Donald Bowens, who led N.C. State with 598 receiving yards in 2007, is out for the season because of a hairline fracture of his spine, coach Tom O'Brien said Friday night.
Bowens tried practicing for the first few days of training camp, but the injury prevented him from playing after that. He underwent a series of medical tests and learned the results Thursday. A junior, Bowens made 41 catches last season and tied for the team lead with three touchdown catches.
Every day, two N.C. State brothers separated by half a continent talk football on the phone.
Former Wolfpack safety DaJuan Morgan is going through his first NFL preseason as a third-round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs. Little brother DeAndre Morgan is competing for a starting position at left cornerback for N.C. State.
"He tells me to go hard, and I tell him the same," DeAndre Morgan said.
The ACC’s date with history in Boston’s famed Fenway Park has been moved back a year because of a scheduling mistake.
After junior Harrison Beck and sophomore Justin Burke were eliminated from N.C. State's starting quarterback race, fans sent e-mails asking why.
The short answer is that coach Tom O’Brien didn’t go into detail about their shortcomings.
Point guard Marques Johnson has decided to transfer from N.C. State the school announced Wednesday.
“Marques felt it would be in his best interest to take advantage of an opportunity somewhere else,” coach Sidney Lowe said in a statement.
Late last season, safety seemed to be a position of strength for N.C. State's future.
Junior DaJuan Morgan was well on his way to a second-team All-ACC selection. Redshirt freshman Javon Walker emerged after the midseason open date as one of the most productive players on defense.
How quickly things changed.
N.C. State guard Marques Johnson is leaving the Wolfpack basketball program for Georgia State, according to The Wolfpacker (subscription required).
Johnson, a guard, averaged 2.0 points and 1.2 assists per game in less than 15 minutes per game. A top-100 recruit out of high school, Johnson played only half of the season for the Wolfpack after transferring from Tennessee.
He would have been a junior for State this season. He will have to sit out a full season, or obtain a waiver from the NCAA, to compete immediately for the Panthers.
Johnson fell behind Farnold Degand and Javy Gonzalez in N.C. State's point-guard rotation last season and would have been hard-pressed to find minutes in the 2008-09 season.
RALEIGH — Just three candidates remain for the starting quarterback job at N.C. State, which has seen two key players undergo surgeries during training camp, coach Tom O’Brien said Tuesday.
Senior Daniel Evans, redshirt freshman Russell Wilson and freshman Mike Glennon remain in the competition at quarterback. Junior Harrison Beck and sophomore Justin Burke, who did not participate in Sunday’s scrimmage, are out of the race.
