With both Ervin Philips and Steve Ishmael graduating this past year, we know the Syracuse Orange football team will be breaking in quite a few inexperienced receivers for 2018.
Despite the attention put toward Ravian Pierce, Devin Butler and others there, though, this year’s surprising breakout player in the passing game may actually come from the backfield — in the form of Dontae Strickland.
In three years at running back, Strickland has hauled in 48 passes for 411 yards and four touchdowns.