Phil Steele's FCS Magazine is out. It's in e-Version only, but if you are a Mercer Football Fan, a SoCon fan, and/or an FCS Fan, you should buy it! Click Here:
Buy Phil Steele's FCS Edition NOW!!! He picks Mercer to finish #6 (hey, he ain't perfect). His selection of WCU (4th) behind Wofford (3rd) is the only 'surprise' in his SoCon Rankings.
I love that he picked an All SoCon Team without all of the 'irregularities' associated with the one that was selected at SoCon Media Day last month. Here are his All SoCon selections with the Mercer Bears Highlighted!
He also ranked players nationally by position. Here are the rankings for the Mercer players I saw.
RB - #17 - Alex Lakes
WR - #53 - Chandler Curtis
TE - #9 - Robert Brown
OG - #32 - Wilson Heres
C - #30 - Kirby Southard
DE - #47 - Tunde Ayinla
DT - #53 - Austin Barrett
LB - #29 - Tosin Aguebor & #35 Tyler Ward
CB - #36 - Alex Avant
KR - #5 - Chandler Curtis
PR - #2 - Chandler Curtis
AP - #3 - Chandler Curtis
NOTE: He also ranked Bret Niederreither @ #27 (I think) in DT's, but he has moved to OL, as has been publicly announced, so I didn't include him in the listings. If he played OT last year, I bet he would have been ranked in that list!