Joe Coles
Writer at Deseret News
Utah football beat writer for the Deseret News. Email: [email protected].
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1 week ago |
deseret.com | Joe Coles
As Utah begins another official visit recruiting weekend, including hosting five-star offensive lineman Felix Ojo , it secured a commitment from a three-star tight end in the 2026 class. On Friday afternoon, Bear Fisher announced his pledge to Utah, giving the Utes their seventh commitment this recruiting cycle. The 6-foot-5, 235-pound Fisher, from Queen Creek High in Arizona, had offers from Arizona, Cal, Iowa State, BYU, North Carolina and Utah State, among others.
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1 week ago |
deseret.com | Joe Coles
This article was first published in the Ute Insiders newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Wednesday night. Year 2 in the Big 12 doesn't get much easier for the Utah Utes. After a 5-7 campaign in an injury-riddled inaugural year in the new conference, Utah is trying to get back to its winning way - but the Utes won't have a whole lot of "gimmes" in 2025.
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1 week ago |
deseret.com | Joe Coles
It's been a productive past couple of weeks for Utah on the recruiting trail, and it continued Monday, when the Utes added another defensive player to their 2026 class. Three-star Texas safety Carter Stewart committed to Utah, becoming the fourth commitment on the defensive side of the ball. The 6-foot-1, 170-pound safety, who also runs track, notched 21 tackles and six pass deflections last year for Shadow Creek High in Pearland, Texas, according to his MaxPreps stats page.
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1 week ago |
deseret.com | Joe Coles
Phil Steele's annual college football preview is out, which means we are that much closer to the season beginning. In a little over three weeks, Big 12 media days will be held at The Star - the Dallas Cowboys' practice facility - in Frisco, Texas, on July 8 and 9. About three weeks after that, Utah will begin fall camp and preparations for its season opener against UCLA at the Rose Bowl on Aug. 30.
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2 weeks ago |
deseret.com | Joe Coles
This article was first published in the Ute Insiders newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Wednesday night. More often than not, you can count on Utah having a good-to-great defense with defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley at the helm. Last year's defense didn't reach the elite levels of years past - too many missed tackles and not enough takeaways - but was still good enough to keep the Utes in most games.
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Interesting note from @UtahMBB press release: Keanu Dawes is the first student-athlete in Utah Athletics history to sign a revenue share agreement. Utah will directly be paying him starting July 1. Football players will sign deals shortly. Welcome to the new era of college
