BCSP Notes the Starting Lineup the Next Season
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2 0 2 0 B C S P N F L R E P O R T FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8 - 14, 2020 27 black college products on opening day NFL rosters BLACK COLLEGE PLAYERS ON Overall numbers down by three; BLACK COLLEGE PLAYERS 2020 OPENING DAY NFL ROSTERS No HBCU player with a decade of experience; IN THE NFL BY SCHOOL Javon Hargrave, Trenton Cannon in new homes ™ COLLEGE / NAME NFL TEAM AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE (AFC - 13) LUT WILLIAMS TEAM / NO. / NAME POS YRS. COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA A&T (4) BALTIMORE (2) BCSP Editor Tarik Cohen Chicago 38 Terrell Bonds DB 1 Tennessee State Two longtime NFL veterans from the HBCU ranks are not Darryl Johnson Jr. Buffalo 41 Anthony Levine Sr. DB 9 Tennessee State on NFL opening day rosters as the league kicks off the 2020 Tony McRae Detroit BUFFALO (1) season this Thursday night when the Super Bowl champion Brandon Parker Las Vegas Arizona Cardinals Photo 92 Darryl Johnson Jr. DE 2 North Carolina A&T Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans. CINCINNATI (0) SOUTH CAROLINA STATE (4) NOT FINISHED YET?: Defensive back Domi- CLEVELAND (3) Alex Brown Kansas City Howard product and nique Rodgers-Cromartie 7 Jamie Gillan P 2 Arkansas-Pine Bluff Antonio Hamilton Kansas City 14-year veteran safety out of Tennessee State and Antoine Bethea hoping 12 KhaDarel Hodge WR 3 Prairie View A&M Javon Hargrave Philadelphia HERE WE 41 Montreal Meander (PS) LB 1 Grambling State safety Antoine Bethea from for another opportunity as Darius Leonard Indianapolis DENVER (0) Howard, the two longest GO, AGAIN 2020 NFL season begins. TENNESSEE STATE (4) HOUSTON (1) tenured players in the league Terrell Bonds Baltimore 71 Tytus Howard OT 2 Alabama State with HBCU roots, are said to HBCU NUMBERS DOWN IN NFL; JACKSON STATE FIRES Anthony Levine Sr. Baltimore INDIANAPOLIS (2) be awaiting calls to continue NEW VET LEADERS: (L.) Anthony 53 Darius Leonard LB 3 South Carolina State FOOTBALL COACH; HBCU LEGENDS BROCK, GAINES PASS their careers. Levine Sr. (Tenn. State, Baltimore) Chris Rowland Atlanta 68 Grover Stewart DT 4 Albany State and (r.) Terron Armstead (UAPB, Lachavious Simmons Chicago JACKSONVILLE (1) With DRC and Bethea New Orleans) are now the most ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF (2) 99 Rodney Gunter (RR) DT 6 Delaware State currently out of the league, senior HBCU products on opening KANSAS CITY (2) Terron Armstead New Orleans Baltimore defensive back and day NFL rosters. UNDER THE BANNER 30 Alex Brown (IR) DB 2 South Carolina State special teams ace Anthony Jamie Gillan Cleveland 20 Antonio Hamilton DB 5 South Carolina State Levine Sr., entering his ninth NFL season out of Tennessee State, GRAMBLING STATE (2) WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS LAS VEGAS (1) Montreal Meander Cleveland 75 Brandon Parker OT 3 North Carolina A&T takes over as the most senior HBCU product. Behind Levine Trent Scott Carolina LOS ANGELES CHARGERS (0) is Arkansas-Pine Bluff product Terron Armstead, an all-pro HBCU LEGEND SMOKEY GAINES PASSES: (2) MIAMI (0) offensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints, now entering his PRAIRIE VIEW A&M David "Smokey" Gaines, a Detroit native and NEW ENGLAND (0) eighth NFL season. Quinton Bell Tampa Bay colorful former LeMoyne-Owen NEW YORK JETS (0) DRC, taken 16th overall in the first round of the 2008 NFL KhaDarel Hodge Cleveland basketball star who later returned to PITTSBURGH (0) Draft by the Arizona Cardinals, spent last season with Washington ALABAMA A&M (1) his alma mater as head coach, passed TENNESSEE (0) before being placed on injured reserve after tearing ligaments in Anthony Lanier II LA Chargers NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE (NFC - 14) Saturday. Gaines was 80. ALABAMA STATE (1) ARIZONA (1) his ankle. In his 12 years in the league, the two-time Pro Bowler Gaines averaged over 30 points per 66 Joshua Miles OT 2 Morgan State has played for Arizona (3 years), Philadelphia, (2), Denver (1), Tytus Howard Houston game playing for legendary head coach ATLANTA (1) the NY Giants (4), Oakland (1) and Washington (1). ALBANY STATE (1) Jerry Johnson at LeMoyne-Owen and 14 Chris Rowland (PS) WR/KR R Tennessee State Bethea, a three-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl XLI Grover Stewart Indianapolis CAROLINA (2) left as the program's all-time leading champion with Indianapolis, was chosen by the Colts in the sixth DELAWARE STATE (1) 36 Trenton Cannon RB 3 Virginia State round of the 2006 NFL Draft. His NFL spans 14 seasons with Rodney Gunter Jacksonville Gaines scorer and with