& MEET THE COLONEL OFFENSE QUARTERBACKS

Waylon Chapman Sophomore 20 6-2 1/2 228 No Letters Jackson, KY Waylon provided backup for Colonel MVP quarterbacl< and co-OVC Offensive Player of the Year Simon Fuentes last season was redshirted in 1996 as a true freshman top game of '97 came vs. UT Martin when he hit 10-18 passes for a caree r high 186 yards and one TD had good spring - practice , running most of the time with the first unit...hit .....1111 8-14 passes for 129 yard~ in the '98 spring game continued to improve his knowledge of the offense made good progress ii) decision making has very strong arm is working on making his release quicker is a tough runner who makes good decisions on the option play came out of spring drills as the No 1 quarterback needs to become more vocal leader of offensive unit.. exper ience is all he is lacking has knack for making big plays led the Bobcats to a 150 record and the Class AA state championship in being named 1995 Class AA Player of the Year passed for 6,023 yards and 88 touchdowns in his high school career. graduate of Breathitt County High School.

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Chad Collins Junior 21 6-0 187 No Letters ... Lake Forest, CA ... Chac:I transferred to EKU in January from Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA made good progress learning the offense in spring practice .is a good leader who has tremendous confidence in his ability has good arm, quick release, very good quickness and speed improved his ability to run llllllllllli... the op_tion will battle for starting position in fall drills was redsh1rted at SaddlebackCollege in 1995 set a Mission Conference record for lowest interception ratio his first year at OCC when he hit 101 - 180 passes for 1,170 yards and six TD's with just two interceptions best game came vs Long Beach City when he completed 2334 passes for 313 yards , the most completions and yardage by an OCC quarterback since 1987 completed 108-200 passes for 1,332 yards and nine TD's last season at OCC career marks there were 209-380 for 2,502 yards and 15 TD's second-team All-Mission Conference Central Division pick in 1997 graduate of Trabuco Hills High School in Mission, Viejo, CA, where his teams went 39-6 in four years there.

Jon Denton .. . Junior . .. 21 ... 6-3 21 O ... No Letters Henderson, NV Jon transfered to Eastern in late July from the University of Nevada -Las Vegas where he had been the starting quarterback for the past two seasons threw for 6,177 yards and 43 touchdowns in his two seasons at -UNLV holds 10 NCAA passing records also holds 11 other UNL V records was selected as Western Athletic Conference Pacific Division Freshman of the Year in 1996 hit 277-506 passes his freshman year for 3,591 yards and 25 TD 's, while completing 199-374 passes for 2,586 yards and 18 touchdowns as a sophomore closed his UNLV career with a string of 19 consecutive games in which he threw at least one TD pass top collegiate game in 1996 against San Diego State when he hit 2753 passes for 503 yards and four touchdowns his 25 touchdown passes as a freshman broke the NCAA freshman record set by Florida's Danny Wuerffel in 1993 he is rated by ESPN's National Football League analyst, college scouting expert and NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper, Jr., as the nation's No. 3 junior quarterback behind Kentucky's Tim Couch and Washington's Brock Huard led the WAC and was 10th in the nation in total offense with 287. 9 yard per game as a freshman second-team All WAC as a freshman after starting all 12 games three-time WAC Player of the Week has had 17 200-yard plus games and nine 300yard plus contests in his college career. tough competitor who not only can hurt you with the pass but can scramble too scored three rushing TD's as a freshman, including a 30-yard scramble at BYU threw for three long TD 's with an 82-yarder vs. San Diego State, 80-yarder vs. TCU and 75-yarder against SDSU firstteam All-State, All-Southern quarterback his senior season of high school where he directed his team to an 11-1 record and a spot in the state finals threw for 1,721 yards and 21 touchdowns with only 1O interceptions his senior year. made first-team All - Sunrise Division as senior after making second-team the year before selected to the Southern AAA All-Star Team and Nevada State All-Star Team passed for 965 yards and 11 scores as ajunior. also played basketball for the Gators and helped his team win the Southern AAA championship with his 15 0 ppg. average scholar athlete and member of high school's honor roll. enjoys playing basketball and fishing picked EKU because of its winning tradition and having a legitimate shot at winning a national championship will be a law enforcement major at EKU graduate of Green Valley High School. s by a Freshman - Garn bya Freshm a.n - Ga.foe

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