UMass Football Recruiting 2026--Will McNamara

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 Will McNamara, a 6-5 270 pound OL from Kent, CT has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video. 

McNamara has an FBS offer from New Mexico as well as a number of FCS schools. He could be part of the new Minuteman offense with Coach Harasymiak in amherst. 

UMass Football Recruiting 2026--Calix Lemp

 

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Calix Lemp, a 6-0 185 pound Athlete from Wadsworth, OH has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video. 

Third in the state of Ohio in 60 meters track. 

Lemp has twenty offers including Army and Air Force from the Service academies as well as Akron, Bowling Green, Kent State, Central Michigan and Buffalo from the MAC. Lemp could play WR or DB in college. He could get an excellent East Coast education and be part of the new UMass football program with coach Harasymiak.  

UMASS Football Recruiting 2026--Lance Dawson

 

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Lance Dawson, a 6-5 250 pound OL/DE from Avon, Ohio, has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video. 

 Will take an OV to Cincinnati.

Dawson has ten offers including Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan, Bowling Green, Kent State and Miami from the MAC. He has a Power Four offer from Cincinnati. He could be part of the coming Renaissance  of UMass football with coach Harasymiak in Amherst. 

UMass Football Recruiting 2026--David Moore

 

David Moore, a 5-11 180 pound Athlete from West Orange, NJ will take an official visit to UMass.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video. 

MaxPreps has stats. Averaged 9.8 yards/carry on offense.

Moore has fifteen offers including Toledo and Central Michigan from the MAC. Pitt and Duke have offered from the Power Four. He will also take an OV to Temple. Moore could be an active part in the rising UMass program. There is also lots of playing time available in Amherst. 

UMass Football News--June 5th, 2025

 The Minutemen Command has Episode #7 of the Flagship Podcast. Rene and Mike interview ESPN writer Dan Wetzel.

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Sports Illustrated has the G5 Daily covering the top teams in the Group-of-Five after Spring Ball. 

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Hustle Belt has a long interview with new UMass HC Joe Harasymiak. 

They also look at the QB situation for every MAC team. They predict Utah transfer Brandon Rose will win the UMass job.

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Draft Kings Sports Book has UMass with a 3.5 over-and-under season wins for 2025. This is kinda encouraging to Minuteman fans as Vegas thinks UMass will win between 3 and four games. Note that UMass has only won four games twice in our FBS career (2017 and 2018 Whipple). We've never won five.

Outside of those two 4-8 seasons with Whipple, the win total of Molnar, Bell and Brown was 17-106 or .160 winning percentage.. 

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Draft Kings also has UMass -1.5 favorite over Temple on August 30th.  A win over the Owls would be a really big boost to the 2025 season and place that four-win season ceiling in jeopardy. 

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UMass Football Recruiting 2026--Christian Alverez

 

Christian Alverez, a 6-4 285 pound OL from Woodcliff Lake, NJ recently took a visit to UMass.

The Minuteman Command has a post on Alverez's visit. 

Hudl.com has video. 

Alverez has offers from all three of the Service academies, Temple, Marshall and a number of FCS schools. He could get an excellent East Coast education and be part of the revived UMass program in Amherst. 

UMass Football Recruiting 2026--Kai Owens

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 Kai Owens, a 6-2 195 pound WR from Mundelein, IL has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here. 

Hudl.com has video. 

MaxPreps has stats. 

This article covers his visit to Wisconsin. 

Owens has FBS offers from Ball State, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Marshall and Miami (Ohio). He could get an excellent East Coast education and be part of resurgent UMass football in Amherst.