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With less than 100 days remaining until the start of the 2026 college football season, rosters across the country are beginning to take shape.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Spend any amount of time at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, and you’ll hear a familiar phrase.  “You can’t have a bad day around

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COLUMBUS — Qua Russaw already has the experience from a top-level college football program that can help him at Ohio State. But he still needed to

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COLUMBUS — Qua Russaw was once a five-star EDGE/linebacker in the recruiting class of 2023. Now Ohio State will take its turn working to get

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Alabama linebacker Qua Russaw has committed to Ohio State out of the NCAA transfer portal, On3 has learned. Russaw was one of the top defensive

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Qua Russaw made headlines earlier on Monday when he entered the Transfer Portal. The former five-star out of Montgomery (Ala.) Carver will leave

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Top programs have quickly reached out to former Alabama EDGE Qua Russaw

Alabama linebacker Qua Russaw has entered the NCAA transfer portal.  Russaw, a redshirt sophomore, appeared in nine games this season and made three

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Alabama OLB Qua Russaw enters NCAA transfer portal

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Qua Russaw was a finalist for Alabama’s Class 6A lineman of the year award as a junior after a season that saw him rack up 130 tackles and more than 27 tackles for a loss. Russaw played his freshman season at Charles Henderson High School in Troy, Ala., before moving to Carver. It was shortly after his freshman year that he landed his first three SEC offers. He said the offers were like "badges of honor" for everything he did to get to this point. "It was amazing," said Russaw, who also runs track and was timed at 11.70 seconds at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds during his sophomore season. "I was waiting for those offers, and I worked so hard to get to this point. It’s hard to put into words. But I also know I have a lot of hard work still ahead. This is just the beginning of a great journey for me and my family."

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Qua Russaw is a rugged, high-energy edge defender with outstanding play speed, particularly in pursuit. The Montgomery (Ala.) Carver standout is a smaller pass rusher at around 6-foot-2, 235 pounds and looks to be a comparable on-field athlete to fellow Alabama native Rashaan Evans at the same stage. Both were highly productive players at the prep level with the ability to rush the passer or eventually settle in as an off-ball linebacker.  

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