Football Travels to Monmouth on Saturday – Fordham University Athletics

Rams to face Hawks for first time since 2019

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BRONX, N.Y. –  The Fordham University Rams continue the 2024 season, Fordham’s 124th varsity season, by traveling to West Long Branch, N.J., to take on the Monmouth University Hawks at Kessler Stadium on Saturday, September 28, at 1:00 p.m.
 
The game will be streamed on FloSports with Matt Harmon (p-b-p) and Emory Hunt (analyst) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and wfuvsports.org with Lou Orlando (p-b-p) and Evan Harkin (analyst) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters the game with an 0-4 record after a loss at Dartmouth University last week, while Monmouth enters the contest with a 2-2 record after a 45-42 win at FBS Florida International last Saturday.
 
Saturday’s game will be the fifth meeting between Fordham and Monmouth on the gridiron. The all-time series is tied, 2-2.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• Fordham won the most recent matchup, 52-49, at Monmouth in 2022 as Tim DeMorat completed 34 of 51 passes for 452 yards and tied a school record with six touchdown passes while Fotis Kokosioulis caught a school-record 15 passes for 130 yards and two scores.
 
• The Fordham Rams have thrown the second most touchdown passes of any NCAA FCS school over the past three years.
 
• The Rams threw a school-record 58 scoring strikes in 2022 (56 of those from Tim DeMorat who set a school and Patriot League record), had 26 from quarterback CJ Montes last year, and have three this year for a total of 87.
 
• The 2024 Fordham football squad will play four of its first five, and five of the first seven, games on the road.
 
• The last time the Rams played four of the first five games on the road was 2011.
 
• Fordham senior linebacker James Conway has 386 total tackles, third on the Fordham career list.
 
• Fordham senior running back Julius Loughridge, who has rushed for more than 100 yards in two of his three games of 2024, has 2,280 career rushing yards, eighth on the Fordham all-time rushing list.
 
• Fordham senior linebacker James Conway, senior defensive lineman Matt Jaworski, and junior quarterback CJ Montes were named 2024 Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America Team.
 
• Fordham is represented by six captains in 2024: senior defensive lineman Matt Jaworski, grad student wide receiver Mekai Felton, grad student offensive linemen Ryan Joyce (who is serving as a captain for the second straight year), grad student defensive back Nahil Perkins, and grad student linebacker Mike Courtney.
 
• Two former Fordham football Rams are currently on NFL rosters. Running back Chase Edmonds, who was drafted in the fourth round by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2018 draft, is a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but will miss the 2024 season due to injury while offensive lineman Nick Zakelj, who was selected in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL draft by the San Francisco and enters his third year with the 49ers.