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Jersey Number 0
Phoenix Sproles
- Year:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- Wide Receiver
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-11 / 194
- Hometown:
- New Hope, Minn.
- High School:
- Cooper
- Previous:
- North Dakota State
- Major:
- Professional and Continuing Education
2023:
- Honorable Mention All-Sun Belt selection
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Football Team
- National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society
- Played in all 13 games, making 12 starts at wide receiver
- Had 52 receptions for 442 yards and five touchdowns
- Career highs of 11 catches and 99 receiving yards at Coastal Carolina (Nov. 25)
- Made five catches for 55 yards and a career-best two touchdowns vs. Air Forces in Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl (Dec. 23)
- Reeled in seven receptions for 40 yards and first JMU touchdown at Virginia (Sept. 9)
- Tallied six catches for 55 yards at Marshall (Oct. 19)
- Had three grabs for 56 yards with a season-long 32-yard catch vs. Georgia State (Nov. 4)
- Three or more receptions in 10 games, including the final eight games
- Had 50 or more receiving yards in five outings
Prior to JMU:
- Transferred to JMU after spending five seasons at North Dakota State (2018-22)
- Played in 50 career games with 29 starts at receiver
- Had 61 receptions for 888 receiving yards and five touchdowns
- Also rushed seven times for 125 yards and two scores
- Helped Bison to three FCS national championships in 2018, 2019 and 2021
- Played in four games in 2022, making three catches for 29 yards
- Started in 14 of 15 games in 2021, making 20 receptions for 284 yards and two touchdowns
- Played in NSDU’s only game in the fall 2020 before missing entire spring 2021 season
- Started 13 of 15 games in 2019, grabbing 33 catches for 541 yards and two scores while adding 95 rushing yards and two touchdowns
- Scored on a 38-yard touchdown run vs. JMU in 2019 national title game
- Played in 15 games in 2018, making five catches for 34 yards and a touchdown
- NDSU-high six receptions vs. Missouri State (2019)
- NDSU-high 87 receiving yards vs. South Dakota (2021)
- Career-long 75-yard catch vs. South Dakota (2021)
- Career-long 55-yard rush vs. Nicholls (2019)
- Named to Missouri Valley Football Conference Honor Roll four times
- Selected to Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence twice
High School:
- Two-time All-Conference and Special Teams Player of the Year
- Three-year starter at Cooper
- Recorded over 700 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns in his career
- Also had seven career interceptions
- Tallied more than 800 punt-return yards and a touchdown
- Led team to 9-1 record in 2017 and a section championship
- Selected to play in Minnesota Senior All-Star Game
- Dual-sport athlete who also played basketball
- Received academic honors all four years of high school
- National Honor Society member
Personal:
- Son of Efonda Sproles and Chaconas Howard
- Has a brother, Jaxon
- Has three sisters, Sterling, Aeyva and Channell
- Cousin of former Philadelphia Eagles running back Darren Sproles
- His step father, Willie Howard, played for the Minnesota Vikings
- Graduated from North Dakota State with a bachelor’s degree in management communication with a minor in Spanish
- Pursing post-graduate certificate in professional and continuing education at JMU
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