NIU's Roster for NCAA 2012 Released

NCAA Football 12 is going to be released this months and EA is hyping the game up by releasing more info about the game little by little until the game is supposed to come out. The exciting thing about their Teambuilder website is the fact that if you go in there and start creating a team, under the roster templates you can find the roster that's going to be in the game already. I put all of the basic info provided on there into an excel file and voila: I present to you the Northern Illinois roster for NCAA Football 2012.

I've taken the basic vitals for each player and made the best guess I could to which player the stats represented (the NCAA doesn't allow real names in the game). I tried to match everybody I could to the current available NIU roster. If you see anything else wrong, please post in the comments.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
QB	12	Chandler Harnish	Sr	6'2" 219	85
QB	14	Jordan Lynch	So	6'1" 212	73	# to 6
QB	3	DeMarcus Grady	Sr	6'1" 303	69	Pos to WR
QB	8	Matt McIntosh	Fr	6'2" 173	54

I think Chandler should be higher, but 85 is fine. He's actually the highest rated player on the whole team! They didn't catch Grady switching to WR.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
HB	15	Jasmin Hopkins	Sr	5'9" 174	74	# to 25
HB	33	Jamal Womble	Jr	5'10" 230	69	# to 5
HB	32	Cameron Bell	Sr	6'2" 242	67	Pos to TE
HB	43	Antione Kirkland	So	5'11" 198	63	Not on team
HB	26	Trevor Jacobs	Fr	6'1" 215	57	Not on team

Here's where things start to get weird. I thought that the last two players were possibly incoming players, but then I looked at the 2010 roster and the numbers and vitals matched up for both Kirkland & Jacobs. So they may not be on the team in real life, but you get them in the game. Yay? This will be a continuing theme as we look at the rest of the roster.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
FB	40	Ross Elliott	So	6'1" 230	61	Not on team
FB	48	Ricky Connors	Fr	6'2" 255	53

Pat McAvoy is a senior, so that should give him precedence over a guy that isn't even on the team anymore...

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
TE	87	Jason Schepler	Sr	6'3" 265	68	Out with ACL
TE	89	Jack Marks	Sr	6'6" 229	64
TE	82	Devonte Majors	Fr	6'2" 221	62

Don't see Adam Coleman anywhere and Adam Kiel is still on the OL (and Bell at RB).

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
WR	81	Nathan Palmer	Sr	5'11" 197	75
WR	10	Willie Clark	Sr	6'1" 206	75
WR	1	Martel Moore	Jr	6'2" 182	75
WR	7	Perez Ashford	Jr	5'10" 180	70
WR	13	Anthony Johnson	So	6'3" 189	66
WR	17	Matt Ng	Jr	6'0" 206	62	Not on team
WR	88	A.J. Sebastiano	Fr	6'1" 185	61
WR	30	Akeem Daniels	So	5'7" 180	59
WR	85	Sam Altman	Fr	6'0" 190	57	Not on team

Pretty good rundown all around until you get to the latter part involving former players.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
LT	62	Trevor Olson	Sr	6'6" 306	81
LT	74	Adam Kiel	Sr	6'5" 308	74	# to 94, Pos to TE
LT	75	Tyler Loos	Fr	6'6" 270	60
LG	70	Logan Pegram	Jr	6'3" 312	72
LG	79	Matt Krempel	So	6'4" 296	65
C	71	Scott Wedige	Sr	6'4" 300	71
C	50	Blake Goodell	Fr	6'4" 298	65	Not on team
RG	72	Joe Pawlak	Sr	6'5" 301	80
RG	66	Matt Battaglia	Jr	6'4" 270	68	Pos to DL
RT	68	Keith Otis	Sr	6'4" 324	75
RT	67	Tyler Pitt	Fr	6'6" 278	62	Pos to DL

Well they got the starters right, which is what counts. Beyond that, there's a lot of things that are wrong. Haven't been following the offensive line as closely as I usually do, so I'll get back to you on this one. Can anybody toss me an OL depth chart?

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
DT	99	Nabal Jefferson	Jr	5'11" 276	74
DT	92	Brian Lawson	Jr	6'3" 268	72
DT	96	Ron Newcomb	Sr	6'3" 283	71
DT	98	Mason Fuller	Fr	6'3" 294	64
DT	51	Zach Anderson	So	6'2" 288	61

Seems pretty good. Only notable thing is that Frank Boenzi got bumped off the (albeit 68-man) roster for Mason Fuller who will probably redshirt his freshman year.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
LE	69	Stephen O'Neal	So	6'4" 232	70
LE	90	Alan Baxter	Jr	6'0" 259	69
LE	91	Anthony Wells	So	6'3" 245	66
RE	95	Sean Progar	Jr	6'3" 255	76
RE	97	Joe Windsor	So	6'1" 225	67
RE	56	Daniel Green	So	6'2" 235	62	Yr to Jr

The defense isn't nearly as screwed up as the offense on NCAA 12.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
LOLB	29	Jordan Delegal	Sr	6'1" 209	74
LOLB	10	Greg Barksdale	So	6'2" 210	71
LOLB	46	George Rainey	So	6'2" 208	60
MLB	9	Devon Butler	Jr	5'11" 224	82	Out for season
MLB	53	Pat Schiller	Sr	6'2" 231	69
MLB	47	Jason Meehan	Fr	6'2" 219	62
ROLB	36	Tyrone Clark	Jr	5'11" 214	80	Ssp for season
ROLB	55	Mike Hellams	Fr	6'1" 220	64
ROLB	41	Videl Nelson	Fr	6'1" 199	63

Congrats - you get to play with zombie Butler & Clark in the game. Pat Schiller's rating should be way higher considering he's a former starter and he should be on the outside. Hellams should be a MLB and no sign of Victor Jacques anywhere. Hmmm.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
FS	20	Tommy Davis	Jr	5'11" 201	80
FS	15	Jimmie Ward	So	6'0" 180	72
SS	25	Tracy Wilson	Sr	6'2" 203	75	Not on team
SS	6	Jody Van Laanen	Jr	6'0" 203	67	Not on team
SS	21	Dechane Durante	Fr	6'2" 195	65

Hello zombie Tracy Wilson and Jody VL. Whatever.

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
CB	11	Rashaan Melvin	Jr	6'2" 186	73
CB	24	Dominique Ware	So	6'0" 180	69
CB	2	Sean Evans	So	5'11" 174	66
CB	1	Donald Smith	Sr	5'9" 176	64	Not on team
CB	18	Rasheen Lemon?	Fr	6'2" 195	60
CB	17	Marckie Hayes	Fr	5'8" 180	55
CB	22	Paris Logan OR Michael Neal	Fr	5'10" 175	52

Fairly normal. Donald Smith is long gone. Also I can't tell who the other guys on the depth chart are considering they all have pretty similar vital stats. Might have a better idea when the game comes out..

Pos	#	RABA Name Est	Yr	Ht/Wt	Rating	Mistakes
K	81	Mathew Sims	So	5'11" 180	81	# to 99
P	78	Ryan Neir	Jr	6'3" 212	78	# to 18

I guess all the kickers have really high ratings in this one otherwise they would miss everything.

Overall, EA messed up pretty bad with this roster. But considering all the mishaps, the starters are for the most part solid (not counting the Clark/Wilson suspensions & Schepler/Butler injuries). If you want to know any of the specific stats, check out the teambuilder website or just ask me to look it up for you in the comments.