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Jersey Number 89
Drew Painter
- Year:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- Tight End
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-3 / 247
- Hometown:
- Hershey, Pa.
- High School:
- Hershey
- Major:
- Kinesiology
2022:
2021:
2020-21:
2019:
2018:
High School:
Personal:
- Played in all 11 games with eight starts at tight end
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Football Team
- Honorable Mention All-Sun Belt Conference selection
- VaSID Second Team All-State
- Had 19 receptions for 221 receiving yards and two touchdowns
- Career-high five catches for 44 yards and a touchdown at Arkansas State (Oct. 8)
- Career-best 49 receiving yards on three grabs at Old Dominion (Nov. 12)
- Scored a touchdown vs. #23 Coastal Carolina (Nov. 26)
- Career-long 31-yard catch vs. Norfolk State
- Had 40+ receiving yards in three games
- Made three or more catches in four games
- Had three receptions over 25 yards
- National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society Membership
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
2021:
- Played in 12 games, making two starts at tight end
- Had four receptions for 57 yards
- Season-long 27-yard catch at William & Mary (Nov. 13)
- Had 11-yard catches vs. Morehead State (Sept. 4) and at Delaware (Oct. 23)
- 2021-22 JMA Highest GPA Award
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
2020-21:
- Played in seven games, making five starts at tight end
- Had two receptions for 22 yards
- Season-long 15-yard catch vs. Morehead State (Feb. 20)
- 2020-21 JMA Highest GPA Award
- Dean's List (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- CAA Football Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
2019:
- Played in all 16 games, making one start at tight end
- Had four receptions for 57 yards and a touchdown
- Season-long, 26-yard reception vs. New Hampshire (Nov. 9)
- Scored first career touchdown on 11-yard catch vs. Monmouth in FCS second round (Dec. 7)
- First career grab on an 11-yarder vs. Saint Francis (Sept. 7)
- Transitioned from defensive line to tight end during Spring 2019 drills
- Dean's List (Fall 2019)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
- CAA Football Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
2018:
- Played in all 13 games, primarily on special teams
- Had two solo tackles vs. William & Mary (Sept. 22)
- First career interception vs. Robert Morris (Sept. 13)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
- CAA Football Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
High School:
- First Team All-Mid-Penn Keystone Conference tight end as a senior and Second Team defensive end as a junior
- Four-year varsity starter
- Started both ways in every game as a junior, tallying 34 receptions for 414 receiving yards and two touchdowns, to go with 5.5 sacks on defense
- Dual-sport athlete who also played basketball
- Started all but one game at tight end as a junior
Personal:
- Son of Mark and Barrie Lynn Painter
- Has two brothers, Dylan and Daniel
- His father played football at Millersville
- His older brother, Dylan, plays basketball and Delaware and previously played at Villanova, winning the 2018 national championship
- Majoring in kinesiology
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