Welcome to Wyoming Football: Mason Drube
LARAMIE -- Wyoming has welcomed nearly 50 new faces this offseason.
Transfer portal era, am I right?
Jay Sawvel knew a rebuild on defense was in order after losing both starting linebackers and safeties, along with leaders like Jordan Bertagnole and DeVonne Harris. The departures of Wrook Brown, Sabastian Harsh and Keany Parks only magnified things.
The second-year head coach got busy, inking a dozen transfers on that side of the ball on February's traditional signing day and adding three more since the annual spring game.
On offense, the damage was limited.
Yes, running back Harrison Waylee is now at Virginia. Young wideout Justin Stevenson is a Utah Ute now, too. But if you ask Sawvel, he kept the players he wanted on offense, beginning with quarterback Kaden Anderson.
Three of the Cowboys' top linemen -- Jack Walsh, Caden Barnett and Wes King -- are also back. So is tight end John Michael Gyllenborg, wide receivers Chris Durr Jr. and Jaylen Sargent, along with leading rusher Sam Scott.
So, without further ado, let's spent the summer meeting the new players that litter this 2025 roster:
NAME | Mason Drube
YEAR | Freshman
HT/WT | 6' 3", 218
HOMETOWN | Gillette, Wyo.
POSITION | Quarterback
JERSEY NUMBER | 7
PREVIOUS SCHOOL | Campbell County
YEARS OF ELIGIBILITY | Four
NOTABLE | Mason Drube threw for 2,434 yards and 23 touchdowns last fall while completing 60% of his passes. The Campbell County signal caller led all of 4A, throwing for more than 240 yards per game. The top-ranked recruit in Wyoming, Drube was courted by the likes of Michigan State, Boston College, Oregon State, Washington State and many, many others. He chose to come to Laramie, where his late father, Kirby Drube, once played tight end for the Cowboys. His sister Gabby is also on the UW Track and Field team. According to 247sports.com, Drube was the No. 52 QB in the country coming out of high school.
QUOTABLE | "We were at a camp in Sacramento and that night I took the staff out to dinner. Mason had called me that day at the camp and told me he was committing, but I said, 'Well, why don't you call tonight when we're at dinner and you can get everybody?' So that was something that I was the only one that really knew. When he did, you know, we kind of passed the phone. Everybody was excited ... I mean, when Mason committed, that was huge. It was a huge, huge thing," -- Jay Sawvel recalling when he heard the top recruit in Wyoming was staying home
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