The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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TRACKING THE PACK 18 ■ THE WOLFPACKER NUMBERS AND QUOTES Sponsored by Colony Tire & Service www.colonytire.com PHOTO COURTESY PITTSBURGH STEELERS 10 Pro Bowl appearances by former Wolfpack quarterback RUSSELL WILSON, now with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wilson was named to the postseason all-star game after Buf- falo's Josh Allen opted out due to an injury. Wilson's 10 appearances in the event are the fifth-most of any quarterback in NFL history. 16th NC State's ranking in Baseball America's preseason poll. Noting that the Wolf- pack ended its 2024 season in the Col- lege World Series, writer Jacob Rudner says coach ELLIOTT AVENT'S team is a contender for a return trip to Omaha: "Avent has guided the program to no fewer than 35 wins in the last nine full seasons and expects to have a shot at another run in 2025." 1,027 Receiving yards by Jakobi Meyers during the 2024 NFL season. Meyers, who starred for NC State from 2016-18 before entering the league as an undrafted free agent in 2019, caught 87 passes in 15 games for the Las Ve- gas Raiders. It was the most productive of his six NFL seasons, and only the 11th 1,000-yard receiving season ever by an undrafted player. " He's really dialed in on football. He loves winning. He has a big passion, a big heart for football. He loves hard because he wants the best out of you. When he's coming at you, it looks like he's mean and aggressive, but in reality he wants the best out of you." — Former Temple linebacker Layton Jordan, who played for D.J. Eliot when the recently hired NC State defensive coordinator was with the Owls in 2022 " I've been here a couple of times. I know, as an opposing coach, I was going to have to deal with it. I could feel the electricity. I could feel the energy. I could feel the fans. [Opponents are] not just playing us in this stadium. They're playing everybody, because they can feel them. … And when that happens, what a weapon." — Former UNC assistant coach Charlton Warren on the game-day environment at Carter-Finley Stadium, which will be working in his favor now that he's joined NC State's staff as co-defensive coordinator PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE ATHLETICS PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE ATHLETICS 4:25.54 KATELYN TUOHY'S time in the mile at the Dr. Sander Scorcher Jan. 26 in New York. The former NC State track and cross coun- try national champion turned in the top time in the world for the women's indoor mile this season, holding off Oregon's Wilma Nielsen in the pro-elite race at The Armory.