Jay Drew

Salt Lake City

Part of the BYU sports coverage team for the Deseret News. Email is [email protected]. Website is https://t.co/OR8XJCynu1

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Articles

Cougars vowing to get the football to tight ends more in 2025 season

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Drew

With some considerable help from the defense and special teams, BYU’s offense was able to help the Cougars go 11-2 last year, tie for first place in the Big 12’s regular season, and dominate Colorado in the Alamo Bowl. When the dust had settled, offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick’s group finished the season ranked 59th in total offense, averaging a respectable 392.3 yards per game.
5 Cougars who boosted their stock in 2025 spring camp

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Drew

A lot of tough conversations have taken place in the BYU football offices at the Student Athlete Building the past three weeks, as coaches have started the unpleasant process of narrowing the roster to 105 players before the 2025 season. Already, more than a dozen guys have entered the transfer portal since spring camp ended at the end of March, most of them having been told that there’s no room for them in the program any longer.
BYU's Jakob Robinson showed versatility and speed during the pre-draft process to make himself a fringe candidate to be selected on Saturday

2 weeks ago | deseret.com | Jay Drew

The numbers everyone was talking about after Jakob Robinson ran the 40-yard dash at the Big 12 Pro Days last month in Frisco, Texas, were 4.39 - the former BYU cornerback's unofficial time in that drill. However, it was another number that Robinson was just as proud to see posted: 181. That's what the former Orem High and Utah State player weighed in at, after playing the 2024 season under 170 lbs. "I felt really good about my Pro Day performance, actually," Robinson said last week.
Cornerback Jakob Robinson just wants a chance to show what he can do in the NFL

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jay Drew

The numbers everyone was talking about after Jakob Robinson ran the 40-yard dash at the Big 12 Pro Days last month in Frisco, Texas, were 4.39 — the former BYU cornerback’s unofficial time in that drill. However, it was another number that Robinson was just as proud to see posted: 181. AdvertisementThat’s what the former Orem High and Utah State player weighed in at, after playing the 2024 season under 170 lbs. “I felt really good about my Pro Day performance, actually,” Robinson said last week.
Why former pro Rob Daniel returned to BYU to get his degree

2 weeks ago | deseret.com | Jay Drew

When Robertson Daniel left the BYU football program shortly after the 2014 season and started preparing for the NFL draft just a few credits short of getting his bachelor's degree, it never occurred to the two-year starting cornerback that one day he would want to return to Provo.
BYU defensive end Tyler Batty is trying to become the first Cougar defender to get picked in the NFL draft since Chris Wilcox in 2021

3 weeks ago | deseret.com | Jay Drew

Read any of the dozens of 2025 NFL draft previews, and it quickly becomes apparent that the annual player selection meeting taking place in Green Bay, Wisconsin, won't be short on outstanding defensive ends. Edge rushers from big-time programs such as Penn State's Abdul Carter and Georgia's Mykel Williams comprise one of the deepest positions in this year's draft, which begins Thursday and runs through Saturday.
Versatility, size and athleticism move BYU's Caleb Etienne up NFL draft boards

3 weeks ago | deseret.com | Jay Drew

Offensive lineman Caleb Etienne continues to rewrite the script- a mantra he adopted following a subpar first season at BYU - and alter perceptions that followed him to Provo when he transferred from Oklahoma State in 2023. Now the massive left tackle who checked in at 6-foot-7 and 329 pounds at last month's Big 12 Pro Days in Frisco, Texas, wants to follow another script that his predecessors at BYU have written the past three seasons.
BYU is sitting on the NCAA Tournament bubble and can't afford to lose to a Utah team with an RPI in the 100s

4 weeks ago | deseret.com | Jay Drew

Whenever BYU and Utah get together to compete in anything, emotions run high and the contests are ultra-important to both sides. That's obviously how this weekend's softball series - the first-ever Big 12 softball games between the rivals - at BYU's Gail Miller Field in Provo are being viewed, but the Cougars have a little more at stake Thursday, Friday and Saturday than the Utes do.
a Big 12 football championship

1 month ago | deseret.com | Jay Drew

Calling the current group of BYU linebackers the best in school history is probably a stretch, considering the Cougars have produced the likes of NFL standouts Kyle Van Noy, Fred Warner, Sione Takitaki and Rob Morris. Suffice it to say, however, that senior Jack Kelly and juniors Harrison Taggart and Isaiah Glasker are probably the best trio in the Kalani Sitake era, which began in 2016.
Missing a 5-foot putt on No. 16 and bogeying No. 17, Utah's Tony Finau misses the cut by two shots at the Masters on Friday

1 month ago | deseret.com | Jay Drew

Regardless of what happens the rest of the year and beyond in his performances in golf's majors, Utah's Tony Finau will likely never forget what happened on the No. 16 green Friday at the Masters. Sitting at 3-over par in the tournament and needing to make a 5-footer for birdie on that Par 3 hole after almost holing out his tee shot, Finau missed the tricky little putt and had to settle for a par.