his number retired. ?? Trent Scott OT 3 Grambling State three other teams – eight as the starting safety for Indy before MORGAN STATE (1) After his collegiate career he was CHICAGO (2) spending three years with San Francisco, two with Arizona and Joshua Miles Arizona drafted in the sixth round of the NBA Draft by his home- 29 Tarik Cohen RB 4 North Carolina A&T 73 Lachavious Simmons (PS) OT R Tennessee State last season with the New York Giants. NORFOLK STATE (1) town Detroit Pistons. He chose instead to spend four years DALLAS (0) This year marks the first time since the BCSP began pub- Bobby Price Detroit playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and also had a short DETROIT (2) lishing in 1994 that NFL play will begin with no HBCU product NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL (1) stint with the ABA's Kentucky Colonels. 34 Tony McRae DB 4 North Carolina A&T in the league with at least a decade of playing experience. Ryan Smith Tampa Bay 47 Bobby Price (PS) S R Norfolk State After a short stint as a high school coach in Detroit, Also on the sidelines is a veteran former Delaware State GREEN BAY (0) SOUTHERN (1) Gaines became an assistant to head coach Dick Vitale at LOS ANGELES RAMS (0) standout Rodney Gunter who would have been entering his Danny Johnson Washington Detroit Mercy from 1973-77 and took over as head coach MINNESOTA (0) sixth season. He was signed by Jacksonville after five years in VIRGINIA STATE (1) there when Vitale left to become head coach of the Pistons. NEW ORLEANS (2) Arizona but was recently diagnosed with a heart ailment that may Trenton Cannon Carolina He led Detroit Mercy to a 47-10 record in two years before 72 Terron Armstead OT 8 Arkansas-Pine Bluff end his playing career. He is on the Jags' Reserve/Retired list. 57 Anthony Lanier (IR) DE 3 Alabama A&M leaving to become head coach at San Diego State. He led The only HBCU player taken in this year's draft, Tennes- NEW YORK GIANTS (0) see State offensive tackle Lachavious Simmons plucked by the Aztecs from 1979 to 1987 compiling a record of 112-117 PHILADELPHIA (1) Chicago in the seventh and last round, was named this week to SCHOOLS WITH including a trip to the NCAA Tournament. He was the first 93 Javon Hargrave DT 5 South Carolina State the Bears' practice squad. Simmons's TSU teammate, undrafted MOST PLAYERS IN NFL African American to lead a Div. I program in California SAN FRANCISCO (0) SEATTLE (0) rookie Chris Rowland, a wide receiver who led HBCU players and was the WAC Coach of the Year in 1985. North Carolina A&T TAMPA BAY (2) in receptions and receiving yardage, earned a spot on Atlanta's South Carolina State, Among the basketball players he coached at SDSU 57 Quinton Bell LB 1 Prairie View A&M practice squad. Undrafted rookie safety Bobby Price out of Tennessee State 4 were future Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and future 29 Ryan Smith DB 5 North Carolina Central Norfolk State made the practice squad for the Detroit Lions as NBA star Michael Cage. WASHINGTON (1) did Grambling linebacker Montreal Meander with Cleveland. Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 41 Danny Johnson DB 3 Southern He eventually returned to his alma mater in 2005 as the Among players on new teams is Javon Hargrave out of Grambling State, successor to Johnson and as athletics director until 2008. South Carolina State who was signed by Philadelphia after Prairie View A&M 2 Johnson led LOC for 46 years and is now 102 years old. playing four years in Pittsburgh. Former Virginia State run- Gaines gave current North Carolina A&T head coach Wil TOTAL 27 (-3) BY TEAM ning back Trenton Cannon was released by the NY Jets and Jones his first college assistant's position at LOC. picked up by the Carolina Panthers, as was former Gramblng BY POSITION AFC 13 (-6) Cleveland 3 and LA Chargers' offensive lineman Trent Scott. Tony McRae NFC 14 (+3) Baltimore, Indianapolis DB (CB or S, -1) 7 HALL OF FAMER LOU BROCK PASSES: from North Carolina A&T left Cincinnati after three seasons Kansas City, Carolina, to sign with Detroit. South Carolina State product Antonio DL (3DT & 2DE, -1) 6 Southern University product Lou Brock, who went BY HBCU Chicago, Detroit, Hamilton is now in Kansas City, his third NFL team. OL (6T or 0G, +1) 6 on to become Major League Base- CONFERENCE New Orleans, Tampa Bay 2 Defensive backs (7) continue to be the position most manned REC (0TE or 2WR, -2) 2 ball's premier leadoff man and base MEAC 12 (-2) by HBCU products with defensive (6) and offensive line (6) LB (+1) 3 stealer and was later selected to the SWAC 9 (-3) BY YEARS OF next. The MEAC (12) leads the SWAC (9) with the most play- NFL EXPERIENCE RB (FB or 2RB, -4) 2 Hall of Fame died Sunday.