Top D1A Freshmen Of The Fall

Top D1A Freshmen Of The Fall

FloRugby picks our top D1A freshmen for the fall season.

Dec 20, 2017 by Alex Goff
Top D1A Freshmen Of The Fall

FloRugby has picked its top freshmen in D1A rugby for this fall.

We have picked a full lineup of 15 players who could take the field right now. This was a strong crop of freshmen, but we did move a couple of players around to make it work. We needed a flyhalf and slotted a center in there who we think can do the job.

We had two excellent scrumhalves on our list, and therefore put the faster one at wing. 

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We chose players from teams that were active through the fall, either playing league games or a large number of independent games. We opted not to consider players from Arkansas State, Saint Mary's, or Life, because they played a small number of games and the meat of their season is in the New Year.

We also opted not to look at sevens players, as that's a different set of criteria, entirely.

Here is our top 15. Tell us yours.

FloRugby's Top D1A Freshmen Of The Fall

Pos.
Player Name
College Team
1
Anthony Adamcheck
Penn State
2
Ben Hoffman
Texas A&M
3
Will Vakalahi
Davenport
4
William Green
Texas A&M
5
Max Ney
Indiana
6
Daniel Trump
Colorado State
7
Joe Rusert-Cuddy
Colorado State
8
Griffin Maat
Baylor
9
Connor Buckley
Iona
10
Michael Jennings
Penn State
11
Deni Makhauri
Northeastern
12
Brian Stella
Penn State
13
Jayden Demmy
Army
14
Luke Persanis
Delaware
15
Josh Smith
St. Bonaventure