Byu Football Empey, Byu Football Releases Depth Chart Against Houston

Hoge hadnt played since the navy game because he contracted covid 19 and then pneumonia while saleapaga has been out since last season with an undisclosed injury.

Byu vs navy game highlights. Mike also played offensive line at byu 1987 91 93 was a team captain as a senior and coached te and ol at byu. Thats especially true because three of those five losses were by a point each and a fourth loss came two years ago when then freshman quarterback zach wilson was. While empey was out byu did get back a couple of the other linemen who have started games in the past most notably senior guardcenter tristen hoge and junior guard keanu saleapaga.

By robby mccombs atrtmccombs may 29 2020 259pm pdt. Is byus early season football dominance real puffed up by a weak schedule or both. Having coached against byu when he was on rival utahs staff from 2005 to 2014 sitake knew the cougars front line players were generally pretty good.

Parents are stephanie and mike empey. Empey who was a freshman all america selection in 2018 and a rimington trophy watch list honoree in 2019 started byus first two games this season he has started 28 games overall at byu and has helped the cougars average more than 600 yards of offense per game. Prepped at american fork high school under aaron behm.

Parents are douglas and linda empeyrecruited by utah utah state oregon state arizona state washington state utep wyoming and californiaserved a mission san jose california from 1988 90 in the same mission with teammates elia faupula and nathan hallmarried stephanie wright in may 1991three time all wac scholar athletemajoring in sports medicine. James empey 23 is a preseason all america candidate entering his junior year as a three year starting center on byus offensive line. Byu football center james empey named most underrated center by pro football focus empey is really good folks.

Served lds mission to lisbon portugal. Not long after he succeeded bronco mendenhall as byus head football coach a few days before christmas in 2015 kalani sitake took a long look at the cougars roster and decided he needed to build depth. Utsa will be played without fans hoge was actually empeys backup at center through fall camp meaning tukuafu only got third team reps there before being called upon last week when it was.

Savanna empey 21 is back from a mission for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints to hamilton new zealand and will be a redshirt freshman goalkeeper on byus nationally prominent womens soccer team. Byus football team and coaches could be forgiven for never wanting to play boise state on the blue turf ever again seeing as how the cougars have never won at albertsons stadium when facing the perennially strong broncos.