Last night, the NC State Women’s Basketball team kicked off their 2024-25 season, and before the tipoff, a beautiful new banner for last years Final Four was unveiled in the rafters of Reynolds Coliseum.

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Former NC State All-ACC Receiver Jakobi Meyers had 8 catches for 105 yards in the Raiders’ 24-41 loss to the Bengals yesterday, marking the 1st time that Meyers has gone for over 100 yards receiving this season.

This marks the 4th time in Meyers’ NFL career that he has gone over the century mark, and the first time since October 9th, 2022.

Las Vegas – 11/3/2024 – 8 receptions for 105 yards against the Bengals

New England – 10/9/22 – 7 receptions for 111 yards and a touchdown against the Lions

New England – 12/20/20 – 7 receptions for 111 yards against the Dolphins

New England – 11/9/20 – 12 receptions for 169 yards against the Jets

Meyers’ 168 career receptions at NC State rank 7th in school history. Without Thayer Thomas getting an extra year due to the extra Covid-19 season, Meyers would rank 6th. Meyers’ 1,932 career receiving yards rank 10th (would rank 9th).

In 2019, Meyers went undrafted, but was scooped up by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent.

Meyers went from being going undrafted, to signing a 3-year deal worth $33 million with the Raiders prior to the 2023 season. He’s already one of the best former NC State receivers to play in the NFL. Currently, his 3,995 receiving yards are the 6th most every by a former Wolfpack player in the NFL. Meyers’ 345 career receptions and 18 touchdown receptions rank 5th.

Nickel Ja’Had Carter is no longer on NC State’s Football roster.

Carter transferred to NC State this offseason from Ohio State. He entered the season as the starter at Nickel. After starting the first 4 games, he missed the game against Northern Illinois due to injury.

In his absence Redshirt Freshman Tamarcus Cooley started in his place. When he returned for the game against Wake Forest, Cooley still started, and Carter only played in 20 snaps.

This past Saturday, Carter once again didn’t start, and only played in 2 snaps.

After Cooley was ejected due to a targeting call, Redshirt Sophomore Isaiah Crowell came into the game, rather than Carter.

Truth be told, Cooley earned the starting job over Carter. Cooley boasts the highest PFF grade on the Wolfpack defense (73.4), while Carter has third lowest grade (59.5).

Carter played one season at Ohio State, and 3 at Syracuse. He earned All-ACC Honorable Mention in 2022 as a member of the Orange, and earned Freshman All-American honors in his first season.

Since the 2020 season doesn’t count towards your eligibility due to Covid-19, Carter entered this season as a Senior, with his redshirt year still intact. Technically speaking, Carter played in 5 games for the Wolfpack this season, even though he only played in 2 snaps in his final game. According to the letter of the law, he doesn’t have the ability to redshirt this year now. I’m assuming he might try to appeal that, but not sure how that would be handled.

Heading into this weekends contest, NC State is definitely in a vulnerable position at Nickel with Cooley having to sit out the first half due to being ejected for targeting. Crowell filled the void, but those were his first snaps ever besides Special Teams snaps in the past.

It will be interesting to see how NC State handles the Nickel position this Saturday.

Former NC State Defensive Tackle Nick Campbell (6’4″/300) has committed to play for Appalachian St.

COMMITTED🖤💛 @CoachE98 @AppState_FB pic.twitter.com/nCYwTwPgmp

— Nick C (@hawkseighteen) April 29, 2024

Campbell was a 3-Star prospect out of the state of Florida in the Wolfpack’s 2022 recruiting class. 247Sports ranked him as the #45 overall player in the state of Florida in the 2022 class.

In 2022, Campbell played 9 snaps against UCONN, redshirting the season. Last year, the only game he saw action is was against VMI.

Campbell has three years of eligibility remaining.

I’m a little surprised NC State hasn’t added a Nose Tackle out of the Portal yet. With CJ Clark and Nick Campbell transferring, the only two scholarship players at the position are Brandon Cleveland and DJ Jackson. When True Freshman Justin Terrell arrives in the Fall, there will be 3. NC State needs another depth piece at Nose Tackle.

NC State has had 23 players enter the Transfer Portal

NT Nick Campbell – App St.
WR Julian Gray – Liberty
RB Delbert Mimms III – Eastern Michigan
TE Fred Seabrough
Nickel Cecil Powell – Troy
WR Christopher Scott – Austin Peay
OL Jaleel Davis – Florida International
WR Josh Crabtree – Murray St. 
OL Lyndon Cooper – Pitt
WR Terrell Timmons – Colorado
LB Torren Wright – Temple
NT C.J. Clark – Miami
QB MJ Morris – Maryland
S Jakeen Harris – UNC
TE Cedd Seabrough – West Georgia
WR Porter Rooks – Eastern Michigan
DB Nate Evans – Delaware
LB Daejuan Thompson
RB Jordan Houston – Marshall
RB Michael Allen – UNLV
DB Darius Edmundson – UNC-Pembroke
WR Anthony Smith – East Carolina
TE Christopher Toudle – Western Michigan