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2016 Football

7 Raleigh Yeldell

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 175
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Edgefield, S.C.

Biography

16 career touchdown carries ranks ninth in school history and tops amongst Newberry quarterbacks... 1,196 rushing yards is a Newberry quarterback career record...

[2015 stats]
[2014 stats]
[2013 stats]

2015

All-South Atlantic Conference Second Team... ECAC All-Star Honorable Mention... Don Hansen's Football Gazette all-Super Region II third team...

Played in nine games with eight starts... Completed 139-of-225 passes for 1,504 yards with 13 touchdowns and five interceptions... Also carried the ball 78 times for 399 yards and six touchdowns...

at Florida Tech (Sept. 5) - 16-of-30 passing for 149 yards and a touchdown... 15 carries for 113 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner with 34 seconds remaining... Also had a 26-yard reception...

vs. Jacksonville (Sept. 12) - 6-of-11 passing for 32 yards... five carries for 14 yards... left the game due to injury...

vs. Mars Hill (Oct. 10) - returned to action after missing three complete games... removed precautionarily due to extreme wet conditions returning from injury... Had three carries for 14 yards... Completed 2-of-11 passes for 17 yards and an interception...

at Carson-Newman (Oct. 17) - continued success against the Eagles... carried the ball 11 times for 64 yards and two touchdowns... Also completed 26-of-39 passes for 269 yards...

vs. Brevard (Oct. 24) - Completed 24-of-28 passes for career highs of  279 yards and five touchdowns... Ties for third-most touchdown passes in a game in school history... Completed his final 16 pass attempts... Earned Corvias ECAC Division II Offensive Player of the Week honors...

at Lenoir-Rhyne (Oct. 31) - Completed 18-of-25 passes for 265 yards and four touchdowns with an interception... Also had 10 carries for 57 yards and a reception for 27 yards... Earned South Atlantic Conference AstroTurf Offensive Player of the Week...

vs. Limestone (Nov. 7) - Completed 17-of-25 passes for 238 yards and three touchdowns... Carried the ball eight times for 21 yards...

at Wingate (Nov. 14) - Completed 19-of-28 passes for 212 yards... Had no touchdown passes, but carried the ball 12 times for 61 yards and two scores... 

at North Alabama (Nov. 21) - Completed 11-of-28 passes for only 50 yards with three interceptions... Carried the ball 13 times for 53 yards...

2014

Played in nine games, getting the starting nod three times... Completed 28-of-42 passes for 300 yards with four touchdowns and two interceptions... Season-best of 9-of-12 at Brevard (Nov. 1) with 128 yards and a touchdown... Was ultra-efficient in first quarter vs. Carson-Newman (Nov. 8) before being removed from the game due to injury... Completed 5-of-7 passes for 65 yards and three touchdowns, also carrying the ball five times for 47 yards and a score... Carried the basll 62 times for 264 yards and two touchdowns on the season...

2013

Played in 12 games... Had 92 rushing attempts for 533 yards and eight touchdowns... Went 54-for-87 with three touchdowns for 608 yards and two picks... Went 13-for-26 with 161 yards passing along with 20 rushes for 101 yards and two touchdowns against Carson-Newman (Nov. 9)... First Newberry quarterback to lead team in rushing since Mazzie Drummond in 2003...

Prior to Newberry

Region offensive player of the year as a senior... Team was AA Upper State Finalist... North-South All-Star... Division I-AA All-State by the High School Sports Report...

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 7

    2013Sophomore

    QB
    6'0" 175 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2014Sophomore

    QB
    6'0" 175 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2015Junior

    QB
    6'0" 175 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2016Senior

    QB
    6'0" 175 lbs
    7