Get to Know Your Orange Man: #49, TE Jesse Conners

Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports Position: Tight end

Year: (Redshirt) Senior

Height: 6’2”

Weight: 230

Hometown: Pittsford, N.Y.

High School: Salisbury School (Conn.)

2019 Stats: Conners failed to log any stats following a preseason injury.

2020 Projections: With the tight end depth chart pretty loaded up at this point, special teams seems like the best bet for him to get on the field for Syracuse.

How’d He Get Here?: After redshirting as a freshman at Holy Cross, he opted to travel back to New York and walk on for the Orange.

What’d Recruiting Sites Say?: No rating... their loss.

Money Quote: It took Conners’s football career a little longer than most to materialize, per a Syracuse.com article from 2018.

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