FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno State Bulldogs returned to football practice Tuesday, Aug. 4th, as temperatures climbed through the 90’s and shouts of joy echoed through warmups and drills.<\/p>\n
The players were excited to hit the field after more than 3 months since their last practice, the Spring Preview on April 25th.<\/p>\n
“A lot of guys were telling me they barely slept,” said senior nickelback Simeon Harris. “They kept thinking they were going to wake up late.”<\/p>\n
Fall camp consists of 20 practices, and head coach Matt Entz says he will name a starting quarterback no later than Practice #17.<\/p>\n
Maryland transfer Khristian Martin and Clovis native Jayden Mandal are competing for that job. Whoever starts will have plenty of help from a robust running back room.<\/p>\n
However, Entz said after practice Tuesday that RB Brandon Ramirez and offensive lineman Edward Fonua, who started all 13 games at left guard last year, will miss the entire 2026 season due to offseason injuries.<\/p>\n
The 2nd-year head coach of the Bulldogs also explained a new approach to leadership that empowers his 23 seniors on the team. Find out what it is, in the story above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno State Bulldogs returned to football practice Tuesday, Aug. 4th, as temperatures climbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-424634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}