Thursday, June 4, 2009

Deacon Football Roster Updated

The 2009 Demon Deacon football roster has been updated on WakeForestSports.com. On the new roster, each of the incoming freshmen have jersey numbers and a handful of veterans have switched their digits. As it's always interesting to see who chose new numbers, below is a look at all of the significant changes for '09.

Player, Old # - New #
Josh Bush, 25 -4 (Takes over D.J. Boldin's old number)
Joey Ehrmann, 50-40 (RS freshman LB goes down 10 digits)
Turner Faulk, 32-10 (Walk-on QB dumps old-school 32 for smaller digits)
Chris Givens, 82-2 (Big play-making shoes to fill in Alphonso Smith's old #2)
Kyle Jarrett, 40-43 (Takes over Stanley Arnoux's old number)
Junior Petit-Jean, 37-10 (Safety moves down to take Kevin Patterson's old number)
Shane Popham, 14-37 (Moves into #37 as incoming QB Brendan Cross will share #14 with DB C.J. Washington)
Cyhl Quarles, 28-5 (Continuing trend with Deacon DBs to select small numbers)
Kevin Smith, 91-34 (Dumps traditional DE #91 for Antonio Wilson's old digits)
Jordan Williams, 7-9 (Third jersey number in as many seasons for Jordan...wore #82 as a freshman)
Michael Williams, 24-7 (Like Quarles, goes for a single digit)