* Players to Watch – DL/OL/P Maverick Long (6-1, 220, Sr.), DL Dustin Noffsinger (5-8, 200, Sr.), OL Dew Gunsinger (Sr.), OL Nick Reier (Sr.), LB Caleb Maurer (6-1, 195, Sr.), DB Wes Wolters (Sr.), RB/LB Cole Furgasen (6-0, 190, Sr.), QB Jay Meyer (6-4, 170, Sr.); RB Gage Beasecker (5-7, 185, Sr.)
* Outlook – The Rockets return eight players who earned All-MAC honors last year in Long, Noffsinger, Gunsinger, Reier, Maurer, Wolters, Fergusen and Meyer. Every year we expect Anna to break out and make a deep postseason push and again this year the ingredients are there. Furgasen and Besecker will log most of the carries after combining for 99 carries, 599 yards and nine TDs last season. Meyer is back after throwing for 1,550 yards and 20 TDs. Defensively, Maurer (85 tackles, eight TFL), Noffsinger (47 tackles, seven TFL) and Long (40 tackles, 10 TFL) are anchors. Head coach Bryan Rioch is 91-32 in 12 years.