{"id":482157,"date":"2026-10-31T06:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482157\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:52:31","slug":"umass-receiver-dallas-elliott-to-miss-rest-of-season-while-receiving-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482157\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass receiver Dallas Elliott to miss rest of season while receiving cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

UMass wide receiver Dallas Elliott will miss the remainder of the season \u201cafter being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer,\u201d according to coach Joe Harasymiak.<\/p>\n

Harasymiak delivered the news as the Minutemen (4-4) began preparations for Wednesday night\u2019s home game against Ball State. After being one of the feel-good stories of college football in September, UMass had an October to forget, capped by news worse than any four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Elliott, a graduate student from nearby Northampton who attended Williston Northampton, started treatment earlier this week at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, according to Harasymiak.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a local walk-on that has earned a scholarship, earned a starting role, and was the hardest worker on our team to put himself into that,\u201d he said. \u201cHe stuck with us, stuck with this place through some really, really hard times, and now we\u2019re going to do that for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a fighter, if you\u2019ve ever talked to him or met him, there\u2019s no doubt in my mind that he\u2019s going to win this matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"UMassUMass wide receiver Dallas Elliott had six receptions for 58 yards in five games this season.UMass Athletics<\/p>\n

Elliott appeared in the team\u2019s first five games, starting the first three, and had six receptions for 58 yards. Elliott last played in the Oct. 3 loss to Eastern Michigan, the team\u2019s first loss of the season after opening with four straight wins.<\/p>\n

In the season-opening upset of Rutgers<\/a>, Elliott had three receptions for 26 yards, both setting career highs. He had his longest catch in the following week, a 17-yarder, against Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n

Elliott, who was a 2025 Academic All-MAC selection, has made 35 appearances for the Minutemen dating to 2023. He made his first career reception last season at Iowa, finishing the year with three catches, and has six career tackles on special teams.<\/p>\n

Keith Pearson can be reached at keith.pearson@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UMass wide receiver Dallas Elliott will miss the remainder of the season \u201cafter being diagnosed with a rare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-482157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}