Fordham Football Report #7

Bronx, N.Y. – As we enter week two of Fordham football fall camp we continue our position-by-position look at the 2017 Rams as we check out the wide receivers and tight ends.
 
Fordham returns three of the top four pass catchers from 2016 (one of those being running back Chase Edmonds) and seven total players who caught at least one pass last fall.
 
Leading the returners is junior Austin Longi, a second team All-Patriot League selection in 2016, who hauled in 59 passes for 774 yards, both team-highs, and six scores. He was fifth in the Patriot League in receiving yards/game (70.4), receiving touchdowns and receptions/game (5.3).
 
He is joined by fellow junior Corey Caddle who caught 32 passes for 368 yards and four touchdowns last year, ranking third on the squad in all three categories.
 
Also back is junior tight end Isaiah Searight, a second team All-Patriot League selection in 2016. Last fall, he grabbed 13 passes for 181 yards and two scores.
 

Other experienced returning receivers for the Rams include juniors Jonathan Lumley, Jordan Allen, Andrew Prince, and Noah Nix. Last year, Lumley caught five passes for 86 yards before his season was cut short by injury, including hauling in three passes for 60 yards in the season opener at Navy. Allen saw action in nine games as a sophomore, recording five receptions for 135 yards and one score, including an 82-yard scoring strike in the win over Elizabeth City State.
 
Prince appeared in five games last year, catching one pass for five yards, while Nix saw his 2016 season limited by injury.
 
Other returning receivers include sophomores Joe Ferraro and Jonah Isaac.
 
Incoming freshmen who look to contribute this year include Hunter Harris, Hamze Elzayat, Brendan Donlon and Krishtjan Frrokaj. Harris is a graduate of Detroit Loyola High School where he was a 2016 Detroit Free Press All-State and 2016 First Team All-Detroit Catholic League selection, while Elzyat is a product of Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan, where he was named 2016 MLive First Team All-State and Detroit News First Team All-Metro. Frrokaj graduated from Norwalk High School in Norwalk, Connecticut last year where he moved from wide receiver to quarterback, compiling more than 3,400 passing yards and 29 touchdowns in his high school career. Donlon comes to Fordham from Middletown South High School in Middletown, N.J.
 
At tight end, senior James Orfini and junior Andrew Force return to back up Searight. Orfini appeared in all eleven games last year, both at tight end and on special teams, while Force was sidelined with an injury. Freshman Jack Lynch, a product of Berlin High School in Berlin, Connecticut, also figures in to the tight end rotation.