American college football season
The 2016 Temple Owls football team represented Temple University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls were led by fourth-year head coach Matt Rhule and played their home games at Lincoln Financial Field. They were members of the East Division of the American Athletic Conference.
On December 6, Rhule resigned to become the head coach at Baylor.[2] Special teams coordinator and tight ends coach Ed Foley led the Owls in the Military Bowl.[3]
Schedule
[4]
Roster
Game summaries
Army
Stony Brook
At Penn State
Charlotte
SMU
At Memphis
At UCF
South Florida
Cincinnati
At UConn
At Tulane
East Carolina
At Navy–American Athletic Championship Game
The Owls dominated a Navy Midshipmen football offense that was ranked in the top 20 in the country, coming off a 75-point offensive outburst the week before to win the first major conference title in Temple history. Temple sent one of its largest away crowds ever, with nearly half the fans in attendance supporting the Owls. Temple was ranked in all three major polls following the game and were invited to the Military Bowl vs Wake Forest Demon Deacons football on December 27, 2016.
Wake Forest–Military Bowl
Awards and honors
American Athletic Conference All-Conference Team
Dion Dawkins, OT
Haason Reddick, DL
Jahad Thomas, RB
Praise Martin-Oguike, DL
Avery Williams, LB
Sean Chandler, S
Aaron Boumerhi, K
Colin Thompson, TE
Stephaun Marshall, LB
[5]
Rankings
NFL players
NFL Draft Combine
Four Temple players were invited to participate in the 2017 NFL Scouting Combine.
† Top performer
2017 NFL Draft
Following the season, the following members of the Temple football team were selected in the 2017 NFL Draft.
[10]
Undrafted free agents
In addition to the draft selections above, the following Temple players signed NFL contracts after the draft.
References
- ^ Newton, David (September 29, 2021). "Carolina Panthers' top-ranked defense reflects 'old-man' strength of Phil Snow". ESPN. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
- ^ "Temple's Matt Rhule to take Baylor head coach job".
- ^ "Ed Foley Named Interim Head Football Coach".
- ^ "2016 Temple Owls Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ^ "Owls Place Nine Players on All-American Athletic Conference Teams".
- ^ "NFL Events: Combine Player Profiles - Jahad Thomas". www.nfl.com. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017.
- ^ "Haason Reddick Stats, News and Video - OLB". NFL.com.
- ^ "NFL Events: Combine Player Profiles - Nate Hairston". www.nfl.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017.
- ^ "Dion Dawkins Stats, News and Video - OT". NFL.com.
- ^ "2017 NFL Draft". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
- ^ Aaron Wilson [@AaronWilson_NFL] (April 29, 2017). "Avery Williams to Texans on undrafted free agent deal, per his agent, David Canter" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Cowboys Nation [@CowboysNation] (April 29, 2017). "Undrafted Temple RB Jahad Thomas is signing with the Cowboys" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Jeff Skversky 6abc [@JeffSkversky] (April 29, 2017). "Temple QB Phillip Walker will sign an Undrafted Rookie Free Agent Deal with the Indianapolis Colts a source tells…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Geoff Collins [@CoachCollins] (April 30, 2017). "GREA'][' 3 days for @Temple_FB at the #NFLDraft @ColinThompsonTU @Romond_Deloatch @coachedfoley" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Martin-Oguike [@MartinPraiseO] (April 29, 2017). "New home! 🙌🏿 Thankful for the opportunity! 🙏🏿 #miami #dolphins" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Colin Thompson [@ColinThompsonTU] (April 29, 2017). "Lets go Giants! Honored to be a NYG! Let's go! @Giants" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
