N.C. State’s football players report to camp on Friday and practice begins on Saturday.
The Wolfpack will get to practice 25 times before the season-opener with South Carolina on Sept. 2 in Charlotte.
N.C. State (7-6, 3-5 ACC in 2016) is hoping to build off of a strong finish from 2016 and put together its best team yet under coach Dave Doeren. In order for that to happen, and advance from the 7- and 8-win level under Doeren, these five players will have to step up their games:
1) Ryan Finley
The graduate transfer quarterback, still only a junior in eligibility, turned in a perfectly acceptable 2016 season with 3,059 passing yards (in essentially 12 games) with 18 touchdowns and eight interceptions.