2016	2014	2013
Austin Longi, WR - Second Team	Sam Ajala, WR - First Team	Sam Ajala, WR – First Team
	Tebucky Jones, Jr., WR - First Team	Tebucky Jones, Jr., WR – Second Team
	Brian Wetzel, WR - Second Team	Brian Wetzel, WR - Second Team

 
Mark Dupuis, a former member of the Bates University football staff, begins his fifth year at Fordham as the wide receivers coach.

Last year, Dupuis' charges combined to catch 163 passes for 2,290 yards and 26 touchdowns, led by sophomore Austin Longi, who caught 59 passes for 774 yards, both team highs, with six scores as he earned Second Team All-Patriot League honors.

The receiving corps helped the Fordham passing offense rank second in the Patriot League and 18th in the NCAA FCS, averaging 268.6 yards/game as the Rams led the League and ranked fourth in the nation in scoring (40.1 points per game).

In 2015, Dupuis led one of the youngest receiving groups in the nation, with four new starters, including three freshmen. Overall, four true freshmen wide outs (Corey Caddle, Austin Longi, Jonathan Lumley and Jordan Allen) combined to make 106 catches for 1,514 yards and 15 touchdowns. They helped the Fordham offense lead the Patriot League and rank ninth in the NCAA FCS in scoring, averaging 36.8 points per game, and lead the league and rank second in the NCAA FCS in passing efficiency (168.30). Fordham was also second in the league and 20th in the NCAA FCS in passing yards/game (272.3).

Over the past five years, the Fordham wide receiving corps has proved to be among the best in the NCAA FCS, with the 2014 unit featuring two All-Americans and three All-Patriot League picks. The 2014 Rams led the Patriot League in passing offense, total offense and scoring offense, while on the national level the Rams ranked fourth in passing offense (326.1 yards/game) in the NCAA FCS and ranked among the top ten in scoring offense (40.6 points/game – fifth), team passing efficiency (156.23 – third), and total offense (494.1 yards/game – seventh).

Individually, Brian Wetzel, who earned All-America and All-Patriot League accolades, graduated number two on the Fordham career receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdown lists, while Sam Ajala, an All-Patriot League pick, finished third on the Fordham career receiving yards list and fourth on the career receptions list.
For the second straight year, the Rams had three 1,000-yard receives in Wetzel, Ajala and Tebucky Jones, Jr., an All-American and All-Patriot League honoree.

In his first season at Fordham, Dupuis saw three receivers surpass the 1,000-yard plateau, led by Sam Ajala who set a school single season record with 1,646 yards and tied a school mark with 14 touchdown receptions. Ajala received consensus All-America honors, being named First Team All-America by Beyond Sports Network and College Sports Madness and Second Team by the Associated Press All-America and the Sports Network All-America. He was also named an ECAC All-Star and First Team All-Patriot League after leading the Patriot League and placing second in the NCAA FCS in total recovering yards and leading the league and ranking third in the nation in receiving yards/game.

Joining Ajala in the 1,000-yard club in 2013 were Tebucky Jones, Jr., and Brian Wetzel, with Wetzel matching Ajala with 14 touchdown catches. Both Jones and Wetzel received Second Team All-Patriot League accolades. The trio helped the Rams lead the Patriot League and rank third in the NCAA FCS in passing offense.

Prior to arriving at Rose Hill, Dupuis spent the 2012 season at Bates, helping the Bobcats to a 5-3 record.

A 2011 graduate of the University of Connecticut, where he majored in marketing, Dupuis assisted the UConn football program for five years, as a student manager and then as an intern assistant coach for the Husky offense. During his time in Storrs, UConn won Big East championships in 2007 and 2010, and went to the 2007 Meinecke Car Care Bowl, the 2008 International Bowl, the 2009 Papajohns.com Bowl and the 2010 Fiesta Bowl.

The Salem, New Hampshire, native was the captain of the 2006 Salem High School football team, where he played both quarterback and safety, and was a 2007 Scholar-Athlete Award recipient from the Joe Yukica New Hampshire Chapter of the National Football Foundation.