace 6-2 212 Sr.

27 Ken Willis 5-11 180 R-Fr.

BCB 1 Jordan Young 6-0 195 R-So.

14 Rayquan Adkins 5-11 185 Fr.

24 Todd Bumphis 6-0 198 R-Jr.

FS 10 Bryon Threats 5-10 195 Jr.

46 Antwan Peek Jr. 6-2 205 R-Fr.

8 Isiah Cox 6-2 200 R-So.

20 Oliver Bridges 6-2 205 R-Fr.

SS 15 Taj Ward 6-0 195 R-Sr.*

5 D.J. Taylor 5-10 192 R-Jr.

16 Jabril White 5-10 193 Jr.

FCB 21 Kalen Carroll 6-1 185 R-Fr.

12 Justin Harris 6-0 195 R-Sr.

SPECIAL TEAMS

LS 96 Cayson Pfeiffer 6-0 220 R-Sr.*

85 Triston O’Brien 6-3 225 R-So.

H 39 Bryce Burton 5-10 200 R-Sr.

K 33 Carter Brown 6-0 205 So.

47 Rory Bell 5-10 185 R-Jr

KO 63 Nathan Hawks 6-0 204 Jr.

47 Rory Bell 5-10 185 R-Jr

39 Bryce Burton 5-10 200 R-Sr.

P 31 Mason Fletcher 6-7 215 Jr.

35 Brady Young 6-3 215 R-So.

PR 0 Braden Smith 5-10 185 R-Sr.*

-OR- 22 Ryan Montgomery 5-10 205 Sr.*

KR 8 Xzavier Henderson 6-3 200 Sr.

0 Braden Smith 5-10 185 R-Sr.*

22 Ryan Montgomery 5-10 205 Sr.*

5 D.J. Taylor 5-10 192 R-Jr

